One 360° photograph — one position the camera stands in, and one point in the building a visitor can stand in and look around. A room usually needs one; a long or L-shaped room needs two or three so there are no blind corners. At Vronos it is the unit the capture price is built on, and the smallest tour we build is four stations.

Do I pay for navigation arrows?

No. Unlimited navigation hotspots are included in every capture price — the arrows are the tour, not an extra on top of it. The only line that touches them is optional analytics, which is priced per distinct connection at €0.50 and wires each connection to your own reporting property.

What is the difference between a hotspot and a connection?

A hotspot is one overlay placed in one panorama. A connection is one distinct route between two panoramas. If a room carries two arrows in different directions that both lead to the same corridor, that is two hotspots and one connection. Across seventeen delivered Vronos tours, 1,441 navigation hotspots collapse to 696 distinct connections — 51.7 per cent of the arrows are second ways to the same place.

How many connections will my building have?

Across the seventeen tours Vronos has published, distinct connections run at about two per station: 696 across 324 stations, with individual tours between 1.50 and 2.43 per station. A four-station apartment came to six connections; a seventy-two-station apart-hotel came to 155. Your own figure is counted from the finished tour and shown to you, so it never appears for the first time on an invoice.

Where do these numbers come from?

They were counted out of the delivered files of seventeen tours Vronos built and published, by a script that reads the tour itself rather than by hand. They are first-party figures about our own work. Every tour behind them is live and public, so any of them can be checked by opening the tour.

Arrows, connections and popups: three numbers, all true

Ahmed Pemaj Last verified 1 September 2026 8 min read

A navigation arrow is one clickable overlay inside one panorama. A connection is one distinct route between two panoramas. Two arrows in the same panorama pointing at the same destination are two arrows and one connection. Across the seventeen tours we have published that is 1,441 arrows and 696 connections, and the connection is the unit anything gets metered on. Every figure on this page was counted out of our own delivered tour files.

Three different numbers describe the same seventeen tours on this site, and they do not agree with each other. 1,614 is every overlay placed in every panorama. 1,441 of those are navigation arrows. 696 is the number of distinct places those arrows lead. All three are true, and each is the right answer to a different question. This page says which is which, so that any figure you read elsewhere on the site can be checked against the thing it counts.

The three numbers, and a fourth

Every overlay in the seventeen published tours, by what it does
What it is	Count	What it counts
Total overlays	1,614	Every element placed on top of a panorama, of any kind
Navigation arrows	1,441	Overlays whose click action moves you to another panorama
Information popups	146	Overlays that open text, a photograph or a panel over the panorama without moving you
Other overlays	27	Overlays that open a link in a window, play audio, or carry no click action at all
Distinct connections	696	Separate routes between two panoramas, after arrows leading to the same destination from the same panorama are counted once
Stations	324	The panoramas themselves — one position the camera stood in

Every overlay in the seventeen published tours, by what it does

1,441 arrows plus 146 popups plus 27 others is 1,614. The 696 is not a fifth category: it is the same 1,441 arrows, deduplicated.

What each word means

Station: One 360° photograph — one position the camera stood in, and one point in the building you can stand in and look around. A room usually takes one. A long or L-shaped room takes two or three so that no corner is hidden. It is the unit the capture price is built on, and it is the only unit that is: see the rate card.
Overlay: Anything placed on top of the panorama image. An arrow, a popup, a photograph that opens full size, a link, a sound. If you can see it or click it and it is not the photograph itself, it is an overlay.
Navigation arrow: An overlay whose job is to move you. Click it and the tour loads another panorama. These are unlimited and included in every capture price — the arrows are what makes a set of photographs into a tour.
Connection: A route from one panorama to another. If a room carries two arrows in different directions that both land in the same corridor, that room has two arrows and one connection to the corridor.
Information popup: An overlay that opens something to read or look at without moving you: a label on a dish, a description of a laboratory, a close-up photograph that fills the screen over the panorama.

Why the arrow count and the connection count differ

A panorama is a sphere, and an arrow can be placed anywhere in it. In a long room the door to the corridor is visible from more than one direction, so a good build often carries two arrows to the same destination — one where you are looking as you arrive, one where you look when you turn round. Both are useful. Both are the same connection. Leaving the second one out would save nothing and would make the tour harder to walk.

Across the seventeen tours, 745 of the 1,441 arrows are duplicates in exactly that sense — 51.7 per cent of them. The remaining 696 are distinct connections. That ratio is not a target anyone was building to; it is what happens when the way out of a room is made visible from wherever a visitor happens to be facing. It also means any figure quoted as raw arrows is roughly double the figure quoted as connections, which is precisely why both have to be named.

