hi everyone, In this video, we will
go over the complete process of capturing editing sharing, and embedding 360 photography of a car.
We will also discuss how to add interior 360 photo and hotspot contents like image pdf
text URL and video. the final result
will look like this, an interactive virtual tour of the car with multi-content so people can move
around the car and see it from all angles, look at interior 360 photo, watch videos, open pdf,
zoom in multi-level and finally interact with hotspots and show more images, text, and pdf.
Whether you are a car dealership, marketplace,
or auction house, you can use the 360 car photography techniques to create a
virtual tour of a car for your website, social platforms, and online marketing.
You can also export the model as a video, Gif or multi-frames.
Studies show this can increase sales up to 30 percent by increasing
engagement and educating your audience. So without further ado, let's get started.
To make it easy, we have split the process into three steps.
Step 1, capturing a 360 photo Step 2, editing the 360 photo.
Step 3, sharing or embedding the 360 photo.
Let's start with step 1, capturing a 360 photo. There are two ways to capture a 360 photo of a car
using glo 3d platform. You can use the automotive capture mode
on the iphone or android app or you can use a professional DSLR camera or your smartphone
native camera and capture a video and convert it to a 360 photo using our windows and mac app.
Using a mobile device is the fastest and easiest way, so we start with that.
We're using a gimbal to keep our phone more stable as we move around the car.
A gimbal like this depends on where you live, may cost around $100.
This would be a great investment to capture a smooth 360 photo,
but no worries if you don't have it. You can also use a 360 interior panorama camera
to capture the interior 360 photo.
This depends on where you live may cost anywhere between 400 to 600 US dollar.
A great investment to create high-resolution interior 360 photos.
Having all said, if you don't have any of these, that's fine,
all you really need is your smartphone. Once you open the glo 3D app and press
on capture, select automotive capture mode. In this mode, you can see purple guidelines. You
always want to make sure you start from the widest side and go around the car in the form of a circle
and try to end up at the same point. You could do this by marking your start point,
Press record and as you go around the car at a relatively stable pace,
you always and always keep the center of the car on the center of your guidelines.
At the same time, you want to make sure to do your best effort to move on an imaginary circle around
a car. If you are a car dealership or you have the availability, we recommend having a dedicated area
and mark the ground with a circle to increase the quality of the end result.
Once you're back to your first position, you just press stop and save the file.
This completes the exterior 360 photo capture process.
If you like to use a professional camera, you can do the same process
using simply your camera or smartphone and take a 360 video going around the car.
If for any reason you don't have access to the car, you can always ask the person that
has access to the car to capture a video going around the car and send it to you
as a video file. You can process it later. If you'd like to add an interior 360 photo of
your car to the virtual tour, now you can place the 360 camera inside the car at the desired
locations and capture the 360 photo. You can also capture more single 2d photos
using your DSLR camera or photos from your mobile to later add them to the virtual tour of the car.
Step 2. One of the exceptional features of our platform
is the full capability of editing from both mobile and desktop devices on both windows and mac.
So whether you have an iPhone, android, windows, or mac, you can use any of
these platforms to do the editing process. The other exceptional benefit of a platform
is the extreme interface similarities between all these access points.
You don't have to learn each separately and once you learn one of them, you can do it all.
For this tutorial, we're using glo 3d mac app,
but again, if you have windows or mobile devices, the principle is exactly the same.
You can download our software from windows or mac app store or simply go to our website and click on
applications to download your choice of software. Once you open the software for the first time,
you will enter the home page. If you use a mobile device to
capture the 360 photo, you should be able to see the 360 photo of the car here.
Click on the three dots and select edit 360 photo. If you use a DSLR camera and captured multi images
going around the car choose multi-image to 360 photo.
In this video we will continue with the edit 360 photo but on the description,
you can find tutorials on how to use video to 360 photo and multi-image 360 photo.
Once in edit mode, on the right, you have few tabs to adjust filter, crop, background adjusts,
alignment or hotspot. you can also choose to create a loop or change
the rotation direction using available buttons. You always want to start by cropping the 360 photo
and then adjust the photo using different options such as contrast and brightness.
You can also use the trim option to remove any unwanted frames from your 360 photo
such as overlap frames that cause unwanted jumps in your 360 photo.
Also, the background feature is a great way to keep the focus on the car.
Our Ai-powered background adjustment allows you to remove background, blur the background, or adjust
it with available images or upload your own image. It is a very easy-to-use process so I will
not go over it in detail, however, we have dedicated videos that will go over this feature
in more detail and I will put a link on the top of this video for you to look at.
You can also use the auto-alignment process for the horizontal or vertical
axis alignment to create a smoother 360 photo. You can also add interior 360 photos by clicking
on add interior 360 photo and upload the 360 photo of the car.
You have the choice to add more interior hot spots and add more interior 360 photos.
This is a great feature, especially, if you are creating a virtual tour of a large SUV, heavy
machinery, boats or aircraft. Once you're done with other edits, it is time for the hotspots.
In each hotspot, you have a general video and general media that can refer to the car.
These could be a specific sheet or an accident report or a promotional video.
You can also add hotspots to mark a specific section of the car and offer more content.
Start by going to the frame you want to start the hotspot and click on add hotspot.
Move the hotspot to the desired location, click on the three dots, and make it start.
Then go to the last frame and move the hotspot to the desired location and mark it as the end.
Then go to the middle frames and try to relocate them to the desired location.
Our platform will automatically connect
these different hotspots to locations to create a smooth string.
Once you're done with setting up the location of the hotspot, then you can click on the three dots
and choose options such as change color, delete the string, or add content.
Let's add content. Here you can add an interior 360 photo, text, URL, image, or a pdf.
Choose your content selection and click save. Now you have completed your first hotspot
you can add up to 10 hotspot to any 360 photo in addition to the general video and general PDF.
Once your edit is complete, click save.
Share and embed a 360 photo.
Once you capture and edit your 360 photo, you can use it in many many ways.
You can do this from the web or directly from a mobile or desktop app.
In this video, we'll show you how to share or embed from a web browser but have in mind,
you can also do this from a mobile or desktop app. Go to glo3d.net, log in to your account.
Here you can see your latest 360 photos. You can click on the car and here you can click
on the share icon to see available options such as copy link to send it to anyone.
You can also copy embed code or share it to social platforms or you can click on
the three dots for exporting to gif video or downloading single frames or multi-frames.
If you choose the embed option, you can design the size of the embed
very similar to a youtube video and embed it to your website. Once again, you can access
these options via desktop or mobile app too. I hope you liked the video. If you have any
questions regarding this video or how to use the platform feel free to add your questions here as
a comment or email us at infor@glo3d.net Thank you for watching.