VR is becoming a huge part in real estate where you don’t even have to walk into an actual home! You can put on the headgear, and tour another home while being in your living room! Scary… but it’s what our world is coming to.
I bring it up today because the luxury home builder Toll Brothers has launched a VR app called “Kitchen 360.” You can now view your future kitchen in 360 and choose from many different configurations – swapping out appliances, changing colors, etc!
Check out the full article below!
https://readwrite.com/2017/07/
JtR: Virtual reality and the 360 tours are great gimmicks, but they aren’t necessarily a good thing for home sellers. Buyers are looking for any reason NOT to buy, and they can mis-interpret something they see on camera and decide against seeing the house in person – when it could be the right fit.
I don’t recommend the VR/360 tours for houses that aren’t perfect. But like Kayla said, it is what our world is coming to, so look for mass implementation.
Looks like a niche marketing gimmick for the immediate future.
Btw, most grandmas don’t say “cool!” when introduced to a large headset chock full of vertigo inducing technology… with joysticks.
They say things like “Oh, shoot! Now what did I just do?” and “will this thing affect my pacemaker?”