Scarborough360 Website using KRPano

designsubway

Hi all
I just wanted to share my latest krpano project with you. It's called Scarborough360 and makes extensive use of KRPano in order to take the user on a virtual tour of Scarborough in England.
Let me know what you think.
David

Tim2420

nice website and krpano use maybe you should have a full screen button so people can enjoy it more.

good job

what did you use for the platform was it wordpress ?

loved the whitby one

andrew22222

Hey, I use to live in York. Been to Scarborough many times.

What made you choose not to include the down shot in your panoramas? Seems a shame really especially as it looks as though you are going to start off a large catalog of images of NE Yorkshire on multiple websites. Give that other 'VR' site some competition as they already have many locations covered but with low resolution shots. You could offer that extra quality?

Just thinking of business opportunities as it's always hard to start making money out of virtual tours

designsubway

Hi

We use a professional photographer to take the images (David Chalmers) and he also stitches the images - one reason for not including the down-shot is beacuse of the time it would take to photoshop the tripod, David obviously has other projects on the go as well. We do have some panos where the tripod has be photoshopped out but for consistancy we have decided to keep all of the panos the same. This could be something we address in the future. Technically we realise that it is always nice to see the down-shot however from a user point of view we had many comments regarding feeling queasy when the user is effectively looking at their feet and spinning round. The site is trying to be accessible to all and whilst you or I may want to see the down-shot, most users would not.

The first aim of the site is simply to show of Scarborough but the site also works as a show-piece for our graphic and web design company called Betton Design where we offer virtual tours for sale to companies who require them, mostly service industry clients (hotels, restaurants, etc).

We wanted to create something which was better than what was already available - we feel we have done it especially with our new redesign. The site has been created using html, javascript and php rather than wordpress.

I hope that answers your questions and thank you very much for your comments and kind words - we really do appreciate your feedback.

Cheers.

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