Make Virtual Tours – how to get started? If you were ever wondering how to do that, this article is for you!

As a drone pilot, you’ve developed a skill that not only satisfies your own personal interest in aviation and technology, but that is also extremely marketable.

But not every drone enthusiast is in it to make money. In fact, for the best pilots and aerial photographers, monetizing their skill was a happy accident, an unintended, yet positive byproduct of what was initially just a genuine interest and hobby.

Create Virtual Tours with Kuula – whether you have shot a series of 360 photos in physical space (house, office, etc…) or you rendered the panoramas using 3D software – you can upload the resulting images to Kuula and turn them into immersive, interactive presentation.

Virtual tours were never easier to create. Kuula Virtual Tour editor will let you create them using your phone and you can build them right on the spot, in the interior that you capture.

Virtual tours in real estate are a proven way to immerse prospective buyers and drive sales. A virtual tour allows you to build a 360 narrative, giving buyers the freedom to navigate around a listing and view it from every possible angle.

Now there’s another technology being used to set listings apart and draw attention to a property’s unique characteristics: drones.

The real magic happens when you combine the power of virtual reality with aerial photography to create virtual tours from above.

The digital age is fully upon us, and each day, emerging technologies make that more and more evident. This is true even in pockets of industry we never thought would be affected – the ones for which we could not have ever imagined an alternative way of doing business.

We are excited to announce that Pisofttech, producer of Pilot Era and Kuula has agreed on a partnership. The engineering team from Pisofttech is working on Pilot Era to make it possible to upload 360 photos straight from the camera to Kuula. This will make creating 360 Virtual Tours using Kuula even faster.

It’s been an amazing year at Kuula so far. Last week we were chosen as one of 6 finalists to join the 2019 Recurring Revenue Conference, in Marina del Rey, California. We’re now very excited and honored to announce that we won the “Best Early Stage Company” award. Among steep competition, we won the most votes! All of the hard work is paying off and we’re very proud.

We are happy to announce that Kuula and Insta360, the world leader in producing 360-degree cameras, have agreed on a partnership. Our goal is to deliver the best quality virtual tour capture and editing solutions for our clients and customers.

Happy Holidays from the Kuula team! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

We’d like to take this moment to thank you for being part of Kuula community and to wish you and your loved ones a very happy Holiday Season! This was a remarkable year and we’d like to thank you for that!

Martin Kulhavy keeps going to the Lofoten islands in Norway to take stunning 360° captures. The Virtual Tour that he created will allow you to explore the archipelago even better than before.

Kuula Virtual Tour editor update – we just added new features to Kuula Virtual Tour editor!

The latest update includes functions such as background sound loops and interactive audio, inline images, custom hotspot icons, custom fonts and nadir/zenith patches. With those features, you will take your Virtual Tours and VR Presentations to the next level!

3D VR images are now supported by Kuula. 360 spherical images are cool when viewed in a Virtual Reality headset. But what is even cooler are 3D images!

With 3D VR images you can not only look around you but also get a feeling of depth. There’s nothing like it for a feeling of true immersion.

The best way to create a 3D VR image is to use one of the cameras that supports it – like Insta360 PRO or Detu Max. Otherwise, most 3D rendering software can render in stereo and you can also make 3D game screenshots using NVIDIA Ansel.

Kuula now supports 3D images. Just upload them just as you would any other 360 images, put on your VR headset and enjoy!

This feature is available to all users – PRO and free. Here’s a tutorial with more information about this function.

What if you could you improve your Virtual Tour, make it more immersive and engaging, with one click? Now you can do that, thanks to our new Animated Transitions feature!

Replace image in virtual tours and posts – since we launched the Virtual Tour editor, a lot of you have been asking for this feature. And now, it’s here!

WebVR comes to Kuula – we’re happy to announce the release of the most anticipated feature of 2018.

How to upload a 360 photo on Kuula? For all 360 enthusiasts out there, we made a quick video to show how to do it. It’s super easy!

Register now and make Kuula the home of your 360°photos! We have a lot of cool features, including filters, Tiny Planet editor, lens flare effect and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It’s the place to be if you want to get noticed! ✌️✌️✌️ Find inspiration, give feedback, share your 360° work. Give it a try today!

How to upload a 360 photo on Kuula? If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at contact@kuula.co and explore Kuula tutorials for more information and tips here.

We just launched a new feature on Kuula: support for regular, non-panoramic images. You can now upload custom floor plans, maps or cover images to your tours & add hotspots to them in the same way as you would add them to 360 photos. We hope this will help you in building great virtual tours!

Recently we updated Kuula introducing changes to the Virtual Tours user interface and work flow. We believe it’s a step towards making it easier to upload and manage photos and virtual tours on Kuula for both our PRO and free users. Here’s a guide to what’s has changed.

Do you write posts on Medium? If yes, you’ll be happy to know that, thanks to Kuula, you can now embed 360 photos on Medium in your Medium stories. It’s also very easy: to see how, keep reading!

With the rise of Virtual Reality, immersive content is getting increasingly popular on the web. Facebook, YouTube, WordPress and others started to support 360 content in the past months and now you can embed interactive 360 photos on Medium in your Medium posts!

Ruben Frosali is an artist from Italy, but now he lives in Japan. He is involved in improving and pushing his 360/VR imageries further, both artistically and technologically. In this article, he shares what techniques he uses to transform 360 images into amazing futuristic VR experiences.

