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Zillow acquires real estate marketing company VRX Media to boost listing services

GeekWire

VRX offers real estate-focused content such as aerial drone photography, virtual staging, 3D tours, and high-definition images. It was founded in 2015 by former real estate agents Seth Green and Nathan Strom. The new bundle includes: Dotloop , software that helps real estate brokerages manage documents digitally.

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How Zillow Group is thinking about AI and the future of real estate

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Zillow CTO David Beitel was one of the first executive leaders at the real estate giant. In 2006 the online real estate giant debuted the “ Zestimate ,” an algorithm that uses statistical and machine learning models to estimate the value of homes. It’s also changing the way Zillow developers write code.

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Zillow shares up 16% as real estate giant reveals ‘housing super app’ strategy amid iBuying closure

GeekWire

But now it has a new plan to make more money off real estate transactions. ” Zillow surprised the real estate world with its decision to end Zillow Offers, which launched in 2018 and was billed as a way for consumers to avoid the hassle, time commitment and uncertainty of a traditional sale.

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Redfin co-founder sues company for alleged patent infringement over 3D home tour technology

GeekWire

One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that the violations handicapped his current startup. Eraker launched Surefield as a real estate technology startup in 2012 after leaving Redfin.

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Home-building software startup Digs lands $7M

GeekWire

The 2-year-old company is an AI-powered collaboration platform for builders and homeowners that organizes documents, provides communication tools, and generates 3D digital versions of homes, among other features. The recent real estate slowdown has not impacted Digs in a big way, according to Fink.

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The metaverse: Not dead yet

Computerworld Vertical IT

The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations.

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Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

CIO Business Intelligence

Nvidia made its name designing chips that can dramatically accelerate certain kinds of calculations — those involved in rendering 3D models, for instance — but has recently moved into software development. This will begin with 400 offerings in four domains: real estate, utilities, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, Koerte said.