Wired Magazine has recently launched an iPad edition of the magazine. They contacted us as they were excited about adding our virtual tours as interactive content on their iPad edition. They chose to use the tours we had created for the European Space Agency to accompany a story about the ESA in both the iPad and print editions of the magazine.
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Take a Virtual Tour of the Chelsea Club at Chelsea FC
The Chelsea Club at Chelsea FC is not simply a gym, but also a private members club with events, private dinners and access to the Marco Pierre-White restaurants at Chelsea FC. (more…)
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HONDA virtual tours at the Eicma Motorbike Show, Milan 2010
For the last couple of days, Eye Revolution have been in Milan, the world’s fashion and design capital. We have been commissioned to shoot the HONDA stand at Eicma 2010 – the 68th International Motorcycle Show, where Honda are showcasing their range, launching new bikes and unveiling a brand new concept bike.
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London International Fine Art Fair Virtual Tours
Eye Revolution were commissioned to shoot 360 virtual tours of the London International Fine Art Fair at London Olympia this year. The internationally renowned fair brings together serious collectors of fine and decorative arts with exhibitors from all over the world.
The 360 virtual tours are intended to give potential visitors and exhibitors a flavour of what they can expect from the surroundings and stands when attending this annual event.
Click the link to view the London International Fine Art Fair exhibition virtual tours.
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Westminster Cathedral Virtual Tours
Eye Revolution were delighted to be invited to create a cathedral virtual tour for Westminster Cathedral. One of the UK’s most famous places of worship, and an architectural masterpiece.
The Cathedral
The Catholic church was only restored in the mid 19th century in England and Wales. Following this, Catholic Cardinals were keen to create a new home for Catholicism in London. Work got under way in 1895. The new Cathedral was completed in 1903, though the design is firmly rooted in cathedrals from centuries before. The Cathedral features the highest (34 metres) and widest (18 metres) nave in the country.
Cathedral virtual tours
The tour shows you the grand public areas, as well as giving you a glimpse behind the scenes. These private areas include the vestry and archbishop’s house.
There are many benefits for places of worship in featuring a virtual tour on their websites. Viewers from far and wide can explore the cathedral. Whether it’s people exploring from a religious perspective or those who want to take in the magnificent architecture. Plus, those who want to immerse themselves in the history of these incredible buildings. Virtual tours are incredibly useful for educators to use as classroom aides. Students across the globe can have the benefit of exploring a cathedral across continents, zooming in to see the detail and learning more.
Cathedral virtual tours also provide a snapshot of the cathedral at a particular moment in time. They will provide a historical document for the church’s archive. For example, this Westminster Cathedral virtual tour shows the extensive restoration work carried out in the nave and gallery above. All of this is fascinating for future generations and archivists to look back on.
Other church virtual tours
If you’re interested in cathedral and church tours, you may want to explore the tour we created for St Magnus the Martyr, the historic Anglo-Catholic Wren church in the City of London. This tour is extensive – incorporating many different features such as:
- 360 images
- Aerial 360 – drone view above the Thames showing the position of St Magnus
- Intro video – introducing the church and providing geographic and historical context
- Hi-res ‘zoomable’ images – so viewers can see key areas in incredible detail, such as the high altar.
- Photogrammetry – a 3D model of the old London Bridge which is displayed within the church.
- Video shorts – engaging content such as interviews with the organist and clips of the choir.
- Info pop-ups – offering extra information about elements and artefacts in the church.
Click to view the St Magnus church virtual tour.
Still taken from the St Magnus the Martyr church virtual tour We hope you enjoy our Westminster Cathedral virtual tours – don’t forget to zoom in to see the detail!
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Hornsey Town Hall Virtual Tours
Hornsey Town Hall is in the centre of Crouch End, North London. The architect Reginald Uren won a competition beating 217 other entrants for the chance to design this important public building. His scheme was for an ultra modern building, with clean lines breaking with the Victorian classicism which characterised many town halls around the country. He avoided excessive ornament, using sculptures (visible on the front of Barclays Bank, once the Gas showroom, and the old electricity showroom now Spiazzo’s deli) marble and metalwork to soften the geometry of the buildings. The building was opened in 1935 and won an RIBA bronze award,
Since 1966, when most of the council functions were moved to Wood Green Town Hall, Hornsey Town Hall has fallen into disrepair and the council chamber sealed off due to concerns about asbestos. Most Crouch End residents have never had the chance to see inside this amazing building. Now Eye Revolution have created a set of virtual tours which allows visitors to look around the Town Hall. They can view around the council chamber and see the view previous mayors would have seen (albeit in a state of decay), they can also tour the theatre including backstage, dressing room and the green room, the old planning application map room, ticket office, foyer and even a couple of loos!
