virtualtour: Another Message from the Future of Real Estate Video - 10/08/08 05:25 PM
As a follow-up to my recent "The Future of Real Estate Video?" post, I have another amazing piece of technology prototype eye-candy that is sure to have a future in real estate videos.
It's called VideoTrace, and it's a research project out of Australia.
Given a video of the inside and (2 comments)
virtualtour: Updates: More AutoPano Pro Screencast Tutorials and a new PTGui! - 09/08/08 08:58 AM
We've been recommending that people use one of two panorama stitchers for some time now, PTGui and AutoPano Pro.
AutoPano Pro works great if you shoot with a very wide-angle or fisheye lens, but if you're shooting with a 10-shot or 12-shot rotator head, sometimes AutoPano (or for that matter, most (0 comments)
virtualtour: The future of Real Estate Video? - 08/16/08 01:37 AM
While I have been previously critical of broad use of real estate video, I saw something today that totally amazed me, and if it becomes integrated with video software, might change my mind about real estate video.
What I saw was an amazing new piece of software. It's a research project (5 comments)
virtualtour: Autopano Pro Stitching Tutorial - 05/26/08 08:46 PM
Just wanted to share this great article & review I found on Autopano Pro, which is a promising stitching tool.
Autopano Pro runs on Mac, PC, and Linux and has some pretty neat features:
Automatically detect one or more panorama scenes from a folder full of images.
Ability to stitch any (4 comments)
virtualtour: A Picture is Worth Thousands of Dollars - 05/04/08 01:13 PM
I ran across an article filled with great stats on how pictures affect the sale of a listing. Quick Summary: Listings with more pictures generate more leadsMore pictures = quicker sale (1 photo = 70 DOM, 20 photos = 32 DOM) More pictures = higher list-to-sale price (1 photo = 91.2%, 6+ (25 comments)
virtualtour: Virtual Tour Background Music: Cheezy or Cheez-a-licous? - 04/12/08 05:39 PM
Ok, this question is going out to agents, home buyers, and home sellers... When you open a virtual tour and the cheezy music starts playing, do you: Think it adds "panache" to the listing and makes you feel better about it ORImmediately reach for the mute buttonWe got a lot of requests to (15 comments)
virtualtour: Great Photography and Virtual Tour Resources - 04/02/08 10:13 AM
Just a quick blog post to share some notable real estate photography resources I've come across recently.
Blogs, tips, and tricks:
Photography for Real Estate Blog - Great blog about RE photography and tools, and an awesome Flickr pool & group to get constructive criticism on your technique
HDR Blog & (15 comments)
virtualtour: What makes a good virtual tour? - 01/31/08 04:15 PM
Over the last two years, I've worked with several virtual tour photographers in the Atlanta area. I was always amazed at how bad most virtual tour experiences were, and so in partnership with these photographers, I built a Virtual Tour Hosting Platform for real estate called TourBuzz. I wanted to share with (8 comments)
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