2010 has started with a BOOM here at Virtual Africa.

We’re literally flooded with requests to create virtual tours of guest houses, hotels and restaurants and we’ve even been commissioned to create a bunch of Hyper Definition Images (including Johannesburg and Pretoria).

After five years of risking everything and working like mad men, it seems like the world has suddenly put a stamp of approval on our dreams – and it feels GREAT!

To everyone who posted, shared or emailed our Biggest Picture of Cape Town post to friends and family, a big thank you from all of us here at Virtual Africa!

For those interested in the power of social media and anyone who has read “Tipping Point” here are some stats which will explain why we’re so grateful for your help

1. Before we posted our Hyper Definition Image of Cape Town on this site, we received about 300 unique visitors per day.
2. We posted it on our Twitter feed (@Daily_360) and I also mentioned it when I spoke at the African E-Tourism Summit on the 2nd December – but that was the ONLY ‘marketing’ we did.
3. Next thing that happened: it went VIRAL!
4. Since the 2nd of December the image has had 154 000 unique views from 176 countries
5. with people spending an average of 3 minutes looking at the picture and quite a few spending more than an hour!
6. we’ve had 300 of the most amazing complimentary comments – which are always welcome and
7. we’ve been featured in Rapport and Cape Times as well as being interviewed on RSG (radio)

So it is clear that this helps us a great deal – but how does it help you?

Well, the extra business and interests justifies the time spent to create these images (because they are MONSTERS to work with) and that is exactly what we’ve been doing the past month or so.

We are therefore glad, proud and generally stoked to announce:

Virtual Africa, in association with our good friends at Go2Africa, will be launching THREE
Hyper Definition images on the 8th of February.

We have created images of Franschhoek, another one of Cape Town and one of the beautiful Camps Bay.

But that’s not all, we’ve gone a few steps further…..

On the 8th, our Hyper Definition Images will become interactive!

We’ve hidden away hotspots on these images which, if you can find them, will allow you to access virtual tours of venues, restaurants and general places of interest.

The best part though is that you will be able to win some AMAZING prizes by exploring the images and finding the hidden logo’s.

I’m not going to give away all the details now, but let’s just say, if you want to see the inside of the One&Only Resort in Cape Town, a virtual tour is not necessarily your only option……..:)

Okay, that’s enough teasing for now.

Here’s a preview of one of the three Hyper Definition Images we’re going to use in the competition.

We’ve disabled the zoom function for now, but you can get an idea of the detail you’ll be able to explore by clicking on the Virtual Africa icon (near the beach).

All that is left to do, is to subscribe to this site (put your email in the box to the right) or follow us @Daily_360 for updates on the exact time of launch and some tips on where to find the ‘treasures’.

Happy exploring.

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