- Making a virtual tour
- Creating a Virtual Tour Using Kuula:
- Hosting Your Virtual Tour on Tiiny.host:
- Share your tour’s unique Tiiny.host weblink
- Next steps
- FAQ: Virtual Tour Hosting
Virtual tour hosting puts your website’s visitors directly into your world.
Think Google Maps Street View. You travel through the 360-degree space around you, seeing the streets, buildings, trees, cars… everything in that world when the tour was photographed.
You may want to share a similar experience using a space of your choice.
As the virtual tour technology improves, creating an immersive 3D experience is getting easier and easier.
Put an interactive virtual tour on your own website. Share the inside of a home for sale, a building you love, or a space you want someone to see.
Kuula is software to make virtual tours. Kuula has a free tier with professional features.
Tiiny.host is a simple web hosting service that supports virtual tours. Tiiny.host has a free tier with professional features.
Combining these two creates the perfect way to experiment or launch your virtual tour without cost.
This article shows you how.
Let’s go.
Making a virtual tour
Virtual tours are typically created using a series of interconnected 360-degree photographs or videos. They offer a panoramic view of locations, often enhanced with clickable hotspots that provide additional information, multimedia content, or links to other views.
You don’t have to invest in an expensive camera to proceed.
Professional 360-degree cameras are available for purchase. But most modern smartphones can take panoramic pictures, which can easily be used to make your tour.
The process is straightforward: take your pictures (or video), upload them to the virtual tour software, edit, and export your tour.
Let’s do this with Kuula. We’ll assume you’ve created your images already.
Creating a Virtual Tour Using Kuula:
Here’s a whirlwind explanation of Kuula’s virtual tour creation.
Register
Register for a free Kuula.co account or log in. You’ll arrive at your dashboard.
Upload your images
- Click “Upload”
- Drag and drop or select your 360° or panorama image files.
- Add titles, descriptions, and tags to the images.
Construct the tour
- Choose “New tour” and give it a name. You can also access your profile’s “Tours” tab and create a new tour from there.
- Add your uploaded photos to your new tour.
- Create interactive hotspots. These can link to another 360° photo, a website, or display text.
- Open your tour and click on the “Edit” button. You can adjust settings like starting view, autoplay, controls, and more from here.
- Customize the user interface, including buttons, controls, and branding (especially if you have a PRO subscription).
Hosting Your Virtual Tour on Tiiny.host:
Now you can export and host this immersive experience on Tiiny.host.
Tiiny.host is the simplest way to host your virtual tour.
All you’ll do is drag and drop the tour file you’ll make in the next step, and BOOM! Your virtual tour will be live on the web.
Here are the directions to host your new virtual tour:
Get the Embed Code from Kuula:
- Access your virtual tour on Kuula.
- Click “Share” and choose “Embed on website.”
- Customize the embed settings and copy the iframe code.
- Create an HTML file containing the Kuula iframe code. Name the file “index.html” so the web server recognizes it as a home page.
Navigate to Tiiny.host.
Now comes the easiest part.
- Visit the Tiiny.host home page.
- After you arrive, you drag and drop your HTML file onto the Tiiny.host home page.
- Follow the simple directions, and your project will be live on the web in moments.
It’s that easy.
Check for errors
Once your tour is live on the web, view it and check for any errors that may have crept into your HTML file.
Tiiny.host has an HTML editor you can use to review your code and make any necessary changes. Save the file and your website is automatically updated.
Share your tour’s unique Tiiny.host weblink
Your virtual tour is available to anyone with the unique web address you created in the installation procedure.
With the free tier, one virtual tour can be hosted indefinitely.
With a paid plan, you can use a custom domain to make your virtual tour more professional.
In addition to using a custom domain, Tiiny.host offers many more professional features such as password protection, CDN global networking, and analytics to see how many visitors your tour gets.
For all pro features and tier pricing, visit Tiiny.host/pricing.
Accessing your link or QR code
You can always access the tour’s unique web address from your dashboard.
Also, you can click to create a QR code for sharing a scannable way to transport your visitors to your tour.
Next steps
Tiiny.host offers everything you need to share a professional or personal virtual tour online.
Got questions?
Tiiny.host’s customer service people are awesome! Contact them at Tiiny.host/help and see.
You can ask about anything in this article, about hosting in general, or about Tiiny.host through chat or email. In fact, we try to answer all questions. We know a lot. Try us.
FAQ: Virtual Tour Hosting
What is virtual tour hosting?
Virtual tour hosting refers to the online storage and accessibility of virtual tours, enabling users to view and interact with them via the internet. Just like websites need hosting to be accessible online, virtual tours also require a platform or service to host the content so that viewers can access them anywhere.
Are there free virtual tour hosting platforms available?
Yes, there are several platforms that offer free basic hosting for virtual tours. We recommend Tiiny.host for speed, security, and professional features. A free tier is available.
Is my virtual tour data safe on hosting platforms?
Reputable virtual tour hosting platforms, such as Tiiny.host, prioritize the security and privacy of user data. However, reviewing a platform’s security measures, data policies, and backup provisions is always a good practice. Choose wisely.