The shoot was fascinating – Eye Revolution founder Will Pearson says “Being able to explore the Town Hall in its current state of decay was visually fascinating. It seemed a bit like the Marie Celeste – abandoned whilst still in use, with old building planning applications just lying around gathering dust – including the one for Hornsey Lane Bridge (known locally as ‘Suicide Bridge). I found an old (full) beer bottle which looked like it dated from when the Town Hall was still in use. It can be seen on the sill in the dressing room.”
Click the link to take the Hornsey Town Hall virtual tour and see inside this gem of Art Deco architecture.
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Doctor Who Virtual Tour
We’re delighted to present our Doctor Who virtual tour of TV sets for The Underhenge & The Pandorica from Doctor Who.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is the world’s longest-running sci-fi series – having first aired on the BBC in November 1963. Still incredibly popular, the series is now on its 15th doctor.
The Underhenge
The fictional Underhenge is underneath Stonehenge, and the Pandorica is a prison underneath it – meant to contain the most feared being in the world. An alliance of the Doctor’s enemies (including Daleks, Cybermen and many more) intended to trap the Doctor inside the Pandorica. We created a TV set virtual tour of the Underhenge. This was the largest set built at Upper Boat Studios in Wales. The scriptwriters intended it to have an ‘Indiana Jones’ feel to it. This was a dark and sinister place without natural light found underneath Stonehenge. The designers filled it with stones and cobwebs draping down to create a “ghostly” look and feel. The 360 photography reflects this atmosphere.
TV Set Virtual Tours
As a fan, a film or TV set virtual tours fulfils a valuable role in allowing you to engage with a series more closely. Fans can explore at leisure, rather than relying on a camera angle during live action to give them the viewing opportunity they’d like.
If you’ve enjoyed this Doctor Who virtual tour, why not explore our Tardis virtual tour. You can also see other TV and film set work in our blog and portfolio. For example, The Hour, Shameless, Celebrity Big Brother, the Newsroom at BBC Broadcasting House, or BBC Studioworks.
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Doctor Who – The Tardis Virtual Tour
We’ve been inside the Doctor Who Tardis™ to create a Tardis virtual tour of the famed police box time machine. The BBC commissioned us to photograph an interactive tour which would allow them to feature lots of exciting Doctor Who content for users to explore, including video tours of the Tardis, history and facts, free wallpaper downloads, concept art and a special messages from one of the characters.
This is the Eleventh Doctor’s TARDIS – the Doctor in this case being played by Matt Smith. The console room of his TARDIS has a mad, alien steampunk vibe. Far from being entirely ‘space-age’ and futuristic, the surfaces have an organic feel rather than the smooth glass and metal one might expect from a time-travelling spaceship.
The photographer on this particular shoot has been a Doctor Who fan since he was a boy and so having the opportunity to shoot the Tardis caused great excitement in the Eye Revolution studio!
TARDIS Facts
- TARDIS stands for “Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space”
- Although the Tardis can change its form, it became stuck in the disguise of a 1960s London police box. These were well known in Britain when the show was first broadcast.
- None of the various Tardis props used over the years have been true to the original police box design – all have had small variations in design and colour.
- The TARDIS is a trademark of the BBC, and although the police challenged this, the decision was made in the BBCs favour.
- The interior evolves along with the Doctors. Earlier designs were simple and futuristic, but the interiors in the series from 2005 onwards used a more steampunk feel.
Tardis Virtual Tour
Click here to see the TARDIS virtual tour. You can also take a closer look at The Underhenge and The Pandorica in our other Doctor Who virtual tours here. You can also enjoy a nostalgic catch up of Doctor Who episodes on iPlayer here.
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Imperial College Virtual Tours Complete with Student ‘Tour Guide’
We’re delighted to share the news that the Eye Revolution university virtual tours for the Imperial College campuses have gone live. They’re part of an impressive interactive map and video tour of the university, which has been developed by Imperial’s in-house Web Developer, Karsten Seipp. The tour gives potential students from all over the world the capability to undertake an extensive online tour of the buildings and departments.
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The most expensive hotel in the world
Explore our virtual tour of the most expensive hotel in the world – The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
20,000 people from 50 nations spent three years creating the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi. Rumoured to have cost around £2 billion to build, it is the world’s most expensive hotel.
The opulent surroundings feature 6000m² of 22 carat gold leaf; over 1,000 Swarovski crystal chandeliers (including some of the world’s largest chandeliers) and the world’s biggest dome, being higher than St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
And in the background, humans and machinery labour to maintain the impression of luxury. So the 13 restaurants are serviced by not 13, but nearly 130 kitchens and over 300 kitchen staff from chefs to kitchen porters. These 300 are just a small proportion of the 2,600 staff – three to each guest, who take care of guests’ every need. Including ferrying them around the massive landscaped gardens (over 1,000 acres) by golf cart. There are 140 elevators, so there can be no crowding, and you won’t be tripping over other people’s towels on the 1.3km private beach. And that’s assuming you didn’t reserve your sun lounger in advance.
