video: Another Message from the Future of Real Estate Video
- 10/08/08 10:25 AM
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 outside of a property, one could construct a complete interactive 3D model of the property and make the virtual tour of the future an actual 3D environment that you can walk through like a video game. This also has implications for staging. You will be able to completely stage a (2 comments)
video: The future of Real Estate Video?
- 08/15/08 06:37 PM
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 at this point, but I assure you it'll be the coolest thing you see today. Check out the demo below: Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo. (or click here if the embedded video doesn't work) This technology is likely a year or more (5 comments)
video: What makes a good virtual tour?
- 01/31/08 08:15 AM
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 you some of my observations and thoughts about what makes a virtual tour good or bad, according to my research and thinking. I hope that you find it educational, and I am looking forward to feedback on the ideas as well. Picture QualityThe pictures themselves are of course the most important (8 comments)