For people who offer 360° virtual tours as a service, I’m curious about the sales side.

What part is actually the hardest?

Finding businesses to approach

Explaining the value of a 360° tour

Getting past “we already have Google Street View”

Pricing the service

Getting repeat clients

Convincing clients to pay for updates

Something else?

If you’re doing this commercially, what has worked for you — and what definitely didn’t work?

Would love to hear real experiences rather than generic marketing advice.

With Google Street View, social media, and video giving businesses so many ways to show their space, I’m curious how people feel about 360° virtual tours today.

For businesses like hotels, restaurants, real estate, showrooms, offices, venues, etc.:

Are 360° virtual tours still something businesses are willing to pay for?

For those who create/sell virtual tours:

What type of business gets the most value from them?

What usually convinces a client to say yes?

What objections do you hear most often?

Are clients asking for Google Street View, an embedded website tour, or both?

I’d especially like to hear from people who are actually selling these services. Is demand growing, staying the same, or declining?

👋 Starting a new community for 360° virtual tour creators

I'm building a new community, r/PanoPublish, focused on 360° photography, virtual tours, immersive experiences, and the tools/workflows behind them.

I'm curious to hear from people already working in this space:

What's the biggest pain point you currently face when creating or delivering virtual tours?

For example:

Publishing and hosting tours

Finding clients

Pricing projects

Choosing the right 360 camera

Embedding tours on websites

Sharing tours with clients

Choosing between different virtual-tour platforms

Getting better quality/results

I'm building the community around these real-world problems, so I'd love to hear what experienced creators think should be discussed there.

If you'd like to join, you're welcome at r/PanoPublish — but even just sharing your experience here would be incredibly useful. 🙌

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Please give me feedback on my pricing. If it's too high or too low, or if pricing is off. My equipment would be an insta 360 x4. What are the differences between Matterport and Zillow House Tours?

Virtual tours
$150: 0-1999 sqft 
$175: 2000-2999 sqft
$200: 3000-3999 sqft
$225: 4000-4999 sqft
$250: 5000-5999 sqft
$275: 6000-6999 sqft
$300: 7000-7999 sqft
$325: 8000-8999 sqft
$350: 9000-9999 sqft

We’ve been working on AI object removal specifically for 360° panoramas.

The idea is simple: instead of exporting the panorama to another photo editor, you can brush over tripods, people, cables or other unwanted objects and continue building the virtual tour in the same browser.

This short demo shows how it works in Virto 360.

Would be interested to hear how useful this would be for 360 photographers and virtual tour creators

Working in the whole distribution and infrastructure flow of virtual tours.

Created virtual tour on Cyango, published and loaded via our own digital signage platform and voilá!

Can be optionally cached in the display device to avoid network issues.

Around 58 panoramas (some of them are tiled multi-res);

WebXR ready (VR panoramas, VR UI, etc);

Offline ready;

Do any changes in the editor and publish anytime, no need to redeploy (unless you're self-hosting)

Then in the digital signage you can manage devices, deploy new experiences, and much, much more

So much work going on.

Ah and none of this is vibe coded, which you can really trust.

Been building a platform that converts 360 videos into fully navigable 3D tours you can share with a link.

The workflow is straightforward:

1. Capture your 360 video: disable auto exposure and autofocus, move through the scene at 3 different height levels, and export with auto-stabilization turned OFF
2. Upload your 360 video to captures.studio : a photorealistic 3D will be automatically generated
3. Edit, cleanup, and enhance your generated 3D in our Editor
4. Add interactive elements : images, video, spatial audio, 3D mesh, and more
5. Set up your tour using multiple customizable viewpoints
6. Hit publish and share the link : anyone can view it instantly in their browser

Would love to hear what the community thinks, especially from people already creating Matterport-style 3D tours using 360 cameras.

Try it at captures.studio

PS: If you want free reconstruction credits to test it out, feel free to DM me.

Keep seeing spec comparisons online but numbers don't always mean much in practice. Has anyone actually shown tours from both to a real client and noticed a difference in reaction?

Do high end residential and my clients care a lot about how the final result looks. Just wondering if the visual gap is noticeable in a finished tour or if it only shows up on paper.

I have been working on a virtual tour method for the real estate market that is time-efficient to capture using video unlike Matterport style tripod mounted captures. The viewing experience is more like google street view but indoors. The posted video is a screen capture of browsing through a 2 floor house online:

media.nuvarch.com/index.html

• The whole capture of the two floors was done in just under 9 minutes using a hand-held camera with a wide FOV lens (one lens of an Osmo 360 in this case, but can also use any wide FOV lens on any camera body).
• A design goal for the online viewer is to load within a second.
• There is no manual intervention required to go from capture upload to output viewer.
• The whole scene had around 7 stops of exposure variation so locking the exposure was not an option. The output is rendered as HDR without any manual intervention.

Still a work in progress, but in the meantime, I would very much appreciate it if you could give me some honest feedback on any and all aspects of this approach.

Hey folks,

I own and have been using Realsee M2 camera for my commercial 3D projects for 3 years now, and am very satisfied with it quality, features, pricing. In my own opinion, it beats Matterport in almost every aspect.

And I just got a chance to test their new camera, P4 - they provided it for testing and review.

If you're interested - please watch my video that I just posted.

Also, I would like to do more videos about the entire service, admin panel, features, cameras as well - so please let me know if there is anything particular you would like to see

Thanks!

Do you Guys know a tool, Software, cloudbased Software or a Chrome Extension to scrape Google Maps Leads ? I want to scrape local Leads which has no 360° Virtual Tour or 360° Images in the Google Business Profile. So i can contact them to make an offer. The Most of the Scraper Softwares don't provide the Check for a 360° Image. I Just tried Lobstr.io but it only counts the amount of Images.

I have taken my 360 photos with my insta 360 X3. My client wants to upload it to google with arrows linked so they can move around the store. Is there a free software I can use to upload this to google? A free trial will suffice too.

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Here is my virtual tour, immersive.

You like it?

Gaussian splatting has quickly become one of the most exciting developments in 3D reconstruction. The ability to explore a space from any viewpoint freely is what sets it apart from traditional 360° image-based virtual tours. This could become the new standard for how virtual tours are done.

I'm currently building a virtual tour solution based on gaussian splats. Right now you can create guided tours and add interactive media like images, text, video, and audio. It's primarily designed to be a one-stop solution — every tool you need to create gaussian splats, edit and refine them, add interactive media, create virtual tours, and share them, all in one place.

Would love for the community to try it out and share some feedback!

https://www.captures.studio/