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Virtual Tours: Making your Business Relevant

rawtoast | March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments

Relevant is defined as: “having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand” (Merriam Webster).
Relevant 360° virtual tours can be defined as: “having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand through the use of immersive technology”.
Virtual tour scenes are significant because they are not showing a limited view of the property [...]

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Virtual Tours Created For The New 1890 Inn Website

rawtoast | January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

Bay Area VR created high resolution full screen 360° virtual tours for the 1890 Inn when they relaunched their redesigned website January 4th. The owner of the the 1890 Inn knew that virtual tours offer an outstanding return on investment due to previously having virtual tours on their old site. With the advancement [...]

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Rockaway Beach Creek Wallpaper

rawtoast | December 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Click the image and when it opens in a larger window, right click and save for a 1600 x 1200 wallpaper.

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Virtual Tour of Esplanade Avenue Where Apartments are Falling

rawtoast | December 19, 2009 | 1 Comments

Pacifica is getting national media due to the the cliff erosion behind some of the apartments on Esplanade Avenue. I thought I would take a few tours of the “scene” at 4:00 p.m. on December 18, 2009. There were news reporters and hard hats everywhere. I tried to get close up to [...]

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Team California Wins 1st Place in Communication and Architecture in the Solar Decathalon

rawtoast | October 13, 2009 | 0 Comments

Team California is IN THE LEAD for this year’s Department of Energy Solar Decathlon!
Ever since I donated 360° virtual tours to the project, it’s been exciting to follow Team California. CNN did a recent expose on the event that you should read. Team California had a fair share of exposure in the article.
An [...]

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Virtual Tours of Pacifica Fog Fest 2009 | Kid Zone, Castles, Crowd

rawtoast | September 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

For the 2009 fogfest, I decided to take my gear and “test the waters” of a large, semi-fast moving, crowd. And a major part of my test was using a mono-pod with my panoramic camera set-up. It was the first time I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone of my sturdy (level) tripod [...]

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Bay Area VR Contributes to the Refract House Project

rawtoast | September 23, 2009 | 0 Comments

My company was contacted by alumni of Santa Clara University in early September about collaborating on  the Refract House Project .
The REFRACT House is an innovative solar project created by Team California (CCA and University of Santa Clara architecture and design students) in the 2009 Solar Decathlon, a high-profile competition sponsored by the U.S. Department [...]

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