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Interactive Maps

Graphical Layers on Interactive Campus Maps

  Interactive maps can graphically color or mark related buildings and campus locations.  Graphical layers make it much easier for prospective students, current students and other campus visitors to quickly
Virtual Tours

CampusTours Cardboard VR

  Virtual reality is coming, and CampusTours has solutions to allow you to test the VR waters while retaining a compelling virtual tour or interactive map for the 99%
Virtual Tours

Student Commentary

How can personal student video vignettes help your institution create a more authentic virtual tour experience? When CampusTours conducted user feedback testing on several of our tours back in 2007, students consistently
Virtual Tours

Building Compelling and Differentiated Virtual Tours

What Differentiates Virtual Campus Tours?  In this era of digital admissions, how do colleges stand out from their competitors? CampusTours has worked with hundreds of colleges, non-profits and government
Interactive Maps

Virtual Tour or Interactive Map?

  It’s an eternal institutional Web development question – do we develop an interactive map or a virtual tour … or both?  The campus is where students will be spending their
Map Artwork

3D Vector Maps

For a clean, graphical treatment of a campus, nothing can beat a 3D Vector map.  By simplifying the image and reducing the detail that is shown in Photo-realistic 3D Maps,
Virtual Tours

Virtual Tours Go International

  Just a few years ago academic Web sites were usually presented in one language with only peripheral attempts made to accommodate foreign-language speaking audiences.  Today schools are increasingly adopting
Map Artwork

Photo-realistic 3D Maps

As long as there have been college visits, there have been campus maps.  Originally developed for print and used in view books, freshmen course guides and welcome packets, campus