Virtual tours do more than just show a customer pictures of a prospective real estate property, it lets the customer "fly" through it.
"There are lots of providersand barriersbut who will gain critical mass?A few years ago, some people in real estate had the idea of taking pictures of homes for sale and putting them on the Internet. Others took more pictures of the homes interiors. Then, a few folks took a bunch of pictures of a room and stitched them together into one 360-degree image... In just a few years, virtual tours of millions of square feet of real estate have become part of the landscape of cyberspace."(The full content of this article may only be available to ULI members.)
Thanks to Urban Land Magazine
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