Live-Map 360° Virtual EcoSystems

Our ecosystem concept is a virtual reflection of the real world co-operation that exists between municipalities and their constituent private businesses. We build a public trunk that showcases the municipality's chosen assets, and also provides the foundation for growth of private business branches.

The resulting virtual ecosystem is a dynamic, functional gateway through which users can access and explore both the overarching municipality and its constituent businesses.

No.  While there is overlap of capabilities—most notably the use of 360° media—standard virtual tours and our virtual ecosystems serve different fundamental purposes, making them more complementary than alike. More specifically, traditional virtual tours are built for indoor, single-property walkthroughs where users click arrows to move a few feet at a time. That enables real estate brokers to display room dimensions, floor plans, and interior layouts.

Our virtual ecosystems, on the other hand, are built for sharing strategically targeted narratives by destination marketers. With the integration of live maps, they excel outdoors by enabling site selectors, developers, and event planners to instantly jump between distant sites, explore surrounding amenities, and determine routes to transit hubs in a single, cohesive interface.

Simply put:  Traditional virtual tours sell a room or maybe a building; our virtual ecosystems sell entire destinations.

Total costs vary significantly based on the site counts, capture methods, and assembly components. Rather than invoicing the production and assembly cost at the time of delivery, we structure our proposals for multi-year engagements to divide that ordinarily up-front cost evenly over the term of the engagement.

Also, virtual ecosystems are exceptionally robust digital media requiring not only significant bandwidth but more importantly a licensed viewer application, live map API integrations, custom back-end scripts, and our own proprietary intellectual property that, together, make the final experience possible. So there is a variable monthly hosting fee that ensures we maintain licensing and the specialized cloud infrastructure needed to reliably deliver this heavy media to users.

For reference, the estimated cost of the City of Sanford virtual ecosystem displayed above would be $12,224 annually over a 3-year term. Please contact us for a precise quote based on your own specific requirements.

Turnaround time depends heavily on the number of featured sites and weather conditions. Expect a typical 15 to 20-site virtual ecosystem to take 2 to 4 weeks from the start of photography to final delivery.

A virtual ecosystem is created to execute your strategic vision using our technical methodology. Accomplishing that goal requires a collaboration that heavily relies on resources provided by your in-house experts (your economic development staff or marketing team) including site selection, targeting narratives, creative suggestions, and the like. In turn, we provide the specialized photography, assembly, and hosting that transform the strategic vision and resources into a fully realized, highly immersive virtual ecosystem.

Creating a virtual ecosystem requires mastering a diversity of specialized photography methods—aerial and surface, panoramic and orthomosaic—as well as advanced web and extended reality (XR) development. Both conceptually and technically, it is an innovative marketing tool that leverages novel "tech-forward" methodology which very few providers have mastered. That is likely why you haven't heard of or seen it before.

We are based in Central Florida, operating actively in the Tampa and Orlando areas. For municipal or large-scale destination projects, we are available to travel nationwide or internationally.