1. You don’t need special equipment or software While some property owners will invest in computer-generated 3D renderings, virtual tours don’t always have to be complex or expensive to produce.

Websites using virtual tours are proven to get better engagement. American media agency Panomatics said they are viewed for five to 10 times longer than those without.

The tours would be a combination of both texts and imagery, using Street View as well as 360-degree videos to get the full, immersive experience of these virtual tours.

As the CEO of a real estate technology company focused on video listings, I've seen virtual tours that are so beautiful they make me want to buy that property.

Tour Creator allows users to create 360-degree images of environments and include annotations to describe objects or situations. Once completed, the 360-degree view and notes can be experienced ...

But, unlike Expeditions, Tour Creator has many potential applications outside of educational settings, according to Google. One of the company's early partners on the feature is Time Out New York ...

Google selected the Moinian Group as one of the first real estate developers to gain access to Tour Creator. The web-based application allows users to create virtual reality tours using footage ...

Working with ed-tech companies like Full Measure Education, universities are crowdsourcing photos and videos on social media to build virtual campus tours, supplementing information packets that ...

Google also announced Tour Creator, at Google I/O which will allow anyone to create annotated virtual tours with 360 photos that they take or screengrab from Google Street View.

A new virtual reality tour of two major facilities in Texas, Marathon Petroleum's Galveston Bay refinery or Ineos' La Porte chemical plant, allows users to get a glimpse of what operations are ...