VIRTUAL REALITY TOURS & EXPERIENCES
A virtual reality tour invites wine lovers to take a guided interactive and immersive tour and encourages them to visit you. You can showcase your wine tasting area, cellar, restaurant, accommodation, conference facilities and any other facilities you may have. The panoramas can include a voice over and soundtrack together with interactive hotspots to navigate around the tour and to access more information.
A virtual reality experience can include various wine estates, a wine route and can also include gamification and rewards. Wine lovers would need to either find a hidden object or answer a few questions on what they've experienced in order to stand in line to win a prize. The Drink Chenin Day VR experience required wine lovers to find the hidden #drinkchenin badge at one of the wine estates in order to stand in line to win a prize. Try it out and see if you can find it.
The virtual reality tour below of Ormonde Wine Estate is narrated by the owners wife who is also the marketing director and feels as if she is taking you on a personal tour.
A virtual reality experience can include various wine estates, a wine route and can also include gamification and rewards. Wine lovers would need to either find a hidden object or answer a few questions on what they've experienced in order to stand in line to win a prize. The Drink Chenin Day VR experience required wine lovers to find the hidden #drinkchenin badge at one of the wine estates in order to stand in line to win a prize. Try it out and see if you can find it.
The virtual reality tour below of Ormonde Wine Estate is narrated by the owners wife who is also the marketing director and feels as if she is taking you on a personal tour.
How to navigate a virtual reality tour:
- A virtual reality tour can include a soundtrack with a voice over. There is a button on the top right of the screen where the music track can be paused.
- The panoramas auto-rotate. On the top left of the tour you can pause the automatic rotation and zoom in and out.
- If viewing a virtual reality tour on a desktop or laptop, to pan around each panorama, use your mouse and click on the panorama and then click and drag to look around.
- Each panorama has interactive links and hotspots. Some of the links are used to navigate through the tour as if you were physically walking around. Scroll over the hotspots to see the title of the hotspot which indicates where the link will take you.
- Other links provide additional information such as links to websites, videos, social media, etc. Additional links can be added at any stage.
- On the bottom left you can expand the thumbnails of all the panoramas and click on one to take you directly to a chosen panorama.
- On the bottom right you can easily share the VR tour via email, to Facebook and Twitter and expand the tour to full screen.
- If watching a virtual reality tour on a mobile phone, use your finger on the screen to scroll around or use the phones accelerometer and move the phone around to get a full 360 view.
- While viewing on a mobile phone, click on the goggles icon on the bottom right of the panorama, insert your mobile phone into a pair of virtual reality goggles and view in a more immersive way.
How can virtual reality tours be viewed?
It is important to note that virtual reality is not just an experience that is restricted to expensive virtual reality goggles. VR can be experienced on multiple platforms and devices and can be shared very easily.
- Web VR - anyone can experience VR via a standard web browser making it accessible to anyone with a PC, laptop or desktop
- Mobile phones and tablets - by using your finger to scroll around on your screen or using the accelerometer to view VR content while moving your mobile device around
- Social Media - VR content can be easily shared and viewed on Facebook and other social media platforms
- Embedded VR - VR content can be embedded in email newsletters, blogs and websites
- ‘Cheap’ VR goggles - Branded cardboard VR goggles or VR Box type goggles where your mobile phone is inserted into can cost under R100
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The Drink Chenin Day virtual reality experience required wine lovers to find the hidden #drinkchenin badge at one of the wine estates in order to stand in line to win a prize. Try it out and see if you can find it! You can virtually visit some of South Africa’s top Chenin Blanc producers through this fun and interactive virtual reality experience.
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The J.C. Le Roux virtual reality tour showcases this magnificent experience in Devon Valley in the Western Cape and gives potential visitors an interactive walkthrough of all the areas including the exterior, reception, tasting room, shop and restaurant. For tour companies and tour guides, it gives them the confidence to book a high class experience that their clients will enjoy as well as use the tour to promote their tours.
STAYCATION 1-2-3 encourages travelers to spend one, two or three nights away discovering a wine region which is one, two or three hours drive away from home. The trips and itineraries are shared as a virtual reality tour and promoted via various online travel sites and social media. As an example, have a look at a one night trip to Elgin which included a stop at Peregrine Farm Stall, a MCC tasting at Charles Fox Wines, lunch at South Hill Winery and an overnight stay at Old Mac Daddy.
Besides unique and special wine experiences, if you have accommodation you'd like to promote, let us know if you'd like to be included in a future Staycation 1-2-3 itinerary. Drop us a note via the contact form below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Besides unique and special wine experiences, if you have accommodation you'd like to promote, let us know if you'd like to be included in a future Staycation 1-2-3 itinerary. Drop us a note via the contact form below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
VIRTUAL REALITY WINE TASTING
Virtual reality wine tastings are intimate wine tastings with the winemaker filmed in virtual reality where a wine love feels as if they are with the winemaker as they describe their wines to them. These virtual wine tastings bring the tasting room to the dining room and can be watched with virtual reality goggles or on a website. To further enhance the experience, we suggest wine lovers have the wine with them and taste them together with the winemaker for a more interactive and personal experience.
What does a virtual reality tour and wine tasting cost?
A basic interactive virtual reality tour with up to 20 panoramas of your wine estate could cost as little as R 7 500.00 to create. Writing a script and adding voice overs and music will increase the cost but would it would be worth the extra budget as it certainly makes it more personal and engaging.
Virtual reality wine tastings cost around R750 to create and we suggest including up to three wines per tasting.
Let's discuss the options over a glass or two of wine. Drop us a note and I'll get back to you asap.
Virtual reality wine tastings cost around R750 to create and we suggest including up to three wines per tasting.
Let's discuss the options over a glass or two of wine. Drop us a note and I'll get back to you asap.