Virtually, tours

Here is an app that helps school children design virtual tours on their own. ‘Tour Creator’, an app by Google lets users create their own VR tour with Google’s Street View images or 360-degree photos. The editor’s note on the Google blog says that the arrival of the new app on Teacher Appreciation Week is to highlight the ways in which Google is supporting teachers. The app would work with Google Cardboard and Expeditions.

“Since 2015, Google Expeditions has brought more than 3 million students to places like the Burj Khalifa, Antarctica, and Machu Picchu with virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Both teachers and students have told us that they’d love to have a way to share their own experiences in VR,” the blog post explains about the reason behind Tour Creator.

One can create tours by following these simple steps. First, you have to assign the tour a name and upload a cover photo. In the next level, you have to utilise Google Maps to find any place of interest or simply upload the 360-degree pictures of your tour scenes. You can also add buttons so that details on the photo can be learned. On completing this, you can publish the tour in Poly, the library of 3D content, embed it into any website or check it out with Expeditions. Google is also planning to get these videos uploaded into Expeditions.