 [HTML5 DESKTOP & TABLET VERSION] --- [SMARTPHONE VERSION] View more virtual tours and campus maps created by CampusTours The Radford University Virtual Tour Experience is built atop the CampusTours WalkingTour Platform (see www.WalkingTour.com) allowing the institution to modify the tour instantly at any time with a Web-based content management system. When people visit your organization in person you give them a guided tour, and WalkingTour.com lets you do the same thing online. With WalkingTour.com you can choose one or more Video Tour Guides to lead your experience. Each tour stop is scripted and recorded in high-definition video using chroma key compositing and a teleprompter to ensure a high quality guide delivery. Video guides are delivered in HTML5 via MP4 and OGG Theora to allow them to work in all major desktop and mobile device configurations. The Radford University WalkingTour system uses HTML5 output to deliver the experience seamlessly to tablets, desktops and smartphones. Why is this important? Imagine for a moment that you are a prospective student, just beginning your college search, and you've picked up the family iPad to research colleges. At some college Web sites, the schools will attempt to force you to download an app onto your iPad to view their tour experiences - something students admit they are unlikely to do for each and every college they consider. Schools like Radford have experiences that play immediately for the visitor, without the need for an app download. CampusTours' WalkingTour Platform includes a responsive Smartphone Module for small screen devices like smartphones, iTouch and other Web enabled devices with screen sizes smaller than seven inches. WalkingTour.com pairs the guides' video narratives with lush photographs or your organization in action, creating a compelling and entertaining experience that tells a complete story to your visitors. Instead of simply placing the guide in front of a single scene or panoramic image, WalkingTour.com allows you to control the display of photographs so that when you mention new programs or facilities, you can immediately show a photo of them in use. This is important, because often it's not the buildings that attract people, but what goes on inside those structures. CampusTours WalkingTour Platform is GPS-enabled, allowing visitors to your campus to walk the campus with GPS-equipped smartphones and tablets, and obtain content on buildings or facilities as they approach those locations. WalkingTour.com features an interactive tour route map that provides instant access to any location in the tour. The map is docked to the bottom left corner of the WalkingTour interface, and can be zoomed using the +/- buttons and panned by dragging the map. The Map may also be expanded to fill the right side of the interface for closer inspection by the visitor. Clicking the 'Expand Map' button enlarges the map to fill the right side of the WalkingTour interface and clicking 'Collapse Map' will return the map to its original state. Today reaching your increasingly diverse audience in their native languages is more important than ever, and the WalkingTour.com service is built from the ground up to support multiple languages. When a visitor selects the CHINESE or SPANISH version of your tour, the tour stop names immediately change to reflect the new language, a video guide plays in the new language and the coordinated slideshow is retimed to match the new guide. WalkingTour ensures that your foreign language visitors receive "first class" treatment. In addition to a video guide and coordinated slideshow, each WalkingTour.com stop can contain unlimited media items ranging from videos to panoramic images to additional still photographs. Adding additional media to the tour enables deeper exploration on topics of special visitor interest. WalkingTour integrates easily into your existing Facebook presence so users can take your tour while visiting your Facebook page. WalkingTour also contains advanced social media integration to allow your visitors to post easily to Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest or LinkedIn (and others) from within the tour and share the exact stop they are enjoying with their friends via WalkingTour Deeplinks. CampusTours has included commentary on our virtual tours since 2009, and today almost 40% of visitor time in our virtual tours is spent watching these unrehearsed and unedited commentaries. Adding commentary to stops in the WalkingTour allows your visitors to see how your community conducts their everyday lives, giving multiple perspectives on your programs and facilities. WalkingTour includes an Inquiry Management Dashboard, and utilizes appeals from current students to help increase lead generation rates.  |