Where is the tour visible on Google?

The Google Virtual Tour can be viewed on many different platforms. Click on any platform below to jump to each specific explanation:

Google

Maps – Mobile

Maps – Desktop

Search – Mobile

Search – Desktop

Google:

This is the main one. Below is an explanation of how users view the Google Virtual tour in Google Search & Maps, demonstrated in both mobile & desktop experience.

Or, if you’re more of a video person, click here to see videos

Maps – Mobile

New Street View Thumbnail

The “Street View” Thumbnail is updated and acts as an access point to the virtual tour

Additional Panoramic Entry Image

When you pull up your Google Listing ino (by clicking or swiping up), this new horizontal image thumbnail takes you into the tour

New 360 Category of Photos

If you select “photos” you will have the 360 degree view option

Immersive Virtual Tour Experience

You can click into any photosphere thumbnail and this is what you see. Click the arrows to advance

Maps – Desktop

If you scroll down to “photos”, the virtual tour has its own section. Clicking into this takes you into the tour (see screenshot to the left)

Any photo with a circle arrow is a new “entry point” to the virtual tour. In the main screen, you can drag the screen 360 degrees and click the arrows to advance through the tour

Search – Mobile

From Search, any photo you select will take you into all the categories of photos and you can navigate into the tour.

Once you click into any photosphere, this will be your experience. You can drag the screen in 360 degrees and click the arrows to advance

Search – Desktop

If you click “photos” from your Google Listing in Search, you will be taken to this next screen:

Once in photos, you can either select the 360 degree category or click into any image with the circular arrow

From here, you can drag the screen in 360 degrees and click the arrows to advance

FAQ

ARE THERE ANY ONGOING COSTS?
No, there are no ongoing costs. The only cost associated with getting your Street View Trusted Virtual Tour completed is the ONE-TIME-ONLY set up cost. This cost is paid to the photographer at the shoot. The only ongoing costs that could be associated with this service would be an optional add-on such as setting up a schedule to get your Virtual Tour re-shot on an ongoing basis or embedding additional content into your tour.
HOW LONG WILL MY COMPANY’S “SEE INSIDE” VIRTUAL TOUR BE HOSTED IN GOOGLE SEARCH AND MAPS?
CAN I DO THIS MYSELF?
No and Yes. Using a Street View Trusted photographer is the only way to get your company’s virtual tour to appear in the “see inside” section of Google Search and Maps. You can create a photosphere with the street view app on your android phone. But this photosphere will not be connected to any other photospheres and will only be visible in “photos” and not “see inside”. The virtual tour completed by a Street View Trusted photographer will also be higher quality.
CAN I PUT THE VIRTUAL TOUR ON MY WEBSITE?

As you can see there are many ways that Google shows of your virtual tour whether it’s on desktop or mobile, search or maps there are lots of ways to see it. If you want more information about Google virtual tours go here.