5 Ways Virtual Reality is Transforming Home Buying Experience
Fri Dec 02 2016
This guest column is authored by Ravi Bhushan, Chief Technology Officer, PropTiger.com and makaan.com
In the past few decades technology has touched every aspect of our life. Everything has changed from how we commute to how we communicate or from how we shop to how we sell. Digital world has contributed to every activity we perform. Digital wallets and online shopping platforms have transformed our buying experience completely. People have forgotten the way they use to book cabs after the advent of Ola and Uber in the intra city cab market. Gone are the days when people reached cinema theatres only to find a houseful board hung at the counters. One thing that has not changed significantly is the home buying experience, except for few online real estate companies providing online listing of available properties nothing much has changed. One reason for this is that the property experience is still static; we need to go with different brokers to visit various properties to shortlist one. We at PropTiger too want to revolutionize this process. Here are the five ways how virtual reality is transforming home buy and search experience.
1. Ease site visit
With the advent of virtual reality you will not visit each and every home. You can shortlist from various options available online to funnel down to a few really apt ones. Videos and photos are not good enough to select or reject a particular home but with virtual reality you get transported to the property itself using the immersive power of virtual reality. Virtual reality will help you walk through the living room into the kitchen and will allow you to look beyond windows or the balconies.
