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VR Tours recently ran the Heart Research Institute's walk-through virtual tour at their end of year dinner Illuminate through a VR headset mirrored onto a big screen TV. The Illuminate dinner was aimed at exploring the drive behind scientific excellence: curiosity. Curiosity is one of HRI's key values. With it, HRI researchers wonder 'why'? and 'what if'? as they explore, investigate, and learn more about ways to detect, prevent and treat cardiovascular disease.

The VR experience ran by VR Tours' Owner and Founder Nick Walker, was an opportunity for the dinner guests to 'virtually' explore the scientific labs and facilities of the HRI which otherwise would not be possible. The virtual tour was also projected onto a big screen TV via an HDMI mirroring cable so that other dinner guests could see what the user with the headset on was seeing in the VR headset. This set up is ideal for events or for trade show booths. If you are interested in having VR Tours develop a similar VR solution for your company, please contact us and speak to Nick Walker.

We've just launched a new virtual tour for Gardens R Us garden centre in Kingsgrove, Sydney. The virtual tour allows you to walk through their entire centre which features Sydney's largest indoor plants range, tropical plants, seedlings, outdoor displays, and the on site Wagyu Cafe. For the first time we also produced a Google virtual tour and linked it to Gardens R Us' Google My Business listing for greater exposure.

Check out  the virtual tour at www.gardensrus.com.au.

Yes we do web site design and development too! One of our long standing clients is S.Antonio Da Padova Village in Ryde, Sydney. They are a specialist aged care provider who provide high quality aged care services targeted for Sydney's Italian population. They are largely funded through a not for profit charity. They came to us because their web site was very old and had not been updated in many years. We rebuilt the entire web site from scratch designing and launching a new mobile responsive, CMS based web site which would allow them to makes updates to it themselves. 

You can view the newly launched web site at http://www.s-antonio-da-padova-trapani.com

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VR Tours has just completed a project working with Melbourne based The Summer Foundation. The Summer Foundation's mission is to create, lead and demonstrate long-term sustainable changes that stop young people from being forced to live in nursing homes because there is nowhere else for them. They establish, evaluate, and document demonstration projects in order to encourage others to replicate these projects to increase the range and number of housing and support options for people with disability.

VR Tours worked with the summer foundation to build a virtual walk-through experience which would showcase the many design features of their disability apartment living via their web site. The aim of the virtual tour was to allow visitors to walk the apartment as if they were actually there. With the integration of navigational walk-through hot spots, an interactive floor plan, and pop up information hot spots which also featured a video clip, the virtual tour allows a visitor to be educated on the cutting edge disability design features of the apartment. VR Tours also produced a range of high resolution still photos for use in the Summer Foundation's other online and offline marketing collateral.

The virtual tour of the Summer Foundations Hunter apartment can be viewed here.

Its been a long time coming but the new VR Tours web site finally went live today! Featuring a fresh new modern mobile responsive look and improved layout, updated samples for all of our products and services, links through to all our social media portals including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google+ which will allow our visitors and customers to keep updated on all that's going on at VR Tours, and the new web site communicates information about the company and its products in a much clearer way. Also, built into the new web site is a customer contacts database with email marketing and newsletter capabilities.

"Along with our social media portals such as Facebook and Twitter, this will allow us to better communicate latest news, product updates and special offers to our customers. We now have the ability to stay in touch with our customer base much more easily then we were able to before." said Nick Walker, Owner of VR Tours.

"The launch of our new web site and social media pages are an exciting step for us as a business, and it has been a long time coming!".

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The virtual tour of The Mater hospital's Maternity Ward in North Sydney went live today and was the remaining element left to integrate into their new web site. The virtual tour show cases all of the Mater's high quality Maternity facilities including a delivery suite, family room, post natal room and patient lounge areas. This will allow expecting mums to be able to check out the facilities before they come to The Mater to give birth.

VR Tours in conjunction with George Patterson Y&R advertising giant have completed work on two HD virtual tours of HMAS ANZAC Frigate and HMAS Armidale Patrol Boat for the Australian Navy's new Defence Jobs web site. This project involved photographing the Frigate HMAS ANZAC at the Garden Island naval base in Sydney, and HMAS Armidale in Darwin. The purpose behind the web site and virtual tours is to aid potential new recruits or people interested in joining the Navy, to get a better understanding of what serving in the Navy is like and so attract new recruits. The virtual tours allow users to go 'on board' real working Navy ships and to have a look around which you otherwise would not be able to do. The Royal Australian Navy virtual tours are this month's Featured Tour and can be viewed by visting these links - HMAS ANZAC and HMAS Armidale.