The Courvoisier Architectural Punch Bowl at 33 Portland Place, December 2009 In 1694, Admiral Edward Russell threw a party where the centrepiece was a punchbowl of epic proportions – the 6,000 guests were served punch from a huge specially-adapted fountain by a boy rowing across the lake of punch in a boat! In 2009 Courvoisier, […]
The most expensive hotel in the world
Click here for the Emirates Palace 360 virtual tour 20,000 people from 50 nations spent three years creating the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi. Rumoured to have cost around £2 billion to build, it is the world’s most expensive hotel. The opulent surroundings feature 6000m² of 22 carat gold leaf; over 1,000 Swarovski crystal […]
Routemaster Bus Virtual Tours
If someone from abroad is asked to describe items synonymous with London, it’s likely that a red London bus would be in the top three. The Routemaster is the bus people tend to think of when describing this London icon – hardly surprising given that they were on the capital’s streets for 50 years. Now […]
Flash Player Virtual Tours – Why Flash 10?
There are lots of formats for virtual tours – Flash Player, Quicktime, DevalVR, Pangea, Java… and so we’re often asked why Flash is the recommended solution for most virtual tour projects. We’ve put together a basic FAQ explaining a little bit about Flash, why it’s a great format for 360 virtual tours and what additional […]
Look before you book at the Crowne Plaza Kensington Hotel
Crowne Plaza Kensington in London have taken advantage of Eye Revolution’s world-class virtual tour service to allow their online visitors to explore the hotel before booking. The virtual tours show potential guests around the hotel restaurants and bars as well as the rooms and suites. The hotel virtual tours also highlight the Crowne Plaza’s excellent […]
Saadiyat Island Cultural District Exhibition
Saadiyat Island is an incredible development underway 700 metres off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Cultural District is intended to draw discerning travellers from all around the globe to visit the cultural attractions on offer. These include Frank Gehry’s largest Guggenheim Museum, planned for completion in 2014, and The Louvre Abu Dhabi in […]
Look Around the London College of Fashion
Following the Ma_sters Tours earlier this year, Eye Revolution have now created virtual tours for the London College of Fashion campuses. Now potential students, lecturers, schools and anyone else who’s interested in the workings of this famous fashion institution can explore various settings within 5 separate LCF locations. Please click the links below to view […]
Get inside the Miles Mohawk Cockpit
We’ve recently completed a cockpit virtual tour for the RAF Museum in Hendon. The Miles M.12 Mohawk is part of the Milestones of Flight Exhibition which guides visitors through some of the key milestones in the history of aviation – focussing on the first 100 years of flight. To give a little bit of background, […]
Eye Revolution’s New View
Eye Revolution have moved – we’re still in Crouch End but now have a bigger, better studio. We’re enjoying a wonderful view over Alexandra Palace and Muswell Hill, but wanted to share it. So we’ve rigged up a webcam, updating every 5 seconds, showing off our new view. It’s a whole lot of sky, and […]
Eye Revolution Charity of the Year Scheme 2009 – entries closed and a charity chosen
Earlier this year we announced that entries were invited for the Eye Revolution Charity of the Year Scheme 2009 (click here to read about the scheme) where one charity would be selected to have a set of virtual tours created at no cost. The final date for applications was at the end of April, and […]
London College of Fashion Masters Exhibition
The virtual tours for the London College of Fashion Ma_sters exhibitions have just been launched. These two exhibitions were held at the Mall Galleries in Central London and showcase the final shows for the Masters degree students.
Rail Tech Training Centre Brought to Life
Rail Tech are a Railway and Signal Engineering Training specialist, based in East Anglia and counting Network Rail and all of the Major suppliers to the Rail Industry among their clients. They briefed Eye Revolution to create a virtual tour which showcased their training facilities to potential clients. Please click here to view the Rail […]
It’s a London Revolution!
We’re delighted to announce the launch of London Revolution – a website showcasing high definition London virtual tours linked geographically via a map. There are already more than 70 London virtual tours on the site, with more being added each week.
Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle Virtual Tours launched
Image © Press Association On Thursday 12 February Eye Revolution founder and head photographer Will Pearson was at Buckingham Palace for the launch of the new Royal Website – www.royal.gov. Will’s virtual tours of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle were unveiled
Eye Revolution Virtual Tours Feature in a Music Video
Dallas rapper Freeky T’s new music video for Tipspell features virtual tours by Eye Revolution. The artists performed in front of a green screen, and then the virtual tour backgrounds were dropped in.
Could YOU be the Eye Revolution Charity of 2009?
