Tutorial: How to add a 3D dollhouse to your 360 virtual tours14354
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This tutorial covers a few techniques about adding a 3D dollhouse view to 360 virtual tours created using popular panoramic software. The following apps / services are mentioned: - Matterport (http://matterport.com) - Everpano (http://everpano.com) - Metareal (http://metareal.com) - Immoviewer (http://immoviewer.com) - Cupix (http://cupix.com) - Asteroom (http://asteroom.com) - 3DVista (http://3dvista.com) - SeekBeak (http://seekbeak.com) - Pano2VR (http://pano2vr.com) - 3D Scanner app (https://www.3dscannerapp.com/) - Canvas (https://canvas.io/) - Everypoint (https://everypoint.io/) - Scaniverse (https://scaniverse.com/) - SiteScape (https://www.sitescape.ai/) - Polycam (https://poly.cam/) - Sketchfab (http://sketchfab.com) - Object2VR (https://ggnome.com/object2vr/) - VLC Media Player (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) - How to extract video frames and save to images (https://www.raymond.cc/blog/extract-video-frames-to-images-using-vlc-media-player/) --- Transcript (video above) - My name is Paolo Tosolini, and in today's video, I'm going to share some techniques to add a 3D Dollhouse effected to your 360 virtual tours. What is a Dollhouse? If you have experienced a Matterport 3D virtual tour, you probably enjoyed the cutaway view of the entire space. You can rotate the model at any angle and get a sense of the full layout. This particular feature is not easy to replicate. Usually, you need a camera with depth sensors to capture the 3D information. But new services are emerging, filling the gap between 360 photos and 3D models. What if you want to add a dollhouse to tours created in apps like 3DVista, SeekBeak, Pano2VR and others. Here's my first tip and it involves the latest iPhone 12 Pro. These new phones, feature a LiDAR sensor, capable of recording 3D information. There are several great apps on the iOS App Store that take advantage of the LiDAR scanner. One of my favorites is Polycam. Here's what it looks like, a 3D scanning a kitchen. - Once you process the model, make sure to share it through the Polycam website. There you will have the option to get an embed code that you can drop into your virtual tour hotspots. The resolutions of the model, cannot match the quality of a Matterport Dollhouse. However, it is a good start. My second tip is about leveraging Sketchfab as the hosting service for your 3D models. The Dollhouse effect requires you to set the faces rendering to single sided in order to see through the walls. This feature worked best for me when I used the Scaniverse app. Once ready, just grab the embed code and plug it into your virtual tour. And now my last tip. This is a virtual tour on a proprietary premium platform, that I want to move away from. I was able to download the 360s and recreate the walkthrough in 3DVista. But what about the Dollhouse? Using the screen capture tool Snagit, I saved 45 different snapshots of the original Dollhouse. Then I recreated the spinning effect that using another utility called Object2VR. This software takes a series of images of an object from different angles and creates interactive 360 product photos. This technique works also with videos. You can use the VLC media player to extract the sequence of frames from an animation and ingest them into Object2VR for an original Dollhouse experience. I hope you enjoyed these explorations. You can find many more prototypes and Mash-ups on my YouTube channel. Ciao. |
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| Molto interessante Paolo! Complimenti, lo proverò. Ciao Marcello |
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| @marcellom Grazie! So many opportunities these days to capture reality | ||
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| Yesss! :-) | ||
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| Awesome work Tosolini | ||
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| @Tosolini Thank you for sharing the various how to dollhouse techniques. Way cool! Dan |
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