Our interactive virtual tour for the Helicopter Museum is finished and we just had to show you…
More than just a virtual tour…
There is a good reason why we’re so excited about this tour. Number 1: It’s our first tour created under our Charity Scheme, 2: It takes advantage of interactive hotspots that expand with more information about the area they point at. The uses for this type of interactivity are endless, but we’ll talk more about how they have been used in the Helicopter Museum example above.
The information hotspots, as shown above, are a fantastic way of getting across information to your visitors. It gives an extra dimension to tours that goes even further to captivate people and keep them engaged in what you have to offer for longer.
However, there is another great reason why these hotspots are an excellent feature on tours. With the example above, the hotpsots have been used to convey facts about exhibition pieces. This allows for the tour to not only be used on their website to entice new visitors, but used as an educational tool when their educational staff visit neighbouring schools, Bingo!
Accessibility
Further plans for the tour also include making it available within the museum for those that are less able bodied. They could take a look inside the cockpit of an aircraft using the interactive tour, a view they otherwise wouldn’t be able to experience.
What the museum thought…
Please see the comments from Lee Mills, General Manager below:
“The Helicopter Museum is overjoyed by the kind donation of this virtual tour and immensely impressed by both the quality and professional production of the end product.
The virtual tour will take pride of place on our website to give potential visitors to the Museum a taste of what they can see here and at the same time it clearly demonstrates the size and scale of our world famous collection. A feat that standard still imagery simply cannot accomplish.
We will also be using the virtual tour as part of our Education Outreach Programme, this is where our Education Officer and volunteers go out to the schools, clubs and disabled groups that for different reasons are unable to visit the museum itself. Thanks to this virtual tour we are now able to ‘walk’ them around certain parts of the museum and even into a cockpit as part of the presentation.”
