Adding Floor Plans or Mini Maps to your Virtual Tours

Louise Jones October 12, 2022

Your viewers won’t get lost with this brilliant new virtual tour feature from ThingLink!

Our latest ThingLink update enables you to add a floor plan or ‘mini map’ that shows the exact location of where you are on the 360-degree tour!

Virtual tours with embedded hotspots are increasingly popular for both education and workplace training such as onboarding. These highly interactive and accessible ways of showcasing a place, space or situation have continued to increase in popularity as they provide an immersive experience using 360-degree views that conveys a realistic sense of being there in person. 

We’ve seen a real surge in virtual tours created for real estate, interactive games by educators, holiday homes, virtual schools, transitions, campus tours and staff development, particularly essential training for onboarding new employees.

In fact, real estate professionals and potential buyers see virtual tours as an essential part of the purchase process now.  In learning and development training, virtual tours or interactive 360-degree images are seen as cost and time saving assets enabling organizations to be more efficient and effective.

Check out this brilliant virtual tour example featuring our new floor plan feature here, simply enter! What’s really nice about this is you can also click on the hotspots directly on the floor plan to transition to that scene / room.

Virtual tour quick and easy instructions!

Tour creation: To try this feature, you can create your own floor plan as a base image for a scene and add your 360 media scenes using the Transit Tag. Then simply add your floor plan scene ID in the settings panel. Read more in our brilliant walkthrough support article

Are you looking for a new virtual tour platform? ThingLink was the Best Rated Virtual Tour Software of 2022. It is the quickest and easiest virtual tour creator. Get started for free today! Once you’ve created your tour simply share or embed in your preferred place, social media, to a VR headset or website. You can even view ThingLink in offline mode.

Discover more about virtual reality and virtual tours in our post with great examples

How do I create a Virtual Tour? Quick and easy tutorial to create tours. 

Where can I see some examples? View great examples of virtual tours here

How do I make a high-quality virtual tour with my phone? You can create 360-degree images with or without a 360 degree camera (e.g. Insta360 one).

NEW! The easy way to create 360 images: Pano to 360

Creating virtual tour experiences, exhibitions, escape rooms and other immersive content just got even easier! To fill the void left by Google Street View, ThingLink has now launched Pano to 360 by ThingLink: an easy way to create a 360 photosphere from a panoramic image using any smartphone or mobile device. For more information, including step-by-step instructions see this helpful support article which covers all you need to know about our free virtual tour-compatible photosphere converter.

What else can you create with ThingLink?

Unlike many virtual tour platforms such Matterport, the ThingLink product suite provides the functionality to create an almost limitless variety of interactive content – from escape rooms, adventure games, interactive scenarios and more. You can even create a 3D tour using the Unity plugin for ThingLink, or easily create, share and view AR content with the amazing new ThingLink AR App. Take a look at thinglink.com!