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A virtual tour is a series of “panoramic”
images linked to each other that allows you to view a room or
scene as if you are there. It also has interactive map,
hotspots, links, thumbnails, etc.
Some of the virtual home tour facts state that as of August
2006, just over half of American adult internet users (51%)
have taken virtual home tours of another location online, up
from 45% in a previous Pew Internet & American Life Project
survey in November 2004. (2006 Pew Internet & American Life
Study). 24% of buyers in 2006 say they found the home that
they purchased using a virtual home tour on the internet
compared to 2% in 1997. (National Association of Realtors
Survey 2006), 88% of buyers who use the internet say that
virtual tours are useful in their search (National Association
of Realtors Survey 2006). Home sales are expected to top 7.7
million in 2007 (National Association of Realtors Survey). 95%
of the virtual tours on our servers are virtual home tours.
360photography.com offers you the best Virtual Home Tours on
every listing. We also offer a great quick and easy
opportunity for the customer to interact, explore, and find
the home they have been looking for, at a time that is
convenient for them.
A virtual home tour can be created in few minutes. The virtual
tour provider takes a series of still images with the camera
mounted on its side on a Custom Rotator. This gives the
virtual home tours a wide-angle view. With our virtual tour
software and process, virtual home tours and virtual business
tours utilize 360-degree panoramic images, partial panoramas,
and even still images.
This rotator is specially designed to take a maximum of twelve
photos at a pre-specified overlap. These twelve overlapping
photos are then seamlessly and automatically stitched into a
360-degree panorama using our Photo Stitching Software. 360
virtual home tours can be quickly created, uploaded,
customized online using our tour management system.
Once your tour is online and published to our web based server
you are able to use the Download Tour. The download tour is an
offline version of your virtual home tour that offers a number
of real estate marketing possibilities beyond mere virtual
home tour hosting tours quickly and easily.
One of the most important points to remember here regarding
virtual home tours is that they should not be used solely to
market a listing. They should be used to market you. One of
the most important things that you should include in a listing
package, is a CD of one or more of your full-featured virtual
home tours. Show prospective buyers, how you are going to
market their property before saying a word. Handing a
prospective seller a package that includes brochures,
marketing materials, DVDs and CDs says much more to a seller
than any words you could ever speak. Handing them a
full-featured interactive virtual home tour puts you ahead of
competition that has yet to figure out that their homemade -
video tour is nothing more than a slide show. |
