How can I add a 360 Virtual Tour to my listing?

[Clement0]

Hi,

We have been hosting for two years now and have been doing ok with our pictures.  We found this website http://do360now.com that does virtual tours for real estate.  Here's a  Sample of 360 Virtual Tour for showing the properties   

The way it works is that they come and shoot pictures with a 360 camera and then they provide a link similar to what I have on the top where you can add to your listings or website.   

We can't seem to be able to add this link to our pictures or to our discription.  Does anybody know how we could add 360 Virtual Tour to our listing?

Thank you indvacned,

Clement

[Guilhem8]

I am renting a lot via airbnb and I think this would be a great feature. There is actually one thing you can do to make it possible : it's making a link in your description to an hosted 360 image of your property. Here is what I do to share my 360-degree photos :

1) Upload your image here : https://panoraven.com/share-360-photo

2) After the download, just copy the link and paste it to your description.

There you go!

[Michael1812]

I can’t believe all this time and Airbnb STILL does not allow you to post a URL of a Matterport walk through.  

[Spencer24]

Yes is this true - there is still no way to add a matterport VR experience? 

[High-Performance-Compute0]

FYI, most of my new customers that last couple years are ex-matterport users. They jumped ship for several reasons. Not all the same but most were reasons why I don't recommend matterport to anyone. Kinda cool.. very overpriced.. and very incompatible since matterport is so proprietary and they are so stuck on themselves as a company they won't listen to their customers. It's their way and you better like it. Or go someplace else we don't need you  attitude (since we charge so much... hahahahaha!). Jerks! Up to them what kind of business they run. Just wish they ran it in a much different way. Already cheaper alternatives popping up that can and will likely replace matterport for most of their clients. Just a matter of time. 

[High-Performance-Compute0]

Why use that instead of using a link from Google Photo's or YouTube? I already have enough accounts. I don't really wish to make anymore additional accounts than I need.

Other's seem more costly compared to a paid account with Google for $5/mo. Even cheaper if you pay yearly.

Sure photo's has a limit on origiginal however I can use it for storage and sharing. Two in one. YouTube has no limit.. and is free. I just don't get why more aren't using them. What do the others give you that you cannot get with Google for less $$? I'm still debating on what is best for me for actual VR Tours. So far I'm not really happy with anyone I've tried. Walkabout seems to be one of the best for the price but is very time consuming to create a Tour. 

[Joe507]

Please provide a way to include links to video tours on our listings! this is critical in this day and age. 

[Akash9]

Hi everyone,  i think AirBnB are really missing something here by not implementing virtual tours. My company work with estate and letting agents throughout the UK making these tours practical and cost effective at £20-£30.

I would love to have a discussion with hosts and AirBnB themselves to understand why tours are not comaptible.

Hotel Example: https://bit.ly/2NgkC3O

Property Example: https://bit.ly/2pJmbxD

Would love to hear your thoughts.

[RIGAAPARTMENTcom0]

Not bad. But this is classic 3D pano. Everything is very slow and takes a long time...

Now peopla want and need just quick glance and 10 sec desigion taking run 

And not only 3D pano, but pictures, floor plan, map, info about rooms or product and ect.

Smf like that https://qpano.com/en/rigaapartmentsonada

We use such marketing pease for representation links of our property and also this product is integrated into out home page.

It is a lot TEC around. Why for Airbnb it is still such an issue?! It is terible backwords. 😞 Nowadays people need to see, they are intuitive and used for be "here and now straight away", thay do not want wait or searche. All about product should be in one place in one time.

[Toby70]

I am a Matterport Service Provider and this seems crazy AirBnB still wont impliment this technology... I am here in the UK and Matterport is (almost) fully compatible with Rightmove (still missing the integration on the app - come on Matterport and Rightmove, work together on this please!).

Are there any representitives at AirBnB who can comment on this please?

Thanks

[Toby70]

Just read a reply from befor saying someone managed to get in contact and they just said 'We are not interested...'

Crazy...

[Toby70]

So I have just asked Matterport about this here is their response:

Toby,

Thanks for the inquiry! 

With regards to Airbnb, Matterport has been in talks with Airbnb to experiment with our technology. 

Airbnb conducted a pilot in Sonoma last year which featured Matterport virtual tours. Since then we continue to engage and work with Airbnb but are not able to disclose more as they continue to evaluate the use of Matterport for their hosts and guests. 

It goes without saying that if companies like Airbnb/Booking.com  were to adopt Matterport more broadly, that would be a positive outcome for our network of customer/MSP's. Our talented team members in Travel & Hospitality have been working extremely hard to help pave a way for our customers to more easily access and work with these types of companies. 

Hope this helps!!

[Toby70]

I am unfortunately going to have to retract this as it appears Matterport have been telling me porkies and trying to fob me off... it stated in thier reply that it was in testing last year. It appears it was in testing in 2016! Clearly somthing hasn't gone well or Airbnb and Matterport have got beef with each other.... Such a shame.

https://all-about-airbnb.com/post/144746582091/airbnb-sonoma-select-experience-and-virtual-tours

[Bruno795]

Create a QR code with the 360 virtual tour hyperlink and add it to your photos on Airbnb 🙂 

[Bruno795 · Accepted solution]

Create a QR code with the 360 virtual tour hyperlink and add it to your photos on Airbnb 🙂 

[Paul2001]

Interesting idea. Would this be considered a violation of Airbnb rules in any way?