360 degree virtual tours

Go back in time to famous stage and studio locations long gone to music history, with full 360 degree photo-realistic panoramic views in stunning detail. 

Be transported to the living room at Mendips and see the Quarrymen rehearsal -- before Aunt Mimi kicked them out. Jump around the timeline to places like The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the Ed Sullivan Theater, to the Apple rooftop.

Venture out to other familiar places like Woolton Church Hall on 6 July 1957 to the day John and Paul first met. 

Visit studio #2 and see every famous sessions from 1962 to 1970.

Stand in the middle of studio #3 for the Revolver sessions. Walk around during the Sgt Peppers sessions , studio #1 for the Our World broadcast of All You Need Is Love , and the orchestra session McCartney conducted for A Day In The Life.

See recording sessions and historic places long gone, from angles never before thought possible.

A list of current available locations posted below. 

full INTERACTIVITY

INTEGRATING PHOTOS , VIDEO and EXTERNAL LINKS

Works with all the latest models of VR goggles with a wide range of features.

New this March 2019 is the Oculus Quest which allows you to walk around in 3D space WIRELESS!

HTC Vive or Oculus Rift VR glasses used in a defined scale-room virtual reality station, with complete interactivity with audio and video cues. 

VR tours work with all common types of Virtual Reality Goggles such as the Google Carboard Box, the Samsung Gear VR and Playstation VR goggles, and on-site virtual tours are done with the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. 

Features and level of interactivity vary depending on the device and delivery method.

Photos, video and audio assets will be seamlessly integrated to the virtual rooms. 

VR rooms will have multiple camera angles and interactive hot spots, the viewer can jump around the timeline from one scene to another in any order.

Objects such as guitars and amps will be embedded with popup up info such as historical facts and external links.

"Easter Eggs" are hidden around each virtual scene and will be regularly updated with fresh content.

360 degree locations include: 

Woolton Church Hall - 1957
Woolton Fete outside - Quarrymen stage -1957
20 Forthlin Rd. living room recreation
Mendips living room, Quarreymen livingroom rehearsal - July 6 1957
Decca Studio audition - Jan 1 1962
The Cavern Club 1957 - 1964
The Ed Sullivan theater and sets 1964 - 1965
The Washington Coliseum - 1964
Deauville Hotel rehearsal - February 16,1964
Donmar Warehouse rehearsal - 1964
The living room in Help! - 1965
Lennon's Kenwood sun room - 1964 - 1968
El Delfin Verde - 1966
Lennon's Kenwood attic studio - 1967
SFF film location at Knole Park - Jan 1967
West Malling - I Am The Walrus set - 1967
Sgt Peppers Cover photo shoot - 1967
Kinfauns - The Esher demos 1968

Abbey Rd Studio #2 various sessions 1962 - 1970
Abbey Rd Studio #1 Our World Broadcast - June 25 ,1967
Abbey Rd Studio #3 - Revolver sessions 1966

Abbey Road control rooms #1, #2 and #3
Abbey Road echo chamber #2

Apple Studio sessions - 1969
The Apple rooftop concert - 1969
The "Imagine"room at Tittenhurst - 1972

Live venues - essentially 180 degree stage views.

Friedrich-Ebert-Halle stage set up ( Bert Kaempfert sessions)
The Indra Hamburg, Germany - 1960
Aintree Institute Liverpool - 1961
Kaiserkeller
The Top Ten Club - 1961
Star Club Hamburg Germany - 1962
Manchester 1963
Royal Command Performance London Palladium - 1964
Carnegie Hall NY City - 1964
Blackpool Night Out - 1964
Hollywood Bowl - 1964
Palais Des Sports, Paris, June 20, 1965
Budokan - 1966
Shea Stadium - 1965

Other 360 degree virtual tours works in progress:

Eldridge Johnson workshop - Camden New Jersey.
Victor Trinity Studios - Camden New Jersey
The Rolling Stones Olympic Studio "Sympathy For The Devil" sessions.
The Rolling Stones Mobile truck.
The Rolling Stones Villa Nellcote Exile On Main St. basement sessions
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon sessions in Studio #3
Sun Records; Elvis and Johnny Cash sessions
Led Zeppelin sessions at Headley Grange
Lynyrd Skynyrd Hell House - Green Cove Springs, Florida

WE DO DIGITAL DELIVERY!

Your VR tours can be screencast to an unlimited number of HD screens in your venue.

But why not use your HD screens for stunning slide shows!!

The space the size of a single large format movie poster will yield hundreds of photo-real renderings and animations play on screen.

Your HD screens can display stunning high resolution photo-real images of stage and studio.

From the early days at the Cavern to the Apple rooftop, the patron can also point their smart phone at a small QR code and order any image on screen as a photographic print from you directly.

17+ YEARS OF WORK AND RESEARCH

In order to accurately re-create all the guitars, amps, drums, keyboards, and all manner of Beatles instruments, in March of 2005 I began research into every piece to make highly detailed 3D models. 

The same process applied for all the outboard recording gear used at Abbey Road and other studios of the day. The REDD.51 mixing console, the BTR and Studer-C-37 tape machines, and many other pieces of recording gear seen in the control rooms, tape rooms and echo chambers.

On the floor of the studios are the microphones and stands, boom microphones, power supplies, the custom speakers at made at EMI's Hayes factory, chairs, miscellaneous furniture, down to the alarm clock seen on the Steinway used for A Day In The Life.

If it's in a Beatles session photo, it's a 3D model with associated textures: i.e. the correct wood and hardware on the instruments, and the correct fabric and textiles present in every 3D virtual scene. 

As for the studios, live venues and other places from Woolton Hall to the Apple rooftop, it was a several-year process to compile room dimensions , lighting, wall, floor, and fabric textiles, and other room features and content.

In some cases I was able to secure architectural plans: Abbey Road, 20 Forthlin Rd, Tittenhurst, Kenwood, but most spaces were made from photographic references with standard building codes of the day and/or first hand accounts. 

For the Miami rehearsal room, I managed to get the measurements of the pool room only weeks before it was torn down.

In the course of my research , I contacted and spoke to over 300 musicians, recording professionals,  authors, collectors, past and present employees, and fans , even a few that saw the Beatles at The Cavern Club.

Highlights include several wonderful Beatles experts and Liverpool locals, gracious members of the Quarrymen, a few former Abbey Rd employees who were there for Beatles sessions, the curator of Mendips, The National Trust, a retired CBS stage technician who had hand drawings and photos of two Ed Sullivan sets.

A lifelong resident of Liverpool who provided photos of his uncle's wedding in Woolton Church Hall in 1955. Photos and first hand accounts of the stage of the Woolton Fete where the famous photo of Lennon and the Quarrymen were taken. 

Even the son of the carpenter who built Lennon's sun room at Kenwood, now a 3D virtual tour complete with accurate furniture and wall art. 

OVER 14,000 3d ASSETS

3D models , textures and room environments:

Over 12,000 separate 3D assets - and counting. 3D models with thousands more of associated textures and image maps.

Researched down to the last detail for every guitar, amplifier, drum set, keyboards and all manner of Beatles gear they used on stage and in studio from 1956 to 1970. 

Also researched and accurately re-created in high detail is the outboard recording equipment such as speakers, microphones, stands, power supplies, amps, rack units along with many miscellaneous studio pieces.

Complete and highly detailed 360 degree room environments capable of recreating every Beatles recording session 1958 to 1970, along with several other famous live venues stage and studio.