Prices and Process
The virtual tour process
Our virtual tours are created from 360 panoramic photographs linked together into a tour and combined with information in the form of popups of text, images, audio, and video. These are different from other virtual tours developed by building a digital model reconstructing a site. Creating those virtual models can be very time-consuming, expensive, and require special skills and equipment to display. 3D History Trek tours are easy to display on devices or VR headsets are budget friendly to help historic sites and museums compete and stay relevant in a competitive digital world.
3D History Trek can often photograph a site in a few hours. The photographs are then processed and assembled into a tour. Depending on how busy our schedule is, the first draft of the tour is usually finished in around two weeks and returned to the client. One round of editing is included in the price to make sure that you get the product that best works for you and your audience.
Prices
There are a number of variables that impact the price of a virtual reality tour. These include the number of photographs, popups, and other design elements of the 360 tour. A project might also involve travel to your location, research, or other factors. A basic starting point is listed below.
A basic virtual reality tour of 5 -10 photographs is $650. This includes the 360 photographs linked together as tour that can be imbedded in a website as well as uploading those images to Google Streetview. Each photograph can also be provided as a panorama formatted for sharing on Facebook. This price refers to a tour consisting only of photographs without popups of information and images. Contact us for more details on how we can create an engaging tour of your site or educational material.
Immersive virtual reality creates an emotional connection by bringing a site to life, no matter where in the world you are viewing it. We hope to partner with people using this connection to build support for preserving our priceless cultural heritage.
This panorama is titled The Last Chapter. It is a much-loved, 1930 library that was on the National Registry of Historic Places. In front of the building is the demolition equipment about to tear the building down. The building is the Hamline-Midway Library in St. Paul, MN. The building is now gone, but the fierce fight put up by preservations and neighbors shows how much people care about cultural heritage and the stories that these sites embody.