Virtual tours are a virtual way to view a space. These typically use 360 panorama views, videos, and still images. They are commonly used for marketing an architectural development, or a location. The term is sometimes synonymous with walkthrough, but usually walkthroughs are more linear and virtual tours are more user-driven.
Rendered virtual tours are virtual tours whether the media (images and video) are computer rendered, instead of being photographed or filmed in reality. This has several advantages: virtual tours can be created of spaces that do not yet exist, the videos and images can be perfectly and seamlessly synchronized, and it can be more economical than taking real footage – particularly in cases which would require complicated lighting setups.
In many cases a rendered 360 panorama can be produced for a similar cost as 2-3 renders of the same space, because while the panorama requires more rendering, the modeling work is the same.
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