Build a Tour for Immersive View

Learn how to build a tour specifically for viewing in VR using Stereo and Mono images with 360º and 180º views.

Build a Tour

The most basic tour will use a skin that has an Enter VR button. The skin added
in the Web Output settings will not appear in the immersive view. To have a skin
in immersive view, a second skin must be added to the project in the VR
properties in the Web Output.

1. Import the images.
2. Link the tour nodes
   together.

   

3. Add a
   Web Output.

   

4. Add a skin. This skin will need an Enter VR button. All built-in skins have
   this button.

   

5. Select Enabled in the VR properties.
   

   

6. Export the project by generating the output. The Integrated Web Server will
   open the project in your default browser. Alternatively, upload the project
   to gnome.cloud.
7. Test the project.
8. In the VR Browser, click the “Enter VR” button to start the immersive view.
   To exit, click the Exit VR button.

Add a VR skin

A skin is not needed for the immersive view. If a skin is not added, tour nodes
will appear as interactive spinning globes. They will have tooltips revealing
the tour node title. The spinning globes can be resized by changing the scale
for Default Node Hotspots.

To add a VR skin:

1. In the Web Output Properties, find the VR properties. Make sure Enabled
   is selected.
2. Choose one of the built-in skins (feather_vr.ggsk or venis_vr.ggsk). Or
   add your own skin.

In the immersive view, there is a button that appears when viewing up. Clicking
it will hide or show the skin (except node hotspots). Deselect, Floating Skin
Menu Button in the VR properties to hide it. Or change its location from the
top to the bottom.

This button uses the action
VR Skin Visibility.

There is also an Exit VR button which uses the Exit VR action.

Test the Project

You can test the project a few ways:

• Uploading the project output folder to your web server then open the project’s
  URL in the headset’s browser
• Use the Integrated Web Server
• Upload to gnome.cloud

Using the
Integrated Web Server
(Tools > Integrated Web Server), click on the link for Address (ssl). This
will open the web server page. But, you might encounter a warning like
this:

You can continue to click through to the get to the site.

Using the gnome.cloud, share the link to the Meta Quest app to automatically
open it in the Quest Browser. Or go to the URL using any VR browser.

Once in VR, click the headset button (Enter VR) to enter the immersive view.

See also

• Exporting for VR
• Working with Stereo Panoramas
• Preview and Test in Immersive View