By Crista Quintos
Software titan Microsoft debuted on Thursday, September 27, its partnership with mobile app HomeSpace360 to revolutionize the way people view real estate.
The tie-up will allow brokers to use advanced technologies such as 3D photography and video VR (virtual reality) to reach a bigger portion of their target market.
The HomeSpace360 mobile app offers its users with high-quality photos and video VR experiences using their mobile devices.
Simultaneously, the HomeSpace360 Cloud offers property marketers a solution to capture, distribute, and give clients an overview of properties in 2D and 3D on their devices including VR.
With the application only requiring brokers to use a smartphone, it is able to cut the cost of renting/buying a 3D camera to provide clients with virtual tours.
In the real estate market, VR is being implemented more specifically for clients and consumers. Realtors and brokers have been moving towards this new technology to provide their clients with a good depiction of different such spaces, offering them a 3D virtual tour right on their very own devices.
?Technology is the great equalizer. And we want to enable all realtors by democratizing immersive tours through user-friendly technology. With HomeSpace360, we use smartphone technology to bring high quality 3D virtual tours within the reach of every marketer,? said HomeSpace360 CEO Simon Gemayel.
?With our technology, marketers can easily transport their clients to 10, 20, even 30 properties in an hour,? added Gemayel.
Built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, HomeSpace360 is changing how people view and purchase properties.
?It?s exciting to see partners like HomeSpace360 create democratizing solutions to today?s problems with Microsoft technology. Microsoft Partners such as HomeSpace360 are at the center of our digital transformation as they continue to enable our customers to achieve more,? said Eileen Ong, director of commercial partners and small medium corporate business units at Microsoft Philippines.
HomeSpace360 offers their subscription at three different price points:
? The Pro Model — P1,500/month for up to 15 visual tours/month
? The Advanced Model — P2,500/month for up to 30 visual tours/month
? The Premium Model: P5,000/month for 50 virtual tours/month, and a choice of custom pricing for enterprise clients, with more specific needs/virtual tours
Each subscription comes with four tools that will be sent over by HomeSpace360, including a mobile VR viewer, a battery-free smartphone rotator for a stable 360 degree spin, a lightweight tripod, and an HD fish-eye lens for 360-degree capture.