Every year, Eye Revolution undertake a charity project – creating a set of virtual tours for a UK-based charity that otherwise could not afford to have them. This way, the charity can provide valuable web content to its audience, and conserve funds to directly benefit the charity’s recipients. We feel that this is a valuable […]
Virtual Tours of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
We’re delighted to announce that our virtual tours for St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle have been launched. Eye Revolution shot the high definition virtual tours and designed and created the interface which displays the tours. You can view the tours on the St George’s Chapel website: http://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/
Eye Revolution founder named as one of The Courvoisier Future 500
Eye Revolution’s Will Pearson has been named as one of the Top 100 of The Courvoisier Future 500. Here’s a little bit about The Courvoisier Future 500…. “Last Year, Courvoisier, in partnership with The Observer, led a search for the UK’s most innovative business brains and creative talent. The results of the search led to […]
Virgin Mobile Stores Virtual Tours
Eye Revolution have created a series of virtual tours for Virgin Mobile Stores. The virtual tour intends to showcase the Virgin Mobile stores customer experience to potential new staff. The store pictured is Virgin Mobile in Bristol Broadmead. The tours have just gone live on the Virgin Mobile website. You can visit the link to […]
New virtual tours of Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Eye Revolution were commissioned to create a set of virtual tours of this stunning events venue in Old Street, London.
32 Metre / 105 foot Panoramic Print
We have recently been commissioned to provide a panorama that could be reproduced at a massive scale – 32 metres (105 feet) for Cable & Wireless. The image was to be displayed at a new Cable & Wireless headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire, which has been beautifully designed by an interior architects firm. The Client selected […]
The Edison Los Angeles – Nightclub Virtual Tours Launched
All images © Will Pearson. We’re very pleased to announce that we have completed a virtual tour commission for The Edison Downtown in L.A. The venue is quite incredible – it was built in 1910 as L.A.’s first power plant, and then eventually fell into disrepair. The new owners dredged it from underneath several metres […]
Hotel Virtual Tours with Map Interactive Interface
We have created a series of hotel virtual tours of the grounds of the famous Furnace Creek Inn Hotel in Death Valley, California (a Xanterra resort). The Inn at Furnace Creek is situated in the most dramatic desert, well known for its stunning landscapes like Zabriskie Point and the Devil’s Golf Course. The Furnace Creek […]
Eye Revolution Photography featured in The Guardian Online
All images © Will Pearson. The Guardian’s ‘Great Modern Buildings’ series uses a virtual tour shot by Eye Revolution’s Will Pearson to showcase the ‘Gherkin’ (the Swiss-Re building at 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London). You can see the article and the virtual tour at www.guardian.co.uk/panoramic/page/0,,2189984,00.html
The Third Space Health & Fitness Club tours go live!
We’ve been working on a series of tours for The Third Space, which is an exclusive health and fitness club in London’s Soho, near Piccadilly. The client realised that if potential customers could see inside the Third Space at the early stages when they’re looking for a gym to join, then the state of the […]
VR Mag features Cullen Pet Cemetery Virtual Tour
The latest issue of VR Mag (31) features a short article about Will Pearson’s virtual tours of Cullen Pet Cemetery on the Scottish coast. You can read the full article here: www.vrmag.org/issue31/Cullen_s_Pet_Cemetery.html
Eye Revolution Create Aircraft Cockpit Virtual Tour for the RAF Museum
The Percival Mew Gull is a 1930’s British racing aircraft capable of speeds up to 265mph. The aircraft holds the world record between London – Cape Town – London, a record which stands to this day in its class. The Mew Gull at The RAF Museum is displayed suspended from the roof of the museum […]
VR MAG Interview
We’re delighted to announce that the May issue of VR-MAG (the trade magazine for the virtual tour industry) features an interview with Eye Revolution founder and panoramic photographer, Will Pearson. To read the full article, please copy and paste this URL into your browser: www.vrmag.org/vartist/guest_artist/WILL_PEARSON_S_TRANSFIGURATION_OF_THE_COMMONPLACE.html You can also visit the main VR MAG site here […]
Panorama of the Week
This week, Eye Revolution photographer Will Pearson’s work is featured on the panoramas.dk site as the ‘Panorama of the Week’. This site is run by Hans Nyberg, a long-standing industry expert who features some of the best panoramic photography in the business. We’re thrilled to be included, and consider it a great compliment to have […]
New Eye Revolution Virtual Tour Development
After months of testing on over 40 different browser platform combinations, Eye Revolution are delighted to announce an exciting new development – virtual tours delivered in an even more accessible format – Flash 9. Please click the link to read the full article about Flash virtual tours.
Kingston Hospital Surgical Unit
We’ve just completed a set of tours and an interface to join them together for the NHS. Kingston Hospital’s New Surgical Centre opened in October 2007, and is a state-of-the-art facility. The tours are intended to orientate patients, doctors and nursing staff within the centre, and so we created them in Java to ensure that […]
Lo-Profile Club, Soho
We’ve recently created some more virtual tours for QSoft (owners of the Gaydar brand). They have a new club called Lo-Profile based on Wardour Street in Soho, and upstairs is Profile Soho (which is a bar / diner / cafe) who we created tours for earlier in 2007. Lo-Profile is a funky location and was […]
Aston Villa Football Club Virtual Tours
We’ve completed a set of virtual tours of the Aston Villa FC stadium at Villa Park, which was a fantastic location to shoot. We’ve lost count of the number of envious football fans we’ve been approached by! You can use the football stadium virtual tours to explore Aston Villa FC in 360 degrees!
Welcome to the Eye Revolution Blog!
The blog is intended to give the site a live element – where we can talk about new projects, provide information on virtual tours, and any other news that takes our fancy! We might even have some technical posts when we’ve got the time, so watch this space. To start off, I thought we could […]
