Thu 21 Aug 2008
My house on Photosynth
Posted by Marlow Harris under Real Estate
Laura Foy from www.on10.net and crew came to our house a few months ago to tape a Photosynth How-To video. By clicking on our garden gazing ball in the link, about half-way through the video, you get a quick tour of our living room. You can tell it’s our house because of the large life-size Elvis bust on the grand piano, the dead baby heads, the Shriner hats, the bad Louis XIV furniture, the garden gnomes by the fireplace and the Angel of Meat. You can even see a painting of my boys above the fireplace.
Photosynth is part photo gallery, part movie. One photo is shown clearly at a time; adjacent images appear faded, and others less closely related to the photo in focus are look like ghosts. Viewers can zoom in and out, and pan left and right, through the scene created by overlapping many different views of the same place or object.
Galen thinks it will change real estate. It may allow technologically motivated agents to bring better virtual tours to homebuyers. I’m going to try it out with one of my listings soon. The video crew did a great job but they were professionals. It will be interesting to see how it looks when a real schlub takes photos and try to use the software. I’m excited so stay tuned and I’ll post the results.
JoDavid writes about this and Microsoft’s other big news on Unusual Life.
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August 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm[...] Rain City Real Estate Guide for alerting me to this service. For an additional viewpoint, read Marlow Harris’ post on 360Digest. Note: because this is their “beta” version, Photosynth currently [...]
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:12 am
Marlow - that is so cool! I can’t think of many homes with so many fun details…
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
Very cool Marlow. We’ll try it too.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
Wow - that’s awesome they wanted to use your house.
I actually tried photosynth. Maybe I was overstating it a little. Maybe photosynth 2.0 or 3.0 will change real estate.
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
What an awesome product! Haven’t had the chance to try Photosynth yet, but can already see the many applications it will have in real estate. Got to try it out on my next listing and hopefully it’s as easy as it looks.
BTW Marlow what a unique home you have - the doll scares me a bit though
September 6th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I think it is an interesting tool, but not quite ready for prime time yet.
Here’s a house in Leavenworth that I just uploaded http://tinyurl.com/5h5dxm
September 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
It’s kind of still a toy, isn’t it? I may try it for my next listing. But a view has to download the program first to view it, right? We’ll see if anyone will do it.