Campus virtual tour: Exploring the potentials for Malaysian Universities / Mazliana Hasnan … [et al.]

Many international universities have now shifted from using text and still
images to display information to providing virtual tour of the campus in their
websites. The tour enables users to explore the selected locations with the
images navigable at their own pace. This paper explores the potentials of
employing such approach for Malaysian universities. A prototype of a local
campus virtual tour was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the
approach. The results of user evaluation reveal that the experience of touring
the campus virtually has great potentials as the lour is claimed as cost saving.
convenient and can have long and lasting impact on the users.