Beginners 360 Degree Photo Virtual Tours With Drones

In this lecture we'll talk a little about 360 Degree Virtual Tours in general.  Often when people think of 360 tours they immediately think of real estate tours.  But in this class we'll learn that we can take our 360 Photo tours beyond the limits of a home for sale.  Using our drones, we can create tours that span recreation locations, business locations, construction locations, and more!

In this video we'll take a look at part of a 360 Degree outdoor tour, and what went into creating it.  Please keep in mind, we're using a Mavic 2 Pro for capturing our tour images, and your setup may be a little different based on the type of drone you're using.  This isn't a class on drone setup, it's an over view on how these virtual tours come together using our drones.

In this lecture we're going to go to a flight location and setup the Mavic 2 Pro for capturing 360 degree photos.  We'll quickly see some of the settings required to capture images to build a 360.  And we will see 1 image captured while flying the drone for our 360 tour.

We've captured our images, so now it's time to see what we got.  Students will see that the automated panorama mode in the Mavic 2 Pro created images that are almost web ready right out of the drone.  Of course we can take things further and edit the RAW images for additional "wow factor" if needed using PTGui and Lightroom.

In this lecture we're going to take a 360 image created from the DNGs my Mavic 2 Pro captured and talk a little about the types of post processing you can do with the images we stitched together from our flight.

In this talk we're going to review what we've seen in the course.  At this point I hope students are getting ideas for their own unique aerial tours, and maybe some ideas as how they could monetize their drone virtual tours as well.  It's also possible to create mixed tours that showcase locations from the air, and on the ground.  Virtual tours can even include video and audio as well. 

Now it's time for you to start planning our your own virtual tours for fun and potentially for profit as well.

In this final video we'll see one more 360 image associated with a high value raw land site for sale in the Prescott area.  Aerial 360s can be valuable for such sites.  Finally, we'll wrap things up, and let you know how you can keep up with what we're doing in our drone / imaging business through our weekly live streams and main website.  Thanks for being part of this short course!