TourWrist is a free and open platform that empowers consumers and businesses to discover, shoot and share 360-degree panoramic images via computers, smartphones and tablets. With a collection of over 30,000 panoramic images, TourWrist helps consumers make educated, location-oriented decisions by previewing immersive virtual tours of travel destinations, homes, businesses, schools and other points of interest. The privately held San Francisco-based company launched commercially in the first quarter of 2011.
Technology and Accessibility
Proprietary, patent-pending technology enables “TourWrists” to view, shoot, publish and share panoramas. The TourWrist platform consists of panoramic photography tools, back-end infrastructure and tour viewers. Businesses and consumers can upload panoramas to the platform’s back-end through the TourWrist app and third-party applications integrating the Publish to TourWrist API. The images are then processed, stored and delivered to websites and apps spanning mobile devices, tablets and computers in about ten minutes.
The free app is available in the Apple iTunes App Store, with shooting capability on Apple iPhone 4 and Apple iPhone 4S. The app, which has been downloaded more than 600,000 times, converts phones and tablets into a movable window, allowing “TourWrists” to “teleport” to distant environments. TourWrist is the number one virtual tour viewing app in the iTunes Store. TourWrist also provides an HTML5 mobile-optimized web app for Android and Windows 7 devices.
In July 2011, TourWrist released a free Publish to TourWrist API, which enables third-party developers and companies to integrate in panoramic apps, software and hardware.
TourWrist is aggregating one of the world’s largest collections of geo-located virtual tours by acquiring content from:
TourWrist also owns and operates the world’s largest panoramic photography forum Panoguide.com.