College and University Virtual Campus Tours & Maps

VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOURS

Third Wave Digital creates custom virtual campus tours that help prospective students and families explore colleges and universities from anywhere. Each tour can combine 360-degree photography, aerial views, video, photo galleries, audio narration, interactive hotspots, and mobile-friendly navigation.

Virtual campus tours give institutions an engaging way to showcase academic buildings, residence halls, student spaces, athletic facilities, and campus life. Tours can support student recruitment, campus visits and orientation.

Virtual Campus Tours Features

Streamlined User Experience

Our updated interface delivers a seamless, intuitive experience that invites users to explore more of your campus, discover key locations, and stay engaged throughout their visit.

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Informational Hotspots

Clickable areas within the virtual tour can provide additional information about campus locations through text, photography, video, links, and optional audio narration.

Aerial View

Aerial footage offers a bird's-eye view of the campus, helping visitors understand the campus layout, surrounding area, and relationships between major buildings and facilities.

Video Integration

Schools can incorporate welcome videos, student stories, program highlights, and other multimedia content to strengthen the tour experience.Third Wave Digital manages every stage of video production, from concept development and scriptwriting to shoot planning, on-location production, and final editing.

360-Degree Campus Views

Immersive 360-degree views allow users to explore classrooms, laboratories, residence halls, student centers, athletic facilities, and other campus spaces from multiple perspectives.

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Mobile-Optimized Navigation

Third Wave Digital’s virtual campus tours work across smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers without requiring users to download an app.

Photo Galleries

Curated photo collections highlight key areas and events on campus. They can offer a visual overview of the campus and amenities.

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Endless Customization

Third Wave Digital customizes each virtual campus tour around the institution’s brand, campus layout and audience needs. Colleges can feature specific academic programs, facilities, student services, and calls to action throughout the tour.

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INTERACTIVE CAMPUS MAPS

Third Wave Digital creates custom interactive campus maps that help prospective students, current students and visitors explore important locations before and during a campus visit.

Maps can highlight academic buildings, residence halls, parking, dining, student services, athletic facilities and other key campus locations. Features may include custom illustrations, categories, layers, location details and directions.

Third Wave Digital's Interactive Campus Maps include:

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Dynamic Positioning

Users can pan and zoom to areas of interest using on-screen controls as well as their mouse.

Quick Preview Feature

Click or roll over Locations to reveal tags identifying the Location as well as items of interest “In this location”

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Location Hotspots

Clickable areas in the virtual tour provide detailed information about specific campus locations, including text, images, or videos.

Location Details

Open Locations and display additional information including Text description, photo slideshow and/or videos, lists of amenities, and related web links.

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Overlays

Add Graphic Icons to your map to quickly display featured amenities that appear in multiple locations across your campus.

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Dynamic Search

Searches both Location names and In this Location entries with results appearing as you type.

Google API Integrations

Google API integrations can add location-based functionality to your virtual campus tour or interactive campus map. These tools can support features such as directions, routing, geolocation, and map-based navigation.

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What is the difference between a virtual campus tour and an interactive campus map?

A virtual campus tour emphasizes an immersive visual experience that allows users to view and explor the campus spaces online, while an interactive campus map emphasizes locations, campus layout, directions, and wayfinding. The two features can also work together.

Don't have updated imagery? Third Wave Digital can help!

Third Wave Digital can coordinate, capture, and edit campus photography, aerial imagery, and video footage for a new campus map or virtual tour—or to refresh an existing experience. Learn more about our Campus Media Kit.