Beginners Guide To Making 360 Virtual Tours With Kuula

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!