Virtual tours for factories, warehouses and workplaces
A site visit without the hard hat. Show candidates where they would work, customers how their order is made, and new starters the way round, safely and without stopping the line.
In short
An industrial virtual tour links 360° photos of each area of a site, with notes on what happens there, a site plan and, where it helps, a video of the machine running. Share it publicly for recruitment and sales, or privately by link for inductions and customers. Making it in Panoramr is free; hosting it without Panoramr’s branding costs from £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos.
- Photos needed
- 15 to 50 per site
- Sharing
- Public, or open only to people with the link
- Hosting
- From £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos
- Several sites
- Every site on one plan
How industrial sites use a tour
Recruitment
Candidates see the shop floor, the canteen and the locker room before the interview.
Inductions
New starters learn the way round, the fire exits and the muster point before day one.
Customers and auditors
Show the line, the clean room or the warehouse to customers who cannot visit.
Investors and open days
A tour of the new plant for investors, the press and the community.
What to photograph
Agree with your safety and security teams what can be shown. Keep confidential processes and screens out of shot.
How to take the photos- The gate, the car park and reception
- Each production area or line
- The warehouse and the loading bays
- The lab or quality area
- Fire exits, assembly points and first aid
- The canteen, lockers and rest areas
- Offices and meeting rooms
Two ways to get the photos
A tour is a 360° photo of each space, linked together. Who takes them is up to you.
Hire a professional
A 360° photographer shoots each space and hands you the photos. Many build the whole tour in Panoramr too, and hand it over to your account, ready to publish.
Take your own
With a 360° camera and a tripod, one press takes a whole room. Export the photos from the camera’s app and upload them.
What industrial sites use most
Notes, pictures and links in the room
A note on each area: what is made here, the PPE it needs, who to ask.
How it worksVideo in the scene
Play the machine running, on its screen or in a window, beside the still photo.
How it worksFloor plan with a live map
The site plan, with each scene pinned and the way the camera faces.
How it worksPrivate, or by link only
A hosted tour can stay private to you and the people you invite, or open to anyone with its link and kept off Explore.
How it worksFloors and areas
Group the rooms into floors or areas, such as Ground Floor or Gardens, so visitors can go straight to the part they want.
How it worksColleagues on the tour
Invite people to a tour as a Viewer, an Editor or an Admin, and choose what each role can open.
How it works
How a tour is made
- 1
Upload your photos
Open Create Tour, give the tour a name and drop your photos in. No sign-up and no card. They are prepared in your browser, and the tour uploads by itself when they are ready.
- 2
Design it
Choose a theme, then make it yours: colours, menus, buttons and the look of each hotspot. Choose where visitors start looking in each room.
- 3
Link the rooms
Add hotspots so visitors can walk from one room to the next, and add text, pictures, video or a floor plan where they help.
- 4
Keep it
Create a free account and the tour is yours. A guest tour is deleted after 2 days.
- 5
Put it online
Publish it free with Panoramr’s branding, or buy a Vault for it to take the branding off.
- 6
Share it
Paste its embed code into your website, and send its link by email or post it on social media.
What it costs
Making the tour is free. One site fits a Vault; a group with several sites hosts them all on a plan.
Free
£0
Publish up to 10 tours, 250 photos in all, with Panoramr’s branding.
- The free Default Theme, in your colours
- A Panoramr start screen and badge over the tripod
- Listed on Panoramr’s Explore page
- Embed it on your own website
Vault 36
Suggested£36 a year
Hosts one tour of up to 36 photos. Pay once for one, three or five years, or yearly until you stop. You need no plan.
- No Panoramr branding: no start screen and no logo
- Your own design in any theme, Pro themes included
- Your logo and words on the patch over the tripod
- Private, by link only, or listed on Explore
Pro
£99 a year
Several tours? Pro hosts 250 photos at once with no Panoramr branding, shared by all of them, on one bill.
- Upload up to 1,000 panoramas
- Host up to 250 panoramas with no Panoramr branding
- Every Pro theme on your tours
- Your tour in other languages, with a switch for visitors
- Download your tour as a ZIP, in your own design
- Your own branding, private or published
- Hand a tour over to your client
Questions
Can we keep the tour away from the public?
Yes. A hosted tour can be private to the people you invite, or open only to people with its link, and kept off Explore.
Can we show a machine running?
Yes. Play a video in a window from a badge, or on a flat surface inside the photo.
Can new starters use it for their induction?
Yes. Send them the tour’s link, with notes in each area on the fire exits, the PPE and who to ask.
Can several sites share one account?
Yes. The Pro or Agency plan hosts every site together without our branding.
How much does it cost?
Making it is free. Hosting it without our branding costs from £36 a year, in a Vault of up to 36 photos.
Ways to share it
On your own website
Copy the embed code from the tour’s Publish tab and paste it into your page. It works with WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and most other sites.
How to embed a tourBy its link
Send the tour’s address by email, put it in a booking confirmation or a newsletter, or post it on social media.
On Explore
Panoramr’s gallery of tours, with buttons to share yours on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and by email. A free tour is always listed there; a hosted one only if you want.
Only with your team
Keep it private while you work on it, and invite colleagues or your web designer to view or edit it with you.
Related industries
- Cars, Boats & AircraftSit buyers in the driver’s seat, the cockpit or the saloon from wherever they are.
- Offices & CoworkingFill desks and let floors: show the workspace, the meeting rooms and the kitchen before the viewing.
- Construction & ArchitectureRecord a site visit by visit, and show clients and investors the finished building before it is built.
Open the gates online
Make the site tour free, in your own design. You pay only to put it online without our branding.