Viar360

Viar360 is an authoring and publishing platform for interactive virtual reality built from 360 videos and photos, and it describes itself as the most intuitive tool of its kind. Its focus is narrower and more useful than general VR authoring: creating interactive training scenarios rather than passive content.

The training orientation is what distinguishes it. Users create immersive training scenarios with modern learning elements and score trainees on their performance, so the platform produces assessable learning rather than a 360 video someone watches. For a training team, the ability to measure whether someone made the right decision inside a scenario is the entire justification for using VR over a video.

Building from 360 videos and photos rather than modelled 3D environments is a deliberate practical choice. Filming a real workplace with a 360 camera is dramatically cheaper and faster than modelling it, and for training scenarios set in places that already exist, photographic fidelity is also more useful than a rendered approximation.

Ease of use is emphasised consistently, and a published academic account supports it. A professor of digital and interaction design reports that Viar360 gives students the ability to use 360 video content very intuitively and start prototyping concepts at a very early stage in the creative process, noting it is easy to use while still having the features they were looking for, with support always available. That combination of a low barrier to entry and depth for experienced users is the platform's central claim. Pricing is published on the Viar360 site.