If you’re having trouble embedding YouTube videos and seeing this dreaded “Video unavailable – Watch on YouTube” error: The issue stems, (usually), from copyright issues related to the video. YouTube refuses to allow videos with copyright strikes to be embedded on any webpage, let alone in a 360º …
Read moreBuy Now and Shopping Cart Functionality in your Retail Virtual Tour
Let’s take a look at how easy it is to integrate “Buy Now” and “Add To Cart” Shopping Cart functionality from Shopify into a 360 Virtual Tour using the External Scripts feature in SeekBeak.
Read moreAre 2D or 3D Hotspots better for your Virtual Tours and Virtual Experiences?
Let’s take a look at a few examples which might answer the age old question: 2D or 3D Point Hotspots… Which one is the BEST!? Example one is an exterior 360 image of a Pub that wants people to be able to click on a Hotspot to view …
Read moreEmbedding Dropbox Files in your SeekBeak Virtual Tour
Here’s a #protip we just came across while trying to embed a PDF file shared from a clients Dropbox account: By default, Dropbox doesn’t allow you to iFrame any shared files, however, you can bypass it with with this 1 Strange Trick!™ Make sure the Dropbox link sharing …
Read moreHow to Embed A Zoom Meeting inside a 360 Virtual Tour
A very handy post from Benjamin H in our User Group the other day! In order to embed a Zoom meeting inside of any 360 virtual tour, or even a flat image in SeekBeak, simply use the following code inside an Embed Hotspot: <iframe allow=”microphone; camera” style=”border: 0; …
Read moreUpdated Icon Modifiers and Embedding for 360 images
Here’s a couple more helpful features we pushed out just before the new year. This was originally published in our newsletter… if you’re not subscribed to our newsletter, why not?! New Icon Modifiers. We’re still in flat HTML land, but that doesn’t mean we can’t go 3D! …
Read moreHow To Straighten and Level the Horizon your 360º Images and Panoramas without Losing Quality
Using our new non destructive image leveling tools make it easy to fix any axis roll offsets, or horizon level issues with your 360º images, panoramas and virtual tours. As it’s a non destructive process, your image isn’t ever re-saved or re-compressed, keeping the original pristine file intact. …
Read moreiOS13 and iPadOS Supported 360 Experiences and Virtual Tours
Apple released iOS and iPadOS 13.1 yesterday, and we’ve updated the platform to support the (yet again), new way Apple allows access to the accelerometer and gyroscope in your mobile device. The next time you visit a SeekBeak Snap on an applicable device, you’ll now be presented with …
Read moreApple Disables iOS Safari Gyro Functionality Needed for VR / WebXR Navigation
Apple has released an update which disables real-time accelerometer and gyroscope data from iOS devices. With the new “Motion & Orientation Access” setting toggled off by default, SeekBeak (or ANY website for that matter) can’t read any of the phones motion data, and therefore won’t work in things …
Read moreGPS, Geo Tag and Mapping Solutions for 360 Photos
Automatic GPS Mapping for your 360 Photos Well, here’s a cool feature, requested largely in part by a surge of Drone photography folks using SeekBeak for their 360 image hosting! There’s a new group of preferences available to everyone, located in a new section inside the Snap Preferences …
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