Hello all,
@Lizzie
I seen the google 360 views and I'm not impressed, hard to implement and costly! We looked into it for our properties at one point. Plus is giving more business to an already big company.
What we like about do360now.com is that it is similar to airbnb where they connect 360 fotographers with people that need the service. Giving the business to the self employed fotographer. It's easy to implement and its not too expensive that we can afford it for not only our higher priced properties, but also our lower ones and rentals.
Airbnb can do something similar, partnering up with do360now or a similar company, and offer their hosts to be contacted or contact a regular fotographer and a 360 fotographer or the same fotographer can do both regular and 360 pictures.
For example, the young lady that comes to take our pictures and do our 360 tours is an idependet fotographer that uses do360now to get business.
Plus, I like the Virtual Tours from do360now.com better. We use their tours and are really easy to implement. We just add a link to some of our listing's pictures. When the viewer clicks on the picture it launches the VR Tour...
After Jen, our 360 fotographer, takes the pictures of our listings, she then emails me a link that I just add to our regular pictures in our website. We did not need to change much on our website to incorporate the 360 Tours. That's why I think it will be very easy to do!
Btw, I own an Oculus Dk2 and its amazing to view properties wearing them! We have helped several people in wheel chairs view dozens of properties using the Oculus and then picking just a couple to actually go view physically. We have sold each one!
Here's an example of a property we just put for rent in Florida --> http://firmre.biz/properties/newly-renovated-ground-condo-unit-in-desire-east-lake-community/
We just need airbnb to enable links to our discription area or when we click on our property to open the VR Tour.
I believe in less than two years we will see Oculus and other Head Mounted Displays (HUD) become main stream! There are a lot of companies pushing this technology.
BTW, Facebook bought Oculus for $2billion dollars! This is the way we will view a lot of things soon!
There are a lot of cameras and 360 VR Services coming out as well...
Create a great day!
Clement