If you haven’t heard of Augmented Reality, what rock have you been hiding under. Assuming that you have been on a desert island, or maybe you just don’t keep up with the latest in technology, let me fill you in. Augmented Reality is taking reality, and superimposing something on top of it. For Example, I am looking thru a set of binoculars, and when I point it at some flowers, software in the binoculars determine what the flowers are and a description of the flowers, how to take care of them, their scientific makeup all pop on the screen for me to read. My Reality has been augmented (or the dictionary use – having been made of greater value). The view of that flower became more interesting to me because now I learned something about it, something I did not know just a minute ago.
Now lets take that thought process and apply it to Real Estate. Lets say I have my phone (an Iphone, or any other phone with a camera) and put it up to a home that is for sale. Without doing anything else, the Augmented Reality Browser could show me the number of bed, baths, sqfoot, price, listing agent, his/her phone, any open houses coming up, or even links to virtual tours or videos. Think how amazing that is. All I did was put my phone up to the house and I learned everything I needed to know about it, and at that point, I can decide whether or not I would like to actually go in and take it for a test spin.
The opportunities are endless. I could create a brief intro of the house and give more information about my website so they can see more information online. Augmented Reality Browser are still early on in development, but the number of developers attacking this new technology make it a worth while technology to follow.
For More Information, please visit this site here..http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/introduction.html .its fairly technical, but then again, this is the Technology for the New Age Realtor
