360 Photos and Virtual Tours

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 360° photos and virtual tours Overview
• 360° photos and virtual tours Guidelines
• Getting Started: Adding 360° photos to Driftscape
• Support for other virtual tour platforms

360° photos and virtual tours Overview

You can add 360° photos and virtual tours hosted by our providers into the media gallery for any POI, tour stop, or quest stop. 

Simply create 360° photos and tours, copy the shared link/URL, and add to Driftscape as a video media item to any POI. These are added to the gallery for the POI, which allows the user to pan and explore the photo or virtual tour on their phone orDriftscape for Web.

360° photos and virtual tours Guidelines

Driftscape supports 360° photos and virtual tours with Kuula (Kuula.co), Matterport (www.matterport.com) and iGuide (https://goiguide.com/). 

Kuula.co is an affordable paid subscription platform for creating and hosting 360° photos and virtual tours. You can create these from panoramic photos on your phone, or by using specialized photo capture devices. You can start with a free Kuula account to get started and experiment with 360° photos in Driftscape. Paid plans include unlimited uploads with public and private shareable virtual tours and photos. 

To learn more: Creating 360° photos in Kuula.

To learn more: Creating Virtual Tours in Kuula. 

Getting Started: Adding 360° photos to Driftscape

Log into the Driftscape CMS using your provided credentials.

Click on ‘ORG CONTENT’ and then under ‘Name’ click on the Organization that you want to add 360° photos to:

Under the ‘Title’ column [and NOT the ‘Edit’ column], choose the POI that you want to add 360° photos to:

Click on either ‘EDIT MEDIA’[if other media already exists for this POI] OR ‘ADD A MEDIA ITEM’ [if it’s the first time an audio/image/video is being added to this POI]:

Add a ‘Caption’

Change the ‘Media Type’ option to ‘Video’

Enter the ‘Video link’

Open the ‘Visible in Gallery?’ dropdown menu and set it to ‘Yes’

Click on ‘ADD’ to add the 360° photo.

When you view the POI in Driftscape (mobile or web), the photo is available in the gallery and the user can move the photo around for viewing.

Here’s the 360° photo in Driftscape for iOS:

Here’s the 360° photo in Driftscape for Web:

Support for other virtual tour platforms

Much like we limit video support to Youtube and Vimeo, we similarly limit support for virtual tours since custom integration is required.

If you have a preferred virtual tour platform that supports embeddable links, you can try it in Driftscape, but we only officially support those listed above at this time.