Saturday 23 December 2017

Importance Of Virtual Tour In Real Estate Industry

By Alex D White


Virtual tour is a video prepared by a technology, where different images are combined along with text and audio to give the viewer a better viewing experience of the property, place or region. Austin TX Virtual Tours for the virtual tour services they offer, are becoming increasingly popular, as they make use of 360 degree photographic virtual tour photography, which are available for commercial business and become a medium to show case the products and service they have to offer.

An important advantage of using the virtual tour is that the user gets to have a 360 all-round view of the place, similar to what it may experience by being actually present there. Virtual tour becomes more expensive with the process, especially in case of larger businesses, involving people looking for the site or place. In the past few years, virtual tour has already been established as the most profitable marketing strategy, which is considered by almost every business company.

With time, virtual tour software has become an integral part of several business organisations and the use of this too has increased immensely. Moreover, the process of using virtual tours is found to be very helpful to a lot of businesses as it allows them to extend their business to their globally. As an individual starts looking for a property, it always wants to visit the property personally to ensure it is the one it desires.

In order to prepare photography tour, the process of stitching is used, which is divided into three steps. The first method is using a 360 cylindrical image which is focussed around the horizon line by combining a number of still photographs, which are taken in portrait position to make a rectangular picture. Second method is taking an all-round 360 picture, including the ceiling view, often the use of fish lens are made to take four pictures with just 4 shots. Lastly, the photographs are stitched together; this involves stitching of panoramic photographs forming a cube to complete the complete virtual tour.

You must look to choose the virtual tour services offered by a lot of companies, as they provide you with a great marketing strategy and they guarantee to work with the focus of selling the property. Austin virtual tours of course provide you with a better deal in comparison to other virtual tour service providers.

For an instance a person is planning for a vacation, with the help of virtual tour option it will be able to select the type of hotel rooms, best nearby restaurants, major attractions nearby and so on, without much effort. Virtual tours have really reduced the amount of disappointment and stress people had to go through for travelling and have brought a positive effect in customer satisfaction.

Virtual tours are used very effectively showing photographs of the property, floor plans and also provide arrows to indicate the location of where the photos were taken. Moreover, it also offers sophisticated options, providing you with full service virtual tours, which involves several photos stitched together. Of course this service is a bit costly, as the cost of interactive floor plans, including the cost of photographer, use of high quality equipment and use of specialized software also affects the cost price.

Also the user can pan at any direction it wants, zoom in and out to get a closer look of the location or property. Remember virtual tour allows you to be at the comfort of your house or office and visit the location or property; you just need to have a computer and an internet connection.




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