Beginners Guide To Making 360 Virtual Tours With Kuula
Welcome to our first course on 360 Degree Pano and Virtual Tour hosting companies. We're going to be starting out with a personal favorite provider, Kuula.
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Welcome to our first course on 360 Degree Pano and Virtual Tour hosting companies. We're going to be starting out with a personal favorite provider, Kuula.
Welcome to our first course on 360 Degree Pano and Virtual Tour hosting companies. We're going to be starting out with a personal favorite provider, Kuula.
As virtual tours continue to expand in the imaging market space, some 360 Pano tools offer a great deal of features, and others not so much. Kuula is a great "mid-range" 360 hosting platform that offers a lot of features at a reasonable price. And users are welcome to start a free account today that still offers a robust set of tools.
With its ease of setup, and wide variety of tools, I'd say Kuula is a great choice for 360 photographers just starting out, and even more seasoned 360 photographers as well. Pulling 360 Degree Virtual Tours together with Kuula is relatively straight forward. Not too complex, but still offering a wide array of features for users. In addition, the final export formats offered by Kuula means users can create tours for Real Estate and MLS listings, and offer features that go beyond just Real Estate tours.
Please Note: This is not a class on shooting 360 panos, or on editing the initial images out of your camera. This class is all about creating and sharing your tours. Students should have some prior knowledge of 360 degree photography in order to get the most out of this class.
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Learning objectives
- We'll start with uploading our 360 images to kuula
- Students will be showed the overall kuula interface
- We'll build a tour from start to finish with interior 360s of an empty home for sale
- Students will learn how to link one scene to the next
- Students will see the additional features offered by kuula
- We'll check out the "walk through" mode and the "click anywhere" mode.
- Students will be shown the wide variety of sharing options for a final virtual tour, including and mls setting for real estate sales
- We'll start with uploading our 360 images to kuula
- Students will be showed the overall kuula interface
- We'll build a tour from start to finish with interior 360s of an empty home for sale
- Students will learn how to link one scene to the next
- Students will see the additional features offered by kuula
- We'll check out the "walk through" mode and the "click anywhere" mode.
- Students will be shown the wide variety of sharing options for a final virtual tour, including and mls setting for real estate sales
Syllabus
Students will learn about Kuula's Interface, getting images on to the platform, and developing 360 Degree Virtual Tours with Kuula. This 360 hosting service will be covered fully.
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Syllabus
In this first lecture we'll be setting up our topic for this course. Students should look forward to seeing a full home tour come together with Kuula.
Also, take note. We've included the images from this tour for your own testing purposes. Have fun!
Before we start building a tour with Kuula we're going to talk a little about the 360 degree web host.
In this video we'll begin to build our virtual tour with Kuula. First, we've got to get some 360 images uploaded to the service! So we'll be doing that in this video.
Once images are uploaded and our new tour is posted, we'll find ourselves in the tour editor. Each image will be displayed on a filmstrip at the bottom of the builder window, and users can go from scene to scene in order to edit their final tour. The bigger the tour you're making, the longer this process will take.
One of the key features of virtual tour hosts is the fact that we can link from one scene to the next. Also, we can add multiple links from each scene to multiple other scenes. How the tour and the links are fashioned are directly up to the user. One link at a time from each scene, or multiple links in each scene to others.... It's all up to how you want your tour to flow!
The linking process takes some time. In this video we'll continue linking our scenes, and we'll talk about how we're choosing to order the images we're sharing.
Kuula retains the order we uploaded our photos in. Sometimes we'd like to rearrange where images are in our film strip, and we can do that quite easily with Kuula. We're also able to change our starting scene, which allows a lot of flexibility when it comest to showcasing our "must see" scenes before we offer up some of the more mundane scenes.
We've built our tour's structure, so now let's take a look at the flow of the tour. Does it make sense? Are we directing viewers easily from one scene to the next? How does the "Walk Through" mode help us out? Is this easy enough to use for everyone?
Not only does Kuula offer a "Walk Through" mode, it also offers a "Click Anywhere" mode. If users fail to click right on to one of our link images, Click Anywhere will still get the idea of where the viewer wanted to go, and it will progress into the next scene. Be careful, Click Anywhere might require some fine tuning of where you place your links if there are multiple ones in the scene.
We're not building our 360 tours in a vacuum. We want to share these tours. And Kuula offers multiple options for sharing our 360 Degree Virtual tours with the world.
In this video we're wrapping up our time with Kuula. Now it's time for you to get out there and start testing Kuula for yourself. They offer free accounts that have many of the features in their paid solutions. It might be the free account is all you need. But to be sure, you'll need to take some time to give the service a test run!
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Activities
Practice creating and editing 360-degree tours on Kuula
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Provides repeated opportunities to apply Kuula's features and enhance your proficiency in creating and editing 360-degree tours.
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Create multiple tours using different linking options and embed links.
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Experiment with different settings to customize the appearance and functionality of your tours.
Practice using the 'Walk Through' and 'Click Anywhere' modes in Kuula
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Improves navigation skills within 360-degree tours, ensuring a seamless user experience for tour viewers.
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Experiment with the 'Walk Through' mode to simulate a natural walkthrough experience.
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Test the 'Click Anywhere' mode to allow users to navigate tours with ease.
Write a blog post or article about your experience using Kuula
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Enhances understanding of Kuula's features by requiring you to articulate your knowledge in a written format.
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Choose a specific aspect of Kuula to focus on.
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Write a clear and concise blog post or article.
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Share your post or article with others and encourage feedback.
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Develop a presentation about the benefits of using 360-degree tours for real estate marketing
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Applies course knowledge to a real-world application, demonstrating the value of 360-degree tours in the real estate industry.
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Research the benefits of 360-degree tours for real estate marketing.
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Create a visually appealing presentation.
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Practice your presentation and deliver it confidently.
Practice creating and editing 360-degree tours on Kuula
Show steps
Provides repeated opportunities to apply Kuula's features and enhance your proficiency in creating and editing 360-degree tours.
Show steps
- Create multiple tours using different linking options and embed links.
- Experiment with different settings to customize the appearance and functionality of your tours.
Practice using the 'Walk Through' and 'Click Anywhere' modes in Kuula
Show steps
Improves navigation skills within 360-degree tours, ensuring a seamless user experience for tour viewers.
Show steps
- Experiment with the 'Walk Through' mode to simulate a natural walkthrough experience.
- Test the 'Click Anywhere' mode to allow users to navigate tours with ease.
Write a blog post or article about your experience using Kuula
Show steps
Enhances understanding of Kuula's features by requiring you to articulate your knowledge in a written format.
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- Choose a specific aspect of Kuula to focus on.
- Write a clear and concise blog post or article.
- Share your post or article with others and encourage feedback.
Develop a presentation about the benefits of using 360-degree tours for real estate marketing
Show steps
Applies course knowledge to a real-world application, demonstrating the value of 360-degree tours in the real estate industry.
Browse courses on
Real Estate Marketing
Show steps
- Research the benefits of 360-degree tours for real estate marketing.
- Create a visually appealing presentation.
- Practice your presentation and deliver it confidently.
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