Virtual tours on your website.

A 360° panorama is a single image that captures the full sphere of a location. Stored flat, it looks stretched and warped, an equirectangular projection. A panorama viewer maps that flat image back onto a sphere and shows the visitor a window into it, so dragging or moving the cursor pans the view as if they were standing in the room. The Poper virtual tour widget does this with its own WebGL renderer rather than an external embed: it samples the equirectangular image in a fragment shader and projects it through the current view angle and field of view. The viewer also detects whether an uploaded image is actually a panorama (wider than roughly 1.5:1) or a standard photo, and renders a regular photo with a subtle planar pan instead of forcing it onto a sphere. Because the renderer is built in, there is no dependency on a third-party viewer or hosting service.

The widget accepts uploaded scene images and treats images wider than roughly 1.5:1 as panoramas. Standard photos render with a pan treatment. Hosted-image URLs are also accepted if your images already live on a CDN.

A single panorama is one room; a tour is the whole space. The Poper virtual tour widget lets you build a tour from up to 10 scenes, each its own panorama with a title, description, tag, and a call-to-action button. You reorder scenes by dragging, and visitors move through them with the navigation built into your chosen layout. Within a scene you can place up to 5 hotspots. A hotspot is a marker pinned to a point in the panorama; it shows a title and a short description when a visitor hovers it, and it can carry an optional outbound link. Use hotspots to call attention to what matters in a space, a renovated kitchen, the view from a balcony, the capacity of a ballroom, and the per-scene button to drive the next step, such as booking a viewing or requesting a quote.

How a visitor looks around a panorama shapes how the tour feels. The Poper viewer offers two navigation modes. Cursor-follow gently pans the view toward wherever the visitor moves their pointer, which feels exploratory and invites browsing; it works well on desktop and on hero placements where you want the scene to feel alive. Grab-and-drag pans only while the visitor actively holds and drags, which feels deliberate and is closer to how map and photo viewers behave. Optional autoplay is available for 360-style navigation and is disabled in grab-and-drag mode. Pick the mode that matches the page: cursor-follow for an immersive showcase, grab-and-drag when you want deliberate visitor navigation.

The Poper virtual tour ships 12 layouts so the same scenes and panoramas fit very different page designs. Hyper Motion is a cinematic, HUD-style presentation with prominent hotspots. 360 Drag foregrounds the drag-to-explore interaction with guided navigation. Cinematic leans on bold transitions and storytelling. Glass Portal is a frosted-glass split view that pairs the panorama with scene detail. 3D Tunnel, Split Story, Grid View, Minimal, Stream, Isometric, Spotlight, and Magazine each frame the tour differently, from an editorial split layout to a clean, distraction-free frame to a magazine-style cover. Every layout uses the same scene and hotspot data, so choosing one is about visual fit with your brand and page rather than a feature trade-off.