The decadence doesn’t stop at the surroundings and service. Albino caviar is incredibly rare, with just 6kg available each year worldwide, costing £30,000 per kilo. The Emirates Palace gets 2 of these.
The rooms start at around £300 per night. But if you’re genuine or at least Hollywood royalty, then there’s always a rather special package, which will fly you and your guest here first class, give you somewhere to rest your weary head for 7 nights and chauffeur you around Abu Dhabi in a Maybach when you’re not being pampered in the spa. To ensure you get value for your money, you’ll also be offered a day trip to Iran in a private jet to create a Persian carpet, another to the Dead Sea in Jordan and a third to collect a pearl from the deep sea in Bahrain. If you’ve the time and the inclination, then you’ll be able to fit in a ‘Royal Golf experience’ at Abu Dhabi Golf Club and a session where you make your own perfume. If this isn’t enough, you’ll also be lavished with rare pearls and gifts from Holland & Holland Sporting Guns (which usually have a 2-3 year waiting list!).
And the price tag to open sesame this week of luxury – $1,000,000 USD.
For those whose budgets don’t quite run to this level, we’re delighted to be able to offer a glimpse into the most expensive hotel in the world with this virtual tour – click the link to view the Emirates Palace 360 virtual tour.
Please note that the information above was correct at the time of writing, but may have since changed.
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Routemaster Bus Virtual Tours
If someone from abroad is asked to describe items synonymous with London, it’s likely that a red London bus would be in the top three. The Routemaster is the bus people tend to think of when describing this London icon – hardly surprising given that they were on the capital’s streets for 50 years. Now just 16 remain in service on two central London ‘heritage routes’, though these too will have disappeared by 2017. A long way past London Transport’s original retirement date of 1978! (more…)
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Look before you book at the Crowne Plaza Kensington Hotel
Crowne Plaza Kensington in London have taken advantage of Eye Revolution’s world-class virtual tour service to allow their online visitors to explore the hotel before booking. The virtual tours show potential guests around the hotel restaurants and bars as well as the rooms and suites. The hotel virtual tours also highlight the Crowne Plaza’s excellent business facilities including boardrooms, conference rooms and break out areas. (more…)
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Saadiyat Island Cultural District Exhibition
Saadiyat Island is an incredible development underway 700 metres off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Cultural District is intended to draw discerning travellers from all around the globe to visit the cultural attractions on offer. These include Frank Gehry’s largest Guggenheim Museum, planned for completion in 2014, and The Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2012. Zaha Hadid has designed a spectacular performing arts center and world-class concert hall. The Cultural District Exhibition 2009 showcases the designs and latest plans for this multi-billion dollar development. The Saadiyat Island Cultural District Exhibition virtual tours allow online visitors to explore the plans and 3D models of Saadiyat Island from wherever they are in the world.
Please click the link to view the Saadiyat Island Cultural District Exhibition virtual tours.
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Get inside the Miles Mohawk Cockpit
From the archive – this is a much older aeroplane virtual tour, and is not representative of the 360 virtual tours we produce today. However, we’ve chosen to keep this on our site as visitors have indicated they still enjoy exploring this tour and/or find it a useful learning resource. Please click here to see more recent examples.
We created a cockpit virtual tour for the RAF Museum in Hendon. The Miles M.12 Mohawk is part of the Milestones of Flight Exhibition which guides visitors through some of the key milestones in the history of aviation – focussing on the first 100 years of flight.
The Miles M.12 Mohawk – a brief history
To give a little bit of background, the Miles M.12 Mohawk is a two-seater aeroplane which was commissioned by American aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1936. He wanted the aircraft for fast travel around Europe on business trips with his wife. The plane is predominantly wooden and the seat backs move – this feature was included to allow the cockpit to convert into a bed in case the Lindberghs found themselves in a remote area and needed to stay overnight.
Only one of these planes was ever made, and this was presented by Lindbergh to the British Government at the outbreak of war in 1939. It was used as a communications aircraft (though not extensively) and was then written off in a landing accident returning to Spain from a rally in 1949. After more than 20 years, the aircraft’s remains were found, and were acquired by Mr. Louis (Lew) Casey of Charlottesville, Virginia (Curator of the National Air & Space Museum USA). In 2000 Mr Casey donated the aircraft to the RAF Museum and it was shipped to the UK where further restoration work was carried out before it was finally added to the Milestones of Flight collection in 2008.
