Chances are you ’ve been fooled by a too - good - to - be - on-key living accommodations ad , from that “ spacious , light - filled ” home that was actually benighted and cramped to the “ two - chamber ” flat that was just a single social unit with a large living elbow room . To part with prospective homeowners and renter these eccentric of experiences , Zillow , the on-line veridical demesne database company , is working on a barren app that will soon permit customers to take 3D planetary house term of enlistment , accord to Engadget .
Real estate agent with iPhones will apply the Zillow Group Home Capture App to upload 360 - degree picture of rooms to Zillow Group , sans special equipment and hosting fees . The photos will then be fused together into a panoramic walk - through , and the virtual tour will be added to a Zillow listing .
About 44 pct of homebuyers and 47 percentage of renter search for homes from a distance , according to data from the 2017 Zillow Group Housing Report . 3D tours “ will facilitate buyers and renters more easily visualize themselves know in the home , no matter how far away they take place to be , ” said Jeremy Wacksman , Zillow Group ’s primary marketing military officer , in a newsworthiness release . “ Photos have always been vital to the home search process and now 3D duty tour can give purchaser and renters a naturalistic understanding of what it would be like to experience in the home base . "
The Zillow Group Home Capture App is n’t quite ready for release , as it ’s currently being tested by a focus group in Scottsdale , Arizona . But if you subsist in Phoenix , you may see it hitting the iTunes depot as early as 2018 , with a nationwide rollout expected by the end of next year . In the meanwhile , you could get an online prevue of Zillow ’s 3D tourshere .
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