Tour Guide Overlay Update Tour Guide functionality has been updated to play nicer with any Overlays you have created! Overlay Nodes now behave more like Hotspots while you are giving a remote tour, or being guided on a tour. If you are being guided: Clicking on an Overlay …
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Flat Image Panning Prevention and Anti Aliasing
Flat Image Panning Prevention By default, people can pan and zoom Flat Images. But what if you don’t want people to be able to drag, zoom, or pan the image around, and just want the interactive flat image to stay in the center of the screen or iFrame? …
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 moreGreen Screen Background Videos
Chroma / Green Screen Capabilities The big news last time was the introduction of videos as backgrounds for Polygon Hotspots. We’ve been iterating on that, and have now also introduced custom Chroma/Green Screen capabilities for Enterprise and Custom plans. Now you can seamlessly integrate green screened products, people, …
Read moreHotspot Backgrounds & Public Availability of Overlays
A big welcome to this exciting double whammy announcement! If you’re just joining us, and not aware of what the heck an Overlay or Team File is yet, have a read through last months blog post here: https://seekbeak.com/2021/02/26/custom-overlays/ The TL;DR version: Overlays are a way for you to …
Read moreCustom Overlays
Introducing…custom overlays! Over the years, we’ve seen some super creative ways our customers use SeekBeak, and we’ve tried to make many things customizable to allow for the flexibility they required. What’s not been very configurable however, is the overall UI (User Interface) that your viewers see. The full …
Read moreHow to host virtual trade shows
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies faster than we could have imagined. Transformations that might have taken years have happened in months. As futurist Ben Pring, co-founder of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, said recently, “COVID-19 is quickly making the future the present.’’ …
Read moreSecure Embedding/Monetizing your 360 content
SeekBeak now allows you to specify a list of allowed referrers for Groups, this new area is located under the Security tab when editing a Group. This means that any content in that Group will only be accessible while embedded inside a defined URL, or when accessed from …
Read moreScheduled Appointments with Tour Guide
Tour Guide Links Tour Guide is one of our most popular features! Now with this update, you can create predefined Tour Guide links for your remote tours/classes/sessions via your new “Tour Guide Links” area. Once you create your Tour Guide link you are able to: Have a waiting …
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