
When you’re done you can share your Story Spheres story in a blog post, on social media, or any other place that you typically post a link. It’s possible to upload multiple recordings. Story Spheres lets you upload short audio recordings in which you describe to viewers what they’re seeing, the history of what they’re seeing, and the significance of what’s in the scene they’re seeing. Story Spheres is a neat tool for adding audio recordings to 360 imagery. Alternatives to Google Tour Creator Story Spheres There is a search function on the gallery as well. Just click the explore tab on Story Spheres to start browsing through the stories. In addition to using it to make your immersive VR stories, you can use it to browse a gallery of stories made by other Story Spheres users.

Story Spheres is a tool that I include below in my list of alternatives to Tour Creator. The video sources for City Walks are clearly labeled in the lower-right corner of each screen. That does mean that there isn’t any interactivity built into virtual walks like you might experience in a virtual reality experience. That’s not meant as a knock on the site as it is a nice site. At the start of each walk you’ll see some quick facts about the city that might help you understand a little more about what you’re seeing during the walk.Ĭity Walks is essentially a really nice display of street-level YouTube videos with some additional menu options overlaid on them. You can go for virtual walks in the daytime or at night. You can experience the cities with or without sound. City WalksĬity Walks is a neat website where you can go for a virtual walk in more than a dozen cities around the world. See my screenshot below for more information about that. In fact, you can find lots of YouTube videos that are intended for viewing in VR by simply refining your search to 360 or 180 VR in YouTube’s search filters.

National Geographic’s YouTube channel has more than 50 videos that are designed to be watched in virtual reality. Unfortunately, there is not any audio accompanying the views in Sites in VR. The imagery can be viewed in VR headsets or without them.
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Sites in VR is a free app that features immersive imagery of notable landmarks around the world.
