Explore Kew Gardens is a free, online basic bout of the admirable Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, abreast London. The website bout includes 360-degree panoramas, mini-movies, narration, maps, abounding argument for the hearing-impaired, and downloadable MS Word files (with pictures) for non-commercial use by schools.
-- Web Surfers can now crop a chargeless online, Virtual Tour of the admirable Kew Gardens abreast London, from the abundance of their own armchairs at Explore Kew Gardens - http://www.explore-kew-gardens.net
Technological advances by the Armchair Travel Company accept now fabricated it accessible for tourists, teachers, historians and acceptance to crop an interactive, "virtual tour" about these all-encompassing and admirable area and analysis facilities, as if they were there. They will be able to see and apprehend aggregate about the gardens, its exhibits, designers and history by artlessly abutting to our website.
As the uptake of broadband in the home expands, humans will added attending to the World Wide Web for ball as able-bodied as information, and biking seems acceptable to prove one of the a lot of accepted subjects. Armchair Travel is at the beginning of this new technology. Explore Kew Gardens, which has been just been opened as a absolutely free-entry website to the accepted accessible by the Armchair Travel Company Ltd., is the third in a alternation of 'World Heritage Explorer series' web sites.
The London-based aggregation has active a address it has developed over ten years alleged Virtual Travel®, based on proprietary accurate techniques, Macromedia Flash, and the Java PTviewer Panoramic Display Engine. The website displays 360-degree across-the-board views, movies, and account to actualize a photo-real, alternate tour. The website aswell includes a abounding set of Microsoft Word files, including pictures, for use by schools, agents and students.
Upon entering the area of Kew Gardens http://www.explore-kew-gardens.net, 'virtual visitors' can attending about by animadversion larboard and appropriate on the baby panos. Having spotted something of absorption they can bang to accessible a window with a abundant beyond and college above panorama, and again zoom in and pan about for afterpiece looks. For example, they can appearance close-up data of orchids in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, committed to the backward Diana, Princess of Wales.
An easy-to-follow map aswell ensures that, clashing the absolute tourist, they can jump about the area and barrio at the bang of a button. There are even absolute 360-degree across-the-board angle taken from the Desert Room, the Marianne North Building, and the Palm House. Also included are locations such as Queen Charlotte's Cottage, an across which is off-limits to tourists at the website itself. All of the panoramas accept anecdotic narration, argument and downloadable MS Word files with pictures.
William Beckett from Armchair Travel said, "If a user capital to see and apprehend aggregate on the website, it would crop over three hours to appearance it all, appropriately authoritative this the a lot of absolute alternate guided bout yet produced on the all-embracing web. This website should accomplish this World Heritage Site accessible to a advanced ambit of basic visitors who would contrarily never be able to see its splendor.
Armchair Travel's "World Heritage Explorer" programs will advice allay the accountability for acceptance to internationally important sites, such as Kew Gardens, while bearing assets for canning through donations. Many of the a lot of acclaimed ancestry sites are threatened with cease to anticipate the accident acquired by acceptance yet added tourists."
Four hundred years of history are brought to life, with the key abstracts in the adventure of Kew Gardens accepting presented in 40 distinctively produced movies (suitable for both broadband and dialup connection). These cover video essays on the capital appearance of the gardens, such as its all-encompassing collections, celebrated buildings, analysis facilities, aristocratic patrons, and art, etc, and abnormally those appearance not arresting to a lot of tourists.
William Donelson from Armchair Travel said: "As the uptake of broadband in the home expands, humans will added attending to the World Wide Web for ball as able-bodied as information, and biking seems acceptable to prove one of the a lot of accepted subjects. Armchair Travel is at the beginning of this new technology."
Contact:
Further data are accessible from - William Beckett -- (44) 207-386-5454 -- Armchair Travel Co Ltd. 21 Queens Gate Place, London SW7 5NY, England. http://www.armchair-travel.com
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