Hotspots in SeekBeak allow you to add interactive multimedia content and metadata, bringing your 360° images, flat images, 3D Models, gaussian splats, virtual tours and experiences, to life. Hotspots enable your users and clients to discover content that goes way beyond a simple static image or web page.
Choose from either the standard Point based Hotspots, or create Polygon based Hotspots, which allow you to define complex trigger shapes within your image or 3D model.
The SeekBeak Hotspots are rendered using vectors, so they're always crisp and readable at any zoom level, on any device. The color and opacity of the text, background, and icon of every Hotspot is customizable, and can be animated using our built in Animation Suite.
Hotspots normally have a primary action, but can also have multiple other actions assigned. On supported plans, any action can be controlled by conditional rules and branched based on custom variables, making each interaction context-aware. The primary actions for any Hotspot includes:
Does your picture need to say more than a thousand words? Easily add your text by using the Rich Text content Hotspot! Change colors, fonts, sizing and more. Plus: SeekBeak automatically parse your content and create clickable web and email address links.
Embed external videos, maps, images, PDFs, Microsoft Office files, other 360° content, and tons of other external content from sites such as YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, and loads more!
Add annotations, background sound FX, a narrated walkthrough, promotional overdub, music clips, or any other MP3 files. Both HRTF based Spatial Audio for Virtual Reality, and normal stereo modes supported. No audio recorder? No problem, SeekBeak has a built in MP3 recorder that records from your computers microphone via Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge browsers.
Enter a link from an online product page, and watch SeekBeak magically create a "Buy Now" hotspot for your product with product details and images automatically populated. No syncing databases or re-entering data. Seamless integration with Shopify, ebay, Amazon, Etsy, and more!
Go beyond static content. With custom variables, a visual rule builder, and conditional branching, your experiences can adapt to each viewer in real time. Build branching narratives, track scores, personalize by language or role, and trigger actions reactively, all without writing a single line of code. Available on supported plans.
Use {{variableName}} tokens in Hotspot text, Overlay content, URLs, and more. Display live scores, personalized greetings, viewer selections, or any variable value... updated in real time as variables change.
100% Browser Based
No websites to manage, no hosting to configure, no software or scripts to install, no patches, no updates, no plugins, no hassle!
The full editing suite... On your phone or tablet.
Add new content, update a client's info, move some Hotspots, or change a contact email address? You can do everything on your mobile device.
Cross Browser Viewer
Our SeekBeak Viewer works across all popular current desktop and mobile browsers, all at a silky 60fps. Your users will experience effortless inertia-based panning and zooming, using touch gestures or a mouse. Your users can navigate around the image by physically moving their phone around, like looking through a virtual window.
Our Custom Overlay designer allows you to create the User Interface that you want. Whether it's a single custom button that's always visible, or an entirely custom user experience with hundreds of UI nodes, actions and events, SeekBeak Overlays let you do it all. On supported plans, control which overlay elements appear using conditional rules to show or hide UI nodes based on viewer progress, quiz scores, or language selection.
Sure, we've got the nice crossfades, the zooms, the walkthrough transitions... but we also have a comprehensive transition designer, if you want to add that extra wow factor. Upload your own custom gradient wipe files, use our built in gradient wipe designer, upload client logos, then adjust the speeds, zooms, and other animation parameters to build your perfect transition!
Use your company logo as a watermark in your Snaps. Customize the logo URL, title, position and size at any time. You can also use your own custom Google Analytics Tracking ID per Snap.
SeekBeak has dozens of stock vector icons for your Hotspots, and we allow uploading of your own custom static, or animated, .svg, .jpg, .png, .gif, or .apng format icons! We also allow you to configure the color and opacity of the text, background, and icon of every hotspot.
Upload an image and create a 2D map, or multiple layers of maps, for floor plans, overlays, arial overviews etc. using our ridiculously easy Map Editor. Easily add navigation Hotspots and let your viewers smoothly navigate their way around!
Show the same location at two different points in time Choose from a selection of Split Screen modes:
A dedicated Share button instantly shares your content across any social media, instant messaging, SMS, comment fields, forum responses etc.
We even provide a QR Code generator for print media, and an Photo Snapshot button which takes a 2D photo of your current view, ready for presentations/uploading/whatever.
Upload your own thumbnails, or have SeekBeak generate watermarked thumbnails for you.
Use our custom URL generator, which allows your sharing link to be customized, dynamically changing your content, allowing you to easily do things like removing branding for MLS sites which don't allow it.
Full link tracking support in all Reports via UTM codes, and yes, we also provide a very robust UTM link generator for you to use.
Using our handy embed code generator, you can embed your photos and tours anywhere on your website using JavaScript or IFrames.
The script version allows movement via your mobile phone accelerometer across domain names. It also cleverly limits the number of active 360's to lower mobile browser memory consumption and prevent crashes that can occur with many embeds.
Looking for some deep integration? The SeekBeak Embed API allows for bi-directional communication between a SeekBeak embed and any host website.
We don't force you to submit your Snaps to any online directories. Your content is private unless you publish or share your custom URL.
Upload and manage multiple images and assets with ease.
SeekBeak uses a simple organizational structure. A "Snap" is a self-contained unit: one equirectangular 360° image, flat image, 3D model, or Gaussian Splat, along with all the hotspots and associated audio, video, and image files you attach to it. A "Map" is a 2D image with navigation hotspots that lets your users move around visually — floor plans, aerial views, brochures, or anything else. A "Group" is how you organize your Snaps into virtual tours, client projects, classrooms, courses, company divisions, and more.
Part of a creative team, agency, school, or company? Easily create White Labelled Teams, each with different branding, and manage everything from a single login. Each Team is a separate entity, including all content, subscription details, and invoicing. Team invoices come directly to you, your Team Members never see any billing information.
Need to manage multiple Teams, but maintain one bill? Sub-Teams allow you to create Teams within Teams. Keep your clients, content, and Team Members completely separated, all under one billing umbrella.
Need a client to review a tour, or a contractor to edit some Hotspots? Generate a shareable Access Link that grants scoped Editor or Reviewer access to a single Group, no account required. Recipients click the link and start working immediately. Disable or delete any link at any time to revoke access instantly. Available on supported plans.
Gone are your days of manually patching the bottom of your images to crop out your tripod or giant thumb. Simply upload a patch JPG or PNG, and SeekBeak will non-destructivly patch your main image. SeekBeak will even dynamically rotate your patch to always face the viewer, so they can always read any important text right side up, no matter which way they're viewing.
Have a cropped or partial panorama, or a camera which doesn't include the very top or bottom of an image? SeekBeak will automatically detect any limited views and fill the remainder of the image in black, maintaining a proper aspect ratio.
Users can share each Snap via their social networks or over email. SeekBeak provides dynamic thumbnail and content generation for all Social Media channels.
We support full featured split screen VR viewing with Google Cardboard, or any other mobile-based Head Mounted Display including Gaze Based hotspot activation and virtual tour navigation. We also have controller and gaze based navigation support with WebVR Immersive Mode on Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive headsets.
Reuse the same Snap or Tour for various purposes, without duplicating it! MLS for example, doesn't allow Real Estate company branding on images. Using our simple URL customizer, the tour show on the MLS website won't show any of your branding, but the exact same tour will display your custom branding on all other sites and social networks.