The aeroplane virtual tour shoot and post-production process
The cockpit of these small aircraft are tricky to shoot as you’re in a tiny space (the photographer on this shoot was over 6′ tall which makes it tricky!). It’s vital to ensure that the shots are beautifully clean and clear. This means that visitors to the RAF Museum viewing the tours in the on-site kiosk can really feel as if they’re inside the cockpit. The sky was carefully retouched in (along with all of the reflections) to give a more exciting feel to the virtual tour. We think the results do the aircraft justice – but please do explore the fullscreen virtual tour yourself. Click here to view the Miles Mohawk virtual tour.
If you like this aeroplane virtual tour, you may also wish to view our Percival Mew Gull aeroplane cockpit virtual tour at the RAF Museum.
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Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle Virtual Tours launched
Image © Press Association
Eye Revolution founder and head photographer Will Pearson was at Buckingham Palace for the launch of the new Royal Website – www.royal.gov. Will’s virtual tours of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle were unveiled as the ‘surprise’ element of the website by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in front of an audience of 200 people, including Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web and David Starkey, the historian and renowned chronicler of English kings and queens.
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Virtual Tours of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
PLEASE NOTE: This is an older page and there is an updated version available here.
We’re delighted to announce that our virtual tours for St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle have been launched. Eye Revolution shot the high definition virtual tours and designed and created the interface which displays the tours. You can view the tours on the St George’s Chapel website: http://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/
Dating from 1348, the chapel is steeped in history, and is the burial place of Henry VIII as well as the executed Charlies I. If you take the virtual tour of ‘The Quire’, scroll down and you’ll see where Henry VIII is interred. You can see where the Knights of the Garter (including Margaret Thatcher, and Prince William, and who have included Edmund Hillary and Winston Churchill in the past) sit in chapel, and view their stall plates showing their coats of arms and titles.
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Eye Revolution founder named as one of The Courvoisier Future 500
Eye Revolution’s Will Pearson has been named as one of the Top 100 of The Courvoisier Future 500. Here’s a little bit about The Courvoisier Future 500….
“Last Year, Courvoisier, in partnership with The Observer, led a search for the UK’s most innovative business brains and creative talent. The results of the search led to the creation of The Courvoisier Future 500 – a vibrant online network of 500 of the UK’s most dynamic individuals. This was always meant to be an organic initiative, reflecting the rapidly moving nature of this environment, so this year more new talent has been invited to join the original group.”
We’re delighted that Will has been listed in the Top 100 of The Courvoisier Future 500, and look forward to an exciting year as part of the network.
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32 Metre / 105 foot Panoramic Print
We have recently been commissioned to provide a panorama that could be reproduced at a massive scale – 32 metres (105 feet) for Cable & Wireless. The image was to be displayed at a new Cable & Wireless headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, which has been beautifully designed by an interior architects firm. The Client selected this Shanghai Skyline panorama shot by Eye Revolution photographer Will Pearson…
Most images when reproduced this large will break up, losing quality. By starting with a massive file size (of over a gigabyte) we were able to reproduce the image at 32m with a minimal loss of quality. This is fantastic for interior designers and architects, who can commission images which we can ensure are able to be reproduced at massive sizes, as prints or even as a wallpaper feature.
From the solid wall, the large-scale print then continues across the glass of the meeting room wall:
With the sunlight flooding in through the glass from the meeting room behind the print:
To see a high-res ‘zoomable’ version of the print, click here and use your mouse (or the buttons below the image) to click and zoom in and move the image around.
If you’re interested in large-scale prints, please contact us.
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The Edison Los Angeles – Nightclub Virtual Tours Launched
We’re very pleased to announce that we have completed a virtual tour commission for The Edison Downtown in L.A. The venue is quite incredible – it was built in 1910 as L.A.’s first power plant, and then eventually fell into disrepair. The new owners dredged it from underneath several metres of water, and set about creating a brand new bar and lounge for the Downtown LA crowd, complete with original architectural features and even burlesque shows. We were tasked with creating some high-definition virtual tours which conveyed the achingly cool and sultry atmosphere! We created an interactive floorplan with The Edison’s soundtrack playing over it so that users can navigate around the different areas and feel orientated within the space. The tours also function as a useful sales tool for party booking.
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Eye Revolution Create Aircraft Cockpit Virtual Tour for the RAF Museum
The Percival Mew Gull is a 1930’s British racing aircraft capable of speeds up to 265mph. The aircraft holds the world record between London – Cape Town – London, a record which stands to this day in its class. The Mew Gull at The RAF Museum is displayed suspended from the roof of the museum as part of the Milestones of Flight exhibition, meaning the public cannot access the inside of the cockpit to feel what it was like to pilot one of these aircraft. We were commissioned to create a high definition virtual tour which shows a full 360 degrees around the cockpit of the plane. This tour is displayed in a kiosk in the Museum so visitors can feel a little closer to the experience of the pilots of yesteryear!
Please visit the link to view the RAF Museum virtual tour.