Sunday, November 24, 2013

Mark Gipson Austin High Tech Entrepreneur Is Now Competing Against Google Worldwide



Mark Gipson
Mark Gipson

Mark Gipson, Founder & CEO of Austin based, Virtual Tour App is now competing with Google for the future of virtual reality.
Virtual Tour App is a leading interactive virtual tour production and mobile app development company that has helped grow some of the world’s most successful brands. Our strategy? We’re in the business of growing our clients’ business. We’re a full-service virtual tour production company but our work goes beyond just making world-class interactive virtual tours. We work with our clients to discover and define how they can use our virtual tour app technology to grow and translate that vision into reality. Our people make a difference and we help our non-profit and business clients showcase their success in a new way.
 Virtual Tour App is a full service 360X360 HD/HDR interactive virtual tour production service with worldwide production capability. VTA specializes in media and content creation, and embedding multimedia into the tours we produce. Virtual Tour App offers clients the ability to embed maps, website links, menus, HD video and HDR photographs, pop-up text, voice narration, music, e-commerce and other forms of multimedia into their virtual tours. We have the capability of editing and adding nodes to our virtual tours over time, and can create private password-protected tours for corporate training and other large-scale industry initiatives. VTA offers enhanced ADA compliance features like voice-narration for blind and low vision individuals, and embedded American Sign Language (ASL) for deaf and low hearing individuals. Our tours also can be themed in multiple languages for businesses that cater to international clients.
Virtual Tour App was featured at the 2014 SXSWi Interactive Festival and on the cover of the Austin Business Journal for competing against tech giant Google in the virtual tour market. We create “treasure hunt” style interactive virtual tours, hosted on high speed cloud servers that give you the ability to edit and update your tour over time. We can enhance tours with multimedia like: embedded video, photos, text information, interactive maps, custom menus, commerce, reservations, social media, music, and customized features.