Tour de Bahria

Abstract

Digital tours are an important part of the modern travel movement. They are a way for people to view and discover a place that exists in reality as a physical space through the Internet. Time, distance, working responsibilities, or finances can prevent you from visiting any university campus before making a university decision. Many universities have mastered the art of virtual visits in recent years. The importance of employing this technique is to obtain a panoramic view of the campus. The main goal of this project is to create a computer-generated environment that mimics the real world and engages all of a person's senses using Virtual Reality. We developed our projects using Kuula, Samsung Gear 360 Camera and some editing and web development softwares. We set a starting point to captured around 2 – 3 images of 360° in different angles. When the shoot was completed, the images were stitched and at the end, the site was developed. The users have free access to the site and they are easily able to have a virtual tour of the campus. It has pin points to the main areas of the campus and by clicking that, the users can directly jump to those areas. And an information bubble is provided outside all of the professors’ cabins depicting the availability hours and some educational/professional achievements of the teachers.