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Imagine being able to visit a house, take a tour through the rooms, see the landscape and view, learn about the surrounding community and find the necessary buying information right from your very own computer.
Virtual online home tours now are being offered by many Realtors, allowing home buyers to do all of their shop ping on the Internet.
There are three popular forms of virtual tours. The first provides pictures of the interior and exterior of a home on a Web site. The second, and most popular type, is a 360-degree panoramic tour that features pictures of rooms from a moving camera. The tour lets a visitor zoom in on the most detailed features of a room, everything from carpet color to cabinet design. The third type of tour is a video tour that actually makes the visitor feel as though he or she is walking through the house.
"The virtual tours are doing very well. In fact, the real estate industry was made for the Web," said Tupper Briggs, owner of Tupper Briggs...