Two per station, from a four-station flat to a seventy-two-station building

696 connections across 324 stations is 2.15 per station. The interesting part is how little that figure moves. The least connected tour in the archive runs 1.50 connections per station and the most connected 2.43, across buildings that differ by a factor of eighteen in size. A hotel is not more densely wired than a one-bedroom apartment; it simply has more rooms. The whole dataset is here.

The seventeen published tours, counted from the delivered files
Tour	Stations	Overlays	Arrows	Connections	Per station
Fenix Apart-Hotel	72	437	429	155	2.15
Hotel Moskva	64	218	211	126	1.97
Canadian Institute of Technology	48	271	186	107	2.23
Hotel Nertili	40	231	229	97	2.42
Social Camp Jale	29	127	124	62	2.14
Hostel Kapsul	14	56	56	34	2.43
Delibros, Komuna e Parisit	7	40	25	14	2.00
Restorant Menca	7	50	23	17	2.43
Turist Shop, Lungomare	6	13	13	12	2.00
Emigres No. 31	6	22	20	10	1.67
Emigres No. 15	5	22	16	8	1.60
Emigres No. 29	5	29	24	12	2.40
Emigres No. 36	5	27	24	12	2.40
Delibros, Rruga e Kavajës	4	13	13	8	2.00
Emigres No. 35	4	21	16	8	2.00
Emigres No. 14	4	15	12	6	1.50
Emigres No. 38	4	22	20	8	2.00
All seventeen	324	1,614	1,441	696	2.15

The seventeen published tours, counted from the delivered files

Per station is distinct connections divided by stations. Emigres is one development in Vlorë captured as seven separate tours, one per apartment, which is why it appears seven times.

Which number belongs in which sentence

How much was built into a tour: Total overlays. 1,614 is the honest answer to how much was placed by hand, because a popup carrying three sentences about a laboratory is work in the same way an arrow is.
How a tour moves: Navigation arrows. 1,441 is the number of clickable ways to walk, which is what a visitor actually experiences.
What analytics comes to: Distinct connections. 696 is the metered unit, and it is a little under half the arrow count. Anyone quoting analytics from a raw overlay figure is quoting you roughly double.
How two tours compare: Connections per station. Overlays per station mixes units and produces nonsense: Restorant Menca shows 50 overlays across 7 stations, but 27 of those 50 are popups about food. That ratio measures the writing, not the walking.

How these were counted

Every figure here came out of the delivered tour files themselves, read by a script rather than recalled. Panoramas are counted as stations. Overlays are counted and then grouped by what their click action does, which is how the arrow, popup and other columns separate. Connections are found by taking each arrow’s destination panorama and discarding repeats within the same source panorama. Run it again on the same files and it produces the same numbers, which is the only property that matters.

These are our own tours and our own count. Nothing on this page is an industry average, a projection or a figure from somebody else’s marketing, and we do not present it as one.
Orphaned arrows — an arrow that leads nowhere — came to zero across all seventeen tours.
A placement is not a piece of content. Four video placements in one tour point at three flat clips playing on televisions inside the building: four placements, three files, and no 360° video.
Where a tour’s own labels are in Albanian, only the names are translated when we publish them. The counts are unaffected.

Every tour in the table is public and ungated — open one from the published work and count the arrows in a room yourself. If you want the same count made of a building you own, send us the address and you get a station count and a price before anything is booked.

Questions people ask

What is a station?: One 360° photograph — one position the camera stands in, and one point in the building a visitor can stand in and look around. A room usually needs one; a long or L-shaped room needs two or three so there are no blind corners. At Vronos it is the unit the capture price is built on, and the smallest tour we build is four stations.
Do I pay for navigation arrows?: No. Unlimited navigation hotspots are included in every capture price — the arrows are the tour, not an extra on top of it. The only line that touches them is optional analytics, which is priced per distinct connection at €0.50 and wires each connection to your own reporting property.
What is the difference between a hotspot and a connection?: A hotspot is one overlay placed in one panorama. A connection is one distinct route between two panoramas. If a room carries two arrows in different directions that both lead to the same corridor, that is two hotspots and one connection. Across seventeen delivered Vronos tours, 1,441 navigation hotspots collapse to 696 distinct connections — 51.7 per cent of the arrows are second ways to the same place.
How many connections will my building have?: Across the seventeen tours Vronos has published, distinct connections run at about two per station: 696 across 324 stations, with individual tours between 1.50 and 2.43 per station. A four-station apartment came to six connections; a seventy-two-station apart-hotel came to 155. Your own figure is counted from the finished tour and shown to you, so it never appears for the first time on an invoice.
Where do these numbers come from?: They were counted out of the delivered files of seventeen tours Vronos built and published, by a script that reads the tour itself rather than by hand. They are first-party figures about our own work. Every tour behind them is live and public, so any of them can be checked by opening the tour.