Custom Helix VR Tours
Finally, a 360 Virtual Tour designed for the unique needs of multifamily professionals.
What is a Helix Tour?
A Helix Tour is a custom designed 360° Virtual Tour of your community that offers nearly unlimited customization, engaging features, and a wide variety of ways to use it. Helix Tours are filmed by professional photographers using high-end equipment and designed by experts who have years of web/graphic design experience. Each Helix Tour is designed from the ground up based on your brand, selling points, or the way you plan on using the tour.
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Custom Layouts and Branding
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Install on Leasing Tablets
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Amazing Photography
Custom Layout. Better Results.
We use analytics to track performance and make recommendations based on how your prospects engagement.
The Benjamin
Market Square Tower
Camden Lincoln Station
Ascent Victory Park
The Rey
WHAT WE CALL THE “WOW” FACTOR
Helix Tours include an arsenal of bells, whistles, features, and options. We use these features to improve user engagement and create the “WOW” factor.
Customizable
100% customizable
Just like your communities’ websites, our 360 tours can be customized, branded and tailored to fully embody your communities’ message and brand. This flexibility allows us to create a unique online shopping experience that seamlessly integrates into your communities’ websites, social media, email/outreach marketing and even in-house tablets and touch kiosks.
Hotspot Navigation
Hotspot Navigation
Hotspots are elements inside your Helix Tour that, when clicked, trigger and action. Actions include loading a new scene, displaying an image or photo album, playing a video, opening a website, displaying a floor plan, playing an audio clip or even displaying a pdf. Hotspots are strategically placed to be easily spotted and designed to be informative and immersive. Hotspots can be customized and branded according to your preferences. Choose from our library of stationary or sequenced hotspots or let us create a completely unique hotspot that fits your brand.
Live Availability
Live Availability
Our website integration feature is great for displaying live availability, contact forms, or any other aspects of your website you want to include. Because your Helix Tour is tapping into existing management and website content, you never need to worry if the tour is displaying correct information.
Embedded Video
Embedded Video
Make your tour standout and leave a favorable impression on your prospects by adding video to TVs.
YouTube Videos
YouTube Videos
Display YouTube vidoes within your Helix Tour’s interface.
Floor Plan Navigation
Floor Plan Navigation
Helix Tour’s Floor Plan navigation feature displays your floor plan PDFs inside the tour with navigation hotspots over it. Floor Plan navigations provide a visual aid to the user and makes navigating the tour simple, easy and convenient.
Menu Screens
Custom Menu Screens
Our custom designed menu screens are great for maximizing user engagement. Easy navigation is key for creating the best user experience. One of the drawbacks to Google Maps 360 tours is inconsistent and frustrating navigation. Platforms such as Panoskin, which relies on Google Maps, have similar limitations and offer less customization options.
Not only are Helix Tour’s custom menu screen branded with your community’s logo, they are also designed to display all the areas in the tour. By showcasing all the areas right at the very beginning of the tour, we have found that users send more time viewing the tour. Of course, scene selection menus are optional and do not need to be included.
Voice Narration
Voice Narration
Voice narration is the perfect touch for selling points and features you will not get from images.
Google Maps
Google Maps
Display your local area through Google Maps.
Aerial 360° Views
Our aerial 360° views are more than amazing 360° views of your community, but also an interactive navigation element in your Helix Tour. Users spend 3 times longer viewing aerial 360° images than traditional 360° views from the ground.
Local Attractions
Expand your Helix Tour’s reach beyond your property with our Local Attractions feature. Local Attractions is an interactive map that showcases 360° views from your community’s city, neighborhood, or block. Each scene can be outfitted with informative media, so the prospect knows why this attraction is important to them.
3D Floor Plans
Helix Media’s 3D Renderings can be included in your Helix Tour. Our 3D Renderings are interactive and allow users to drag and drop 3D furniture into the models. The 3D floor plan and 3D furniture are all designed to scale giving an accurate scenes of space in the unit.
Proof in Engagement
Pinpointing the exact factors that convert a lead in multifamily is difficult and is usually a combination of many factors ranging from interior decor to paid ads on Google. This can make determining ROI difficult and objective.
However, with Helix Media’s built-in analytics tracking we can provide your team detailed insight to how users are engaging with your communities’ Helix Tour. In fact, we have found that Helix Tours double website stickiness and session duration, increasing website SEO and driving more organic traffic over time. On social media 360 content receives around 7x more engagement than traditional media content.
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Tour Usage Data
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Geographic Data
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Device Breakdown
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User Demographics
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Performance by City
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Web Traffic Source
WEBSITE INTEGRATION
Helix Tours can be added to all websites that can play a video and have a wide range of integration options. From simple URL link outs, to intricate systems of Deep Links that start users in multiple locations, Helix Tours can be flexible to your existing website.,
TOP MENU ITEM
Embed your Helix Tour on your community’s website. A Helix Tour will retain users longer on your site increasing your community’s rank on Google, driving more traffic organically.
FLOOR PLAN PAGE
The Southmore’s floor plan page of their website consist of “Virtual Tour” call to actions, which start the tour in that corresponding floor plan.
VIRTUAL TOUR PAGE
Market Square Tower uses Deep Links on their ‘Virtual Tours’ page of their website. The page is a clickable photo gallery that opens the tour in the exact spot in their Helix Tour.
MORE WAYS TO USE HELIX TOURS
One of the best parts about Helix Tours is the number of ways you can use them in your existing marketing avenues. Each Helix Tour is hosted on the cloud, making it incredibly easy to integrate them into nearly all online outlets. We have worked with hundreds of properties over the years and know exactly how to help you maximize usage and ROI.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Just like your website, Helix Tours can also be embedded on your Facebook Page, as well as links to Instagram Ads.
EMAIL MARKETING
We can track email user engagement/interest though the built in analytics portal.
LEASING TABLETS
Helix Tours can be added to both Apple and Android tablets for off-line viewing or off sight marketing.
TOUCH KIOSK
A Helix Tour is a great addition to your existing leasing touch kiosk, such as Engrain’s Touch Tour or Pywheel.
INTERNET LISTING SITES
Integrating Helix Tours into your existing ILS will increase their effectiveness, potentially reducing the need of even needing an ILS over time. We can setup the tour’s analytics to compare engagement from various web sources to see if one is generating more interest than the others. Contact us for a complete list of sites that support Helix Tours.
