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About the Virtual Tour
In the Virtual Tour you can explore all the public rooms of Wroxton Abbey, its gardens and woodlands, and Wroxton village.
There are 81 different virtual reality panoramas, in which you can pan left or right and up and down. You can zoom in to see fine details of the woodwork or ceiling plasterwork. Each of the virtual reality scenes links to another using "hot spots" which enable you to take a seamless tour of Wroxton from the edge of the village through Wroxton Abbey and its grounds.
At the start of the Virtual Wroxton Abbey you can choose from six different options To begin the virtual tour you can click either "Choose a Destination" or "Begin the Virtual Tour."
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When in a virtual reality panorama, your cursor will change to a finger when over a hot spot. Text will appear to the left of the panorama to indicate the destination of the hot spot. In the example below the cursor has entered the hotspot which links to the Library Hallway.
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In each of the panorama screens you may also navigate by using the small map in the rectangle below and to the left of the panorama. Red dots indicate the all the possible destinations in each map. Placing your cursor over one of them will indicate the name of the destination. A red "target" shows the current location, with a black pointer indicating the current angle of view..
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From the program's Index screen you can elect to Choose Your Destination. Clicking on this button will take you to a screen where you can pick from a scrolling list of all 81 virtual reality panoramas. Or you can choose one of eight maps of the Abbey and its environs and pick a destination hot spot. In the example below the map of the Great Pond area has been selected.
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Within the Abbey buildings, many of the hotspots will link to objects of art or details of the decoration. Nearly every painting and tapestry in the Abbey, for example, has its own hotspot which you can click on to see the item in more detail. In the example below the cursor indicates a hotspot over the painting of Lord North in hunt dress.
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If you click on the object's hotspot you will see the painting or other item in a screen of its own with text identifying it.
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From this screen you can choose to see the item in even greater detail by clicking on the painting to enlarge it. From the magnification screen you click once again to return.
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Also from the program's Index screen you can choose to read The Wroxton Story. Selecting this choice will take you to an on-screen "book" with a 500-year narrative of Wroxton and its inhabitants. The book's interface includes many other text, image, and video links.
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