May 12, 2014
Motocross racing is not for the faint of hearted.
Every Sunday, Docklands Riders teaches youngsters from the age of just 6 years old to race round the motocross track in the heart of the London Docklands area. Continue Reading
Apr 15, 2014
Capital Karts offers the UKs longest Go Kart track. By mounting our 360 degree video camera on the front of the kart’s bumper, we were able to offer an intimate view from the drivers perspective.
Below is footage at the Virtual Reality meetup group in London, where we showcased the 360 degree video using a head mounted display called the Oculus Rift.
Mar 10, 2014
We first started working with Sheffield University back in 2012, when we made the University the first in the UK to offer prospective students the option to view their campus in Google Street View. Since then, we have been photographing more and more of the University’s buildings and are preparing to bring all of the imagery together into an interactive map.
Feb 27, 2014
In what was certainly an interesting venue to photograph, Thames Clippers, the main boat service in London, invited the public to see inside one of their vessels. Continue Reading
Feb 27, 2014
We are very excited to announce that panoramas with social tagging capabilities are now fully compatible with mobile devices.
Otherwise known as Gigatag or Panotag images, Gigapixel images with ‘Social Tagging’ allow users to tag themselves at live crowd events with Facebook, Twitter or email. For example, when a user chooses to tag themselves in a panorama, a message is sent to their Facebook timeline to share the event with their friends and to say ‘I was there!’. Continue Reading
Feb 24, 2014
To mark the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Press Association invited readers to interact with images from the red carpet Continue Reading
Jan 26, 2014
The Oculus Rift first entered the public eye back in August 2012 when a kickstarter campaign shot it into the public eye, successfully raising over $2 Million, which was needed to manufacture the device.
For thoses who don’t know, the Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that users can wear just like a pair of ski goggles, which provide an immersive experience like no other. Below is the promotional video which they used in their original Kickstarter pitch.
Jan 20, 2014
The University of Birmingham needed a way to attract prospective students to their newly refurbished department of Dental Sciences so commissioned Business Tours UK to create a bespoke interactive 360 degree virtual tour.
Designed to provide an effortless viewing experience across desktop, smartphone and tablet devices, interactive ‘hotspots’ were used to provide additional information whilst browsing the imagery. Continue Reading
Nov 03, 2013
Tuxford Academy got in touch with the task of producing an entire school photograph, indoors, inside limited space of school hall.
Our solution was to photograph the entire school in 12 sections, photographing several hundred students at a time, before stitching together the 12 sections to create the final image.
Oct 23, 2013
To help reach more fans through Facebook, Business Tours UK designed and created a custom Facebook application to showcase the Google Business Views we had created for Newbury Corn Exchange, a theatre in Berkshire. Continue Reading
