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**interactx** · 10-14-2006, 06:47 PM

Some friends think we are a little crazy to invest in VR, 360, Virtual Tour, and Virtual Reality domains. We even made a site devoted entirely to selling them. But in defense of our sanity, let me divulge the viability of such endeavors. In other words, tell you why we think it's a good idea:

First of all, a definition. This technology is basically a 360 panoramic view that the viewer can navigate within, looking right, left, and sometimes up and down - using the mouse. It is immersive, interactive, and actually pretty fun (besides being a great way to display objects and places).

Real Estate has been using it extensively for several years to show off houses from their websites. The obvious advantages of showing a home (room to room) to anybody in the world are obvious. Realtors are grabbing it up like crazy, and the availability of this feature is growing as well. An entire industry supports the equipment, software, and online display of real estate VR.

Various scenic photographers have been using it to show various tourist spots around the world. You can see Machu Picchu, Egyptian Pyramids, and just about any other place you can imagine. Very cool and of great use to Travel Agencies.

Similarly, Automotive has caught on, and various companies use 360 views to show the interior and exterior of their cars. Check out the official websites of Audi, VW, Porsche, Toyota, GM, Mazda, Honda, Suzuki and others. Not having a 360 view is becoming the exception.

Retail is getting with it too. The fact is, VR and 360 is THE BEST way to display objects and places from every angle and web users love them. Although perhaps not recognized fully, this is proving to be a booming industry.

**Poker** · 10-14-2006, 06:53 PM

I can see the value in VR, 360 etc...but not so much in domains with those themes...what's the point in having a 360 domain when you can just add 360 feature on your existing site?

**interactx** · 10-15-2006, 07:03 PM

As the 360 feature becomes more used, then the "360" becomes something of a signal that the site utilizes panoramic views of whatever.

So if I was looking for a house, for instance, the panoramas - that go from room to room and allow you to zoom in and out and feel like you are there - give an infinitely better idea of what the house is like than the thumbnails, or even the slide show type displays.

Same with the automotive. So if someone has a choice of going to a site with or without the virtual tour (assuming they know what it is), then I would guess that they will go to the site that has the better view - the 360 site.

This doesn't even count the "panographers" that do the photography and stitch it together and have websites promoting their work.

Anyway (getting a little long-winded, I know), this doesn't even count the significance of 360 in the language. As in all around or complete or spherical or a full rotation. Make a Google search with that keyword and you will see some sites that use 360 in some interesting ways.

**interactx** · 10-16-2006, 08:11 PM

LOL. You ever see The Pricess Bride? Like Wallace Shawn's Vizzini: "I'm just getting started!"

I didn't even get into the VR uses in simulation. VR is used in flight training and aerospace, or other high tech machinery. In medical training. It is used in weather forecaster's displays on TV. Used by architects. Used by the military. In remote controlled robotics. Used in video games with simulation. Used by industry for design...and more. All those websites, all those domains.

**biggedon** · 10-16-2006, 08:28 PM

Hi

This is not news.

This is an advertising campaign.

**interactx** · 10-19-2006, 03:33 AM

All I can say is you should do your own research about virtual reality. It is a lot bigger than what I have written. I could give you a hundred websites that are about VR in one way or another (unaffilliated in any way). It is used by the military, in science, in entertainment, in exploration (oceanic to space), in medical, in simulation training for flight and driving, in architecture, in retail, for tourism, and a lot more. If that's not news, I don't know what is.

Our brokerage is for end-users, not for investors. So, enough about that ad campaign nonsense. We don't own VR...some very serious research and development is under way, and much VR fully in use.

But I will say that investment is all about looking towards the future. VR is not science fiction, it is science fact.

**JuniperPark** · 10-19-2006, 03:11 PM

I'm with Biggedon on this... "news" is something NEW.

Flight simulators (real ones) came out in the early 1980's.
Flight simulators (PC games) were popular in the mid 1990's.
Real Estate did this 360 thing more than 5 years ago, about the same time as products did the 360 thing.
Weather reports with a rotating camera -- news about 7 years ago.

In other news, Bill Clinton is no longer the US president, and Enron may be inflating stock prices...

**biggedon** · 10-19-2006, 03:20 PM

Thread closed!

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