So I'm just going to walk you through the basics of taking a virtual tour if you've never done it before. Once you get to the landing page of the
tour that you want to take, scroll down and you'll see this media player. You'll also notice below that we do have audio described virtual tours
as well. So we'll select the play button here, and that's going to initialize the virtual tour, and
while it's loading, the first thing that I suggest that you do is go to the lower right corner here,
and where it says view view full screen on this box, click that and that's just going to
give you a more immersive experience. You'll also notice down the lower right that you can view it
if you have a vr headset, you can also share this through social media, and then there are a few
different views that you can see this in. Down here in the lower left you'll see that it says view
dollhouse, and if you click that it's just going to give you kind of a 3D model version
of this tour. You also have view floor plan which is an overhead view of the same tour.
But we're going to do this in the explore 3D space view. Then one last thing I should mention,
if you click this up arrow it's going to open a highlights so this is a kind of a quicker
way that you can get around the tour and just kind of see some of the highlights: living room,
that that sort of thing, exhibit room... And so if I were to click this right now it would jump me
forward to that part of the tour, but I'm going to walk you through it instead so we can close that.
Now you'll notice that it looks like you're there in person. If you click in space anywhere,
left click in space and then drag your mouse while holding that button down,
it's going to pivot you through this virtual world so you're going to be able to see it
in 360 space. You can look up, you can look around. So that's how you
change your perspective, your view. If you want to move forward in this space,
you'll notice that when I move my mouse over this white circle here it's going to light
up, and if you click that, it's going to move me forward to where I clicked. You don't have to
mouse over a white circle, you can just click forward, and it's going to move you
where you click, but that just kind of guides you through the tour. Another thing that you'll notice
are these little yellow highlights here, and they're going to be throughout the tour, and if
you put your mouse over it—you don't even have to click it—it's going to pull up this pop-up window
that has some more information. And so there's text here, and when you mouse over that you're
going to get a scroll bar, and you can scroll through the text to read it, and then there's
also an image on this particular one, so when you mouse over the image you'll see a magnifier glass,
and if you click that it's going to bring the text and the image up full screen.
So it's a little easier to read that way. Then once you're done reading it, you can click x,
and that's going to take you back to the to the view here. So I'm just going to move forward in
space, and you can do this at your own pace. You can look around at whatever you choose. Anytime you see
a highlight, definitely stop and read what it has to say about that. I'm going to come
into the exhibit room here and show you one more thing. You'll notice that some of the highlights
will have pictures, some of them will just have text, and then some of them will also have video. So
this particular one is going to take just a little bit longer to load, depending on your connection,
but this particular one has a video attached to it. So when you mouse over it you'll notice that it
brings up this video player with a play symbol, and if you click play it's going to show you some
some video that's associated with that content. You can view it in this pop-out window, or you can also,
as with everything else, click it and view it in full screen and then just press escape to get out
of it and then you're well on your way. If you want to zoom in to this text, for instance,
and you scroll your mouse, you notice that you have quite a bit of room to scroll and zoom in, and
so you can actually read even the small text down here. It may be a little difficult, but you can read pretty much everything on all those exhibits so it's a really great way to
read those, and so I encourage you to check out all the texts. You can read the titles on the
books even in the bookshelves when you get to that. So a lot of room for you to explore. So have fun.