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For heritage trusts, tourism boards and attractions

More than one place to tell, and one way of telling it.

A single site has one story and a hundred ways of failing to tell it. A trust, a board or a membership body has that problem several times over, and a different answer at each one. This is the same thing at every site you hold, built to one pattern, under your name.

A cathedral and its spire at dusk inside a 3D guide, with the spire height called out and a timeline beneath it
A cathedral and the town around it, with the spire measured on the 3D and the story set against a date line. Our own build on footage that already existed.

The problem you already know.

Each place you look after made its own decision about interpretation, at a different time, with a different budget. One has an app nobody installs, one has boards from 1998, and the one that most needs telling has a laminated sheet by the door.

What we make from it.

Four things, and a client can open all of them from one link.

One pattern, every site

The same build at each place you hold, so a visitor who used it at one of your sites already knows how to use it at the next, and so your team learns it once.

The story at the spot

What happened told at the point on the site it happened, rather than at the gate, which is the one thing a board by the door cannot do.

Open before they travel

The same link works from a classroom, a living room or the car park outside, so it does the work of persuading as well as the work of explaining.

Yours to put your name on

Your brand across all of it, and one place to change something when a fact or an opening time changes.

Your name on it, ours off it.

Across every site, on your own domain where you want it. Where a site has its own identity inside your group we can carry both marks, and the caption says which part is whose.

The evidence, and whose it is.

Every figure here is published somewhere you can open and check. Where we have no figure, we say that instead.

  • 11 places are built and open on this site already, each one opening in a browser with no app and no account.published by us on 3d-visitor-guide.html.
  • Every one of them was built from footage that already existed rather than from a commissioned flight, which is what makes trying it on a second and a third site a smaller decision than the first.published by us on case-study-heritage-3d-visits.html.
  • None of the examples was commissioned by the place it shows and none implies a partnership with it. We would rather show our own builds and say so than borrow somebody else’s name.our own published note on every one of them.

How it runs.

Start with one site

Usually the one that is hardest to explain, because that is where the difference shows and where your own people will judge it.

We build it and you take it apart

With your curators and your guides, on the facts as much as the feel. What they correct is what makes the second one quicker.

Then the rest, to the same pattern

Each new site is the same build with its own story in it, under the same name, maintained in one place.

Said plainly, before anybody asks

  • None of the examples on this site was commissioned by the place it shows, and none of them implies a partnership with it.
  • Pictures of the past are credited archive images where they exist and labelled AI illustrations where they do not.
  • Guided visits and prices inside a demo are samples, labelled as samples on screen, and entry is not sold through them.
  • A capture measures what is standing. It is a record and a way of telling a story, not a conservation survey.

Open something before you decide.

Nothing here asks for a budget. The 3D Visitor Guide, in full.

Questions we get asked.

How is this different from the 3D Visitor Guide page?

It is not a different product. That page is for one site deciding whether to do this. This one is for an organisation deciding to do it across several, which is a different conversation about pattern, upkeep and whose name is on it.

Do visitors need an app?

No. It opens in a browser on a phone, which is the whole point: nobody installs an app for a single visit, and most visits are single visits.

Who writes the words?

You do, or your curators do, and we build around them. We will draft where that helps, and nothing goes live that your people have not read.

Can it work without any internet on site?

The guide is built to open before anybody travels, which is where most of its value is. On-site behaviour depends on the place, and we would rather look at your signal than promise you something about it from here.

Does it need a drone flight at every site?

Not always. Several of the examples here were built from footage that already existed. Where a flight is needed it is often an operator you have already used.

What does it cost?

Partner terms are agreed per relationship rather than off a rate card. Where we quote a starting figure it sits on the page for that service, and that is where a conversation about yours begins.

Book a demo.

Open one of the eleven on your own phone first. If it would work at the hardest site you look after, that is the one to start with.