This is Ben from life in 360 and in this video I'm going to teach you how to
make your own virtual tour regardless of the 360 camera you own, I'm here in
Vancouver I got an amazing office space behind me and we're going to shoot
this bad boy using my Xiaomi camera however you can use any 360 camera
I discovered this amazing software called CUPIX and it's completely free and it will allow
you to host your 360 photos into a virtual tour, as well as create a 3d
render of the entire space the software does everything I think this is going to
blow your mind.
So here are my weapons of choice I have a nice cheap 360 camera the Xiaomi Mijia Sphere
it's an excellent option I will put a link to this down in the
description to where you can find it for around the $200 mark this is the
Manfrotto mini pixie tabletop tripod I've got my favorite Manfrotto selfie
stick here this is a two in one selfie pole and finally we have an adapter
which is going to allow us to put the selfie stick onto the tripod so step one
is you want to remove the tripod from your camera if it has a tripod and we're
going to put that onto the selfie stick now for the bottom end we're going to
undo this and look you can use any selfie stick you want this is one I'd
recommend but you don't have to use it I'm going to put this adapter on here
I got this on Amazon for a couple of dollars so I'll put a link to that as well as
all of these in the description and then I'm putting my tripod onto there I think
you guys are going to be amazed at how little the presence will be of this set
up in the final photos these legs are really small look at that and then
especially when we extend it so far out and this is one of the longest selfie
sticks that I found it goes almost to eye level which is perfect for virtual
tours you want them roughly at eye level so there we go look that freestanding on
its own and that's very secure because this is well made aluminium both the
selfie stick and the tripod so you can trust this not going to fall over
especially if you're indoors with no wind with this approach I've chosen to
set it up like this because I'm going to go and hide in my photos you can
actually just hold the selfie stick like this and then you end up
in the bottom of the shot if you like but this is a good way to do it if your
camera has a self timer like the Xiaomi has or if you can activate it by your
phone this tripod has a leveler you just press down that button and you can
adjust the tilt of the head you'll want to definitely make sure that is dead level
before you go ahead and get to adjust to avoid it
tipping over I find a good way to do this is to see how straight it looks
from all angles from a distance and already I'm seeing it's a little bit off
tilt so I'm going to adjust it this way a little bit more
okay it's looking good this way however it could look very different from this side let's have a
look okay yeah just a tiny bit this way now, I think we have a vertical selfie stick
Mi Sphere goes on Wi-Fi goes on I'm going to connect to my app and then
I'm going to go run and hide and take my first photo let's do it
here we have the preview and I am hiding down the hallway there so let's take our first photo
so that's our first shot taken now I'm going to move the camera up about a meter or so
I think you should just use common sense and whenever you see
the environment has changed significantly then move it up that far you don't need
to do it every few inches I would say maybe three to six feet at a time so
I've got it here right now and I want the next step of my two are to be about
here I think enough has changed within those six feet to guarant this next
photo so you know the exact same thing again and go hide
when you're walking through doorways you'll want to shoot a few extra shots
so later on the 3d tour can be nicely pieced together at the moment you can
see this is the door right it might think that that is wallpaper or a
painting so that's why we're going to take a few I'm going to take one here
one here and one here I'd say it may be a few inches apart just so the software
can really determine that 3d space
if creating a 3d map is something that
really excites you like it does me you want to get as many photos as possible
in your room so it can then determine the distance later on between everything
in the room and it can create that interactive map if you only have one
photo it's going to be less accurate so the more the better look you don't have
to overshoot it but in a room like this I'd say you'd want at least five
different photos in different corners of the room just so those depth points can be determined
all right this room is done so now let's head over to the edit
suite and pieced this bad boys together
I can never resist the opportunity to do a bit
of color correction so I put these 26 bad boys through Adobe Camera Raw in
Photoshop so you may want to do the same neither Photoshop Lightroom or whatever
your color corrector of choice is as you can see I've only gonna subtle grade
only because the image was well taken to begin with I'm really just bringing up
the shadows a little bit bringing down the highlights just a tad and boosting that
saturation and warmth a tiny little bit you do need to be honest about the space
you're representing so don't over color corrected next head to CUPIX.COM sign
in with your Facebook account and bam we're at the dashboard already up in the
top left hit "new 3d tour" enter the details of your space upload your photos
and let it load look this is not going to be fast it's going to take up to a
few hours depending on how many photos you take so go outside and take some
silly tiny planet photos while you're waiting and we're done what we see in
front of us isn't really that impressive right well wait for this s#!t this is
gonna be so cool I hit "floorplan" and here we have our
virtual tour on the right but check this out on the left this is an actual
floor plan of the building I was shooting and you can see it's picked up
the scale of everything has picked up where the little rooms are to be honest
I could have done a much better job at shooting to really get the depth of each
little crevice of this space but I just wanted to give you guys a simple example
but our virtual tour is completely stitched so we can go from point to
point and now look around and it's automatically been done for us this is
super cool how long did that take guys not long at all
and you can see that all of our points have been automatically detected about
where the photo was taken within this environment now wait for this this is
gonna be even cooler still we're going into 3d texture mode and look at that we
can see the walls we can see all the details of the space on this 3d map how
cool is this s#!t this is amazing I can see how this would be really handy for
architects or anyone working in construction to get a super in-depth
feel of a space see how I'm just moving this whole space around this is massive
[Me humming something epic about to happen.]
now I'm gonna add some text into the
space let's say "BEN IS AWESOME" yeah!
so there you can see we've added 3d text
when people walk around our walk through "Ben is awesome" is going to show up in
that spot of our virtual tour there are a bunch of other cool 3d elements you
can add I won't go into them now maybe in another tutorial so next we want to
go into the publisher and here we have the preview of what your client would
potentially look at they'd see "Ben is awesome" and they'd be like hey if that
guy's awesome I must do business with him it just looks super professional and
I've essentially done this with a 200 dollar budget just the cost of
the camera and the basic accessories but honestly my mind is blown about how cool
this tech is now you just hit the publish slider and our virtual tour is
now online we can copy the URL so when we open up a new tab this will be the
URL that we send people to so they can access our virtual tour and here we have it
guy's our end result it is looking absolutely awesome cool guys I hope this
was helpful CUPIX is an awesome free software so get on to it if you're into
creating virtual tours you want to interiors exteriors use this software
because it's going to be amazing and it's free and easy and it's all online
and you'll be able to send it to clients or whoever wants to view it pretty
easily so it's definitely something I would recommend if you're looking to
pick up a 360 camera I'll put a link to this one down in the description is my
current camera of choice for the 200 dollar price range it's excellent it delivers
in so many ways so it's excellent for virtual tours again I'll put links to my
full set up down in the description also don't forget to hit that SUBSCRIBE
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awesome 360 content coming really soon hey let me know if you like this and if
you want to learn more about virtual tours because maybe I'll make some more
videos they are going to some more in-depth features of creating virtual
tours I think this will be an awesome way to earn money with your 360 camera
so it's something worth learning and exploring because it means you'll be
bringing money in which will further your 360 adventures until next time keep
capturing your world in 360 this has been Ben you follow me on instagram at
Ben Clermont tiny planets and all kinds of wacky 360 stuff
and I'll see you in the next video