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Zillow starts using AI for virtual home tours

GeekWire

Zillow’s Listing Showcase combines media and immersive virtual viewing to present a home’s features and layout. Seamless toggle between photos, the interactive floor plan and a virtual tour. Media grouped by room for easy navigation. Highlighted floor plan overlay to connect the photos to their location in the home.

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

GeekWire

based marketing service VRX Media , a move that broadens its suite of listing services it sells to agents and brokers. VRX offers real estate-focused content such as aerial drone photography, virtual staging, 3D tours, and high-definition images. Rich Media Technology , an AI-generated floor plans and 3D home tours.

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Zillow Surfing 2.0: Real estate giant uses AI to beef up virtual touring tool

GeekWire

Zillow Group on Wednesday rolled out a new feature for its virtual tour experience that uses machine learning to pull together various media content with an interactive floor plan. “It allows the shopper to have a deeper, more authentic sense of home,” said Josh Weisberg, VP of Zillow’s Rich Media Experience team. .

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Genies will let consumers create their own 3D avatars with Giphy and Gucci

Venture Beast

Genies is expanding its focus from celebrities to everyday consumers with its 3D avatars for social apps from the likes of Giphy and Gucci. Read More.

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Don’t ignore virtual reality as you plan the future workplace

CIO Business Intelligence

Two years ago, the consulting giant started shipping many of its recruits virtual reality headsets instead. At the same time, it created a virtual world or “metaverse” that enables employees to socialize, form teams, conduct training, and collaborate. “We More business applications are on the way. Next step: the office.

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Facebook changes corporate name to Meta as it focuses on the metaverse

TechSpot

In announcing the name change, the company went all-in on selling the idea of the metaverse, a virtual 3D space that combines virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Zuckerberg during the livestream announcement hailed it as the next step in online communication after writing text on websites, and social media.

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Mythical Games buys Polystream for real-time 3D streaming for the metaverse

Venture Beast

Mythical, the maker of the Blankos Block Party game, has acquired Polystream for real-time 3D streaming for the metaverse. Read More.

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