We‘re happy to announce Kuula’s biggest feature release – the addon editor. You can now enhance 360 images by adding icons, labels, hotspots that connect to other posts, or with interactive cards featuring video and links. You can create engaging, interative 360 presentations and virtual tours in minutes!

360 Image Download – is now available on Kuula. A lot of you asked for this one! You can now download a copy of any of the images you posted on Kuula.

How to do it?

A 360 image download from Kuula is easy. Just go to the editor and find the “Download image” button at the very bottom. Click on it and your image will be automatically downloaded on your computer.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at contact@kuula.co and explore Kuula tutorials for more information and tips here. Also, for more inspiring content visit Featured Photos.

Happy Holidays from Kuula and a million thanks for being with us! During this Holiday Season, we wanted to take a moment to say Thank You for being loyal to Kuula and extend our warmest wishes to you and your family.

Amazing things happened at Kuula this year. We launched Collections and Virtual Tours. We created the Embed Editor that allows to customize and brand your posts. We launched a VR app, we added New Lens Flares, a Batch Upload and many more.

The sun & lens flare is an image effect you can add to your posts. With this effect you can make your photo look much more dynamic in a few seconds. It’s unique for Kuula and it’s very popular among our users who used it on thousands of uploaded posts!

While we are working on some big features coming soon to Kuula, we recently deployed a number of smaller changes based on your feedback. Here’s a list of what is new!

Martin Kulhavy shares his 360 photos from Lofoten in Norway, where he spent a couple of weeks traveling. His 360 photography is exceptional. Let him take you to this scenic place and start exploring.

Virtual Tours – we are excited to introduce you to our new feature. Virtual tours will help you organize your posts and share them with others. Click on the photo below to see a live example.

Sharing 360 photos doesn’t have to be public. You can upload 360 photos to Kuula and keep them unlisted. Only people with a direct link will be able to view your Unlisted posts.

If you need to share your 360 photos privately with clients, co-workers or family, Kuula is there for you and will help you stay private. All you need to do is to sign-up for a PRO account.

Once you’re a PRO user, you will be able to upload, view, and share your 360 images — privately. Simply upload a 360 photo and choose UNLISTED, instead of allowing your 360 photo to be public.

If you want to share it, go to the individual Unlisted post page on Kuula and copy the link from the browser address bar. Once the link is copied you can send a link via email, IM, or in a text message on your phone. People will receive the link that will take them to a page where they can view your 360 photo privately.

If you want to share more than one private photo at a time, you’ll need to create an Unlisted Collection. Then, send a link to it the same way as you do with an individual 360 photo. If you would like to learn more about Unlisted Collections, read our tutorial.

Many of you asked us for a Batch Upload function to be able to post & organize photos faster. Since we always listen our users’ feedback, we’re happy to announce that the 360 Batch Upload is here!

360 Batch Upload on Kuula is very simple to use, but has some powerful functions. Watch this short (40 sec) tutorial to see how it works:

James Boddie created an awesome and historically acurate reconstruction of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas. The resulting 360 panoramas show what Alamo looked like back in 1836, just before the famous battle. In this article James gives us some historical background and explains what tools he used create the model and how he rendered it in 360 using Blender. Enjoy!

JL Mast is an artist and illustrator from Lille, France. He works with MARVEL on titles including Daredevil / Punisher Infinite, A Year of Marvel: Amazing Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy & Avengers Millennium. He loves 360 drawing and as part of the Inktober initiative, he decided to draw a new image everyday this month. In this article, he shares his 360 drawing workflow and techniques.

In this article, I would like to tell you about how NVIDIA Ansel 360 game screenshots and Kuula can work together. Kuula is already home to thousands of 360 images made with Ansel and you can easily upload and share yours! Keep reading to see how to do it.

Event though Instagram does not support 360 photos – this is what Kuula is for 🙂 – you can create tiny planets of your 360 images using Kuula Tiny Planet Editor and post them on your Instagram account.

360 game screenshots are a relatively new thing. The technology behind them is called Ansel and it was released by NVIDIA in 2016. It allows gamers to capture in-game shots in 360 degrees using a simple keyboard shortcut. Since it’s release, thousands of 360 game screenshots have been shared by Kuula users.

En este espacio me gustaría hablarles sobre la buena conexión que puede tener Nvidia Ansel junto a Kuula y su servicio para fotografía en 360°. Kuula alberga miles de imágenes en 360° realizadas con Ansel. Usted también puede subir y compartir sus fotografías en 360° del juego. ¡Quédate en este post y veras como hacerlo!

The most important factor for online success is to engage your audience. Your content needs to stand out in the crowd and 360 photos will help you achieve that! 360 photos are interactive, engaging and relatively new, which makes users very curious about them. Our mission at Kuula is to allow you to embed 360 photos on your website and easily integrate them with the rest of your content.

With 359 million blogs and over 500 million monthly visitors, Tumblr is probably the most popular microblogging platform in the world. People love it because it’s very easy to use and has a very active a lively community. Can you share 360 photos on Tumblr? Now, you can!

Samsung Gear 360 is one of the most popular 360 cameras available on the market. A lot of users on Kuula upload photos made with that device. However, before you start shooting and sharing 360 panoramas with a Gear 360, here’s one important thing you need to know about it’s stitching process to avoid problems with displaying your photos.

Some of you approached us saying that you would like to have the Auto rotate mode on your 360 embeds. We listen and we have integrated this feature to Kuula Embed Editor!

Example of a 360 embed with the Auto rotate setting