Creating Immersive Virtual Tours  With Google Tools

Session Overview

• Overview of Google Street View
  • How Google Collects Imagery
  • How and Why We Collect Imagery
  • How YOU Can Collect Imagery
• Extending Uses
• Hands On Session 

Google Maps

Street View

 Google Cars

Trekkers

Tricycle

Snowmobiles?!!!?

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Geo for Good Summit

“Google Earth Outreach gives nonprofits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to hundreds of millions of people.”

Menokin

Poplar Forest

Anne Spencer House

How EV Collects Imagery

• Official Google Professional Way
  • DSLR
  • Fisheye Lens
  • Google Business Photo Tools
• DIY  
  • Creation
    • Photo Sphere with phone
    • DSLR/Fisheye Lens (image stitching software, PTGui)
  • Publication
    • Google Views
    • 360cities.net

How This Effort Adds Value to EV and Humanities Partners

• Expands modes of access to history
• Facilitates discovery of Virginia's historical places
• "Preservation"
• Spreads knowledge to partners
• Promotes innovation

Enhancing EV Content

Expanding Access: "See Inside"

The Immersive Experience

"Preserving" Virginia

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Sherwood Forest, Fredericksburg

Expanding Virtual Tours

Sites Captured

How You Can Collect Imagery

• Partner with us!
  • Ideally needs to fit with EV's content and mission
  • Integrate with EV content
• Partner with Google  
  • They send their team to do it
  • Site prioritization and significance
• Hire (i.e. pay) a Google Trusted Photographer
• DIY!
  • Device: phone or camera
  • Production software (e.g. PTGui)
  • Publication platform (e.g. Google Views or 360cities)