Virtual Tours
Once again krpano software is used to create, display, and navigate through these virtual tours. The color coded flashing dots throughout each tour will lead you to other images, videos, panoramas and/or tours taken on these trips.
Images are displayed in an embedded window. You can click the X in the upper right corner of the window, or you can click just outside the image window to return to the overhead map.
Video clips, which will be shown in an embedded YouTube window. You can switch to full screen video, project it to your TV, or view it directly on YouTube by clicking on one of the 3 icons on the bottom right of the window. Just touch/click outside the YouTube window to return to the overhead map.
Panoramas are also displayed in an embedded window, but the initial image shown is just a portion of the entire panorama. You can scroll around the entire panorama by dragging your finger/mouse around the screen and zoom in using a mouse scroll wheel or using the two finger method on your phone or tablet. You can also move around and zoom in and out using the single arrows and the + and - icons at the very bottom of the screen. When you are finished exploring the panorama, click the X in the upper right corner of the window, or click just outside the panorama window.
The following 2 tours are from my 2007 trip to Italy with Dr. David Soren, the University of Arizona Regent's Professor of Anthropology and Classics. He is also Director and professor at the Orvieto Institute, so I was able to tag along with some of his classes during their field trips in various archaeological sites between Rome and Florence.
- Blue flashing dots are links to groups of standard size images. There may be more than 1 image in a group, so touch/click on the right or left side of each image to see the next or previous image. To return to the overhead map, just touch/click outside the image display window.
- Orange flashing dots are links to video clips.
- White flashing dots are links to large panoramas. When you are finished looking around the panorama, look for the large UP ARROW somewhere along the top of each panorama. If there are several panoramas in a group, the UP ARROW will load the next panorama. If it's the last panorama in the group, the UP ARROW will take you back to the overhead map.
This was my first experiment with virtual tours... welcome to my view of Orvieto, Italy.
Virtual tour of my entire trip to Italy in 2007. The white Orvieto flashing dot leads to the previous Orvieto tour.
The following tour has lots of maps and routes we took on the Holland America cruise and during my excursions from the ports in New Zealand and Australia. The color coded flashing dots in this tour are a little different than the previous tours:
- Cyan flashing dots are links to standard size images.
- Orange flashing dots are links to video clips.
- Yellow flashing dots are links to large panoramas.
- Red flashing dots are links to another related scene at that location on the map.
This image appears on every map, clicking on it will always return you to the main map with all the destinations.
Images, panoramas and videos from my Holland America cruise on the Noordam
The following tour contains twelve 360 degree panoramas taken above each of the named Vista Points along the drive up the Mount Lemmon Scenic Byway near Tucson, AZ. In each panorama you can drag the view around with your mouse or finger, and you can zoom in or out with the mouse wheel or with two fingers on a tablet or other touch screen. The left side of the control panel contains 3 ways to choose which of the twelve panoramas you are viewing:
- The double arrows allow going back and forth through the panoramas one by one.
- The 4 panel icon pops up another thumbnail panel, which you can scroll to see every panorama and choose your selection.
- The earth icon brings up a Google Map to see the locations of each vista and forces you to choose one of the twelve markers (you can drag the map around and zoom in or out if needed to see all the markers).
The panoramas were taken 100 feet in the air with my new DJI Mini 4 Pro with its spherical panorama picture mode. If you drag each panorama's view so that you are looking straight down you will definitely see my silver truck and the drone's orange landing pad.