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March 17, 2006
Virtual Library Tours
In one of my last acts as the e-Services Librarian for the Marin County Free Library, today I posted some 360-degree virtual tours of our libraries.
There's one central virtual tour page (linked from our "Hours and Locations" page) and each branch has a link to its virtual tour(s) on its homepage.
I'd like to do more on the main index page for the tours, little thumbnails of each tour for example, but being massively pressed for time, it's something.
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Virtual tours are what they are--on this site, real estate sites--anything. You’ll never get the same photo quality with a virtual tour that you would with still photographs. When photographing a huge room, the quality of the image is necessarily limited. The library is happy to be able to give at least a glimpse into what our libraries look like, rather than no view of them at all.
The camera used was a digital camera with a special fisheye lens. Our county’s IT department is producing virtual tours for county facilities (parks available for rental, community halls) and we were able to convince them to do our libraries as well.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton (LiB) | March23, 2006
Massively cool idea--what kind of camera did you use for the video, digital or analog?
Posted by: Starrlett | March21, 2006
Hello! Visited the virtual tours at your libraries. They are interesting and give a good overview of their physical space. :D
But may I ask, can the quality of photos/panorama be improved? The photos are quite blur, and they are too "fish-eye-view" - quite different from the reality we perceive.
Thanks!
Posted by: Cherry | March21, 2006
