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WalkingTour Features

HTML5

WalkingTours are built entirely in HTML5, so they are inherently mobile device friendly and work flawlessly on tablets. HTML5 also means that your WalkingTour visitors do not need to download and install an app to see the tour experience. Finally, HTML5 means that your WalkingTour experience also works on new devices and operating systems as they come onto the market - Windows8, Blackberry, and the myriad of new operating systems of tomorrow will all have browsers capable of running HTML5 tools.

Video Guides

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 browser configurations.

Coordinated Slideshows

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.

Interactive Tour Route Map

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.

Foreign Language Support & Video Guides

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.

Additional Media Items

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.

Topics

Topics also connect to WalkingTour stops to integrate locations into broader organizational concepts. Topics launch in their own windows and may include text, links, photographs, videos or panoramic images.

Integrated Inquiry Management

WalkingTour visitors are encouraged to submit their contact information via in-tour inquiry forms. WalkingTour inquiries are delivered directly to organizations via an Inquiry Dashboard.

Web-Based Content Management System

WalkingTour features on online content management system that enables participating organizations to quickly and easily update their tours, add stops, change videos and more.

Social Media Integration

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.

Smartphone Module

The WalkingTour Smartphone Module contains a redacted interface of the WalkingTour product optimized for smaller devices. The Smartphone Module includes the entire WalkingTour and all of its content, including foreign language versions. Best of all, since it is constructed in HTML5, your visitors won't have to download an app to see your tour!

Global Positioning System (GPS) Integration

Today when visitors arrive at your location, and tours are unavailable for whatever reason, they have limited options for touring the campus on their own. With the new WalkingTour Global Positioning System (GPS) capability, your visitors will be able to take your entire WalkingTour simply by walking around campus with a GPS and Internet-capable smartphone or tablet!

People & Commentary

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.

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