These 3D viewers are already available, and could cause agents to skip the fancy movie-like home tours and just choose reality…..or some combo?
Homebuyers in less than ten years’ time will visit properties remotely through virtual reality devices – and check out potential neighbourhoods using their own personal drones, a new report has revealed.
Trends analysts The Future Laboratory said the idea of actually physically visiting properties while house-hunting will be less and less common by the 2020s.
Instead, there will be multi-brand 3D virtual reality cafes where buyers will be able to explore new off-plan homes for sale as if they were really inside them.
And by 2025, ‘haptic’ technology will even allow a home buyer to feel and even smell the inside of a property without leaving the showroom or the comfort of their own home, according to the report commissioned by leading national estate agency easyProperty.
Meanwhile, most Britons will own a personal drone with which home buyers will be able to see what the neighbours are like, how busy nearby roads are and other information not otherwise easily available.
Rob Ellice, CEO of easyProperty, said: “Many of the future technologies predicted in the report already exist in other sectors, albeit at nascent stage.”
“A small number of buyers are taking virtual tours of luxury homes but it will not be long until these tours will move into the mainstream property market, partly driven by the internalisation of the industry.
“Seamlessly integrating our digital and physical worlds, virtual reality tours will count as a first viewing, as people are usually going to physically do the second viewing, but this helps to better qualify them and speed up the sales process.”
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http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/buying-and-selling-homes-in-2025-1-4051522
Funny you posted this today. I’m in Europe at a trade show and tried out that exact headset and talked to one of the developers about it. First, it really does feel like you’re inside whatever environment they put you in. So much so that until you’re used to it your brain tends to flip out and you can initially lose balance.
The developer I spoke with said they use it for virtual meetings. He also said architects use it to walk through their designs to confirm that everything flows correctly.
The graphics sucked. Think games from the late 90s early 00s but this is easy to fix.
I can definitely see this becoming the next big thing in gaming. I can also see how it would work well with house tours. 1 small issue they’d need to address is that you can’t naturally walk up and down stairs.
What would be really cool is combining real time 3d laser modeling with drones.
Looks like someone is already doing it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz5z_xaB9i8
Nice/quick way to create a complete 3d map of your house. Once you have the 3d model you can use a 3d viewer to “walk through” the interior.
I’m surprised construction guys aren’t using this type of tech more. You could send the drone to a location, run it, then have a perfect representation + measurements of the interior/exterior without even stepping foot on site. You could also do xrays (without anyone in the house), combine that with the 3d model and have a complete view of all interior wall framing/electrical/plumbing.
I don’t know about other folks, but for me to ever own my own personal drone, prices would need to fall below $500, at least!
Only place I see a demand for this would be very high end homes which is a small slice of the market.
The majority of realtors out here still seem to struggle to assemble a handful of quality images of the property let alone film a hd video walk though of home. What I normally see for video nowadays still is a set of images they rotate through for the video and you have some awesome elevator music playing in the background.
Yet lets jump light speed ahead to virtual reality goggles…I see this tanking as fast as 3d tv’s.