How To Make A Virtual Tour // 5 Simple Steps

How do you make a virtual tour… in 2022? In this video, I’ll cover the most up-to-date gear recommendations, shooting techniques & 360 editing workflows for professional virtual tours. Big thanks to Ricoh for sponsoring this video, however, all opinions & recommendations within are 100% my own.

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🕑 TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
0:33 How "Professional" should your tours be?
1:32 Which camera & gear do you need?
3:48 Which settings should you use?
4:19 How many shots do you need?
5:49 Which editing software should you use?
7:04 Building your virtual tour

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[mohanadhamed]

Thank you for adding the Arabic translation

[waynemorris]

You are so right about using the correct gear for the specific "use case"!

[photographybygeorge]

Thank you Ben. The best "how to" V tour tutorial on YT👍👍👏

[JeffWhiting]

Great tips, Ben! I need a new 360 camera soon. I've been using the Topaz suite for my drone photos and it's been amazing.

[SuperBluesky]

thank you very much. the best explanations that I found in you tube. easy and simple !!!

[marchinz]

thank you very much... very nice video

[paulmontague]

Another great video, Ben - thank you. Looking forward to your upcoming vid on software choices!

[carriee.greene]

Thank you for this video, very helpful!

[tededwards]

Thank you so much! I guess I know what I will be doing next year 😁

[klezovich_sergey]

Ben, can you tell me which camera you would recommend at this point in time (late 2023)? Thanks for the info and for your work!👍

[BlueScreenOfDead]

As for anffinity photo, there is a 50% off, .
i tinkered around with it, and it does that what most photo editors dont do, i can do workflow in a 360 mode !

[chadelosreyes]

The only 360 camera i can buy here in the Philippines is the insta 360 one x2. I'm not really sure if its enough though. Would you recommend that action camera for vr tour vs the mobile phone?

[dpiralis]

How do you share the 3D virtual tour in a sales and rental website? Do you add a link in the description and it users will be redirected to other platform, or many rental websites support those file formats?

[thevideoark]

Excellent video guide and very helpful as always. Please be aware that the first 2 product links do not come up as you list. I never checked the others. It may be because I’m in the UK.
Many thanks again.

[fooook]

Where I live, get a Bushman Monopod it's almost impossible (and price is quite high), same for a lot of others monopods that were recommended on various Youtube videos. So I got a Theta Z1 (700 euro used on Amazon Warehouse and it's like new!) and paired it with an
iFootage Cobra 2 Strike II. Love it so far, because is a strong, heavy monopod with an amazing release mechanism, but yes, it's quite "thic" and has a big head like a tripod. For Matterport it makes absoutely no difference at all (cause Matterport create a very big blurred nadir) but for others Virtual Tours software and stand alone shooting, the head it's visible, but it perfectly hides the feet of the monopod :D. Thanks for these vids Ben, you're helping me a lot!

P.S. Theta Z1 has the awesome dual fisheye plugin that work like a charm! Of course not usable with Matterport (I hope matterport will improve their HDR algorithm) but for stand alone pics it's amazing!

P.P.S. Do you have any recommendation for an hand held stick for the Z1? Thank you!

[italogiardina]

Enticing selection of material that might enhance and even supplement the LinkedIn course material on virtual tours and on panorama 360 that is a bit geeky .

[milantiquestudios]

Researching this for my job and it doesn't seem that hard. Just need to right camera and software and you can get the job done. Which like you said there is no shortage of options. Makes me wonder if I could do this for a side hustle. Is this a lucrative venture?

[evielknievel]

What is the easiest way and software to send a whole house tour to real estate agents? I want to start doing this.

[lakshbiyani]

hello ben,
Firstly amazing video you have made.
I wanted to know that can I shoot a 360 Tour with my gopro Hero 9

[JoscelinTrouwborst]

Good quick overview Ben. Which is that rotator?