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The partnership between roOomy and Matterport offers virtual staging opportunities to residential real estate customers. SAN JOSE, Calif. – RoOomy, a 3D modeling platform, has partnered with Matterport, a spatial data company to provide virtual staging capabilities to residential real estate customers.“Virtual staging is one of the key services our customers consistently request,” said Jay Remley, Matterport chief revenue officer. “Our partnership with RoOomy provides real estate professionals, home buyers or renters, and retailers with completely new ways to promote, choose, and furnish the homes they want to live in.”Potential buyers and renters can now view staged properties and visualize the potential for spaces 100% virtually from any device, according to Remley. Consumers can also search for, decide on and buy furnishings for their property within the Matterport digital twin, which is the collection of digital data that represents a physical object.The companies said many agents and real estate managers have already leveraged virtual staging as an easy alternative to physical staging. Retailers are also realizing significant benefits using 3D digital twins in place of 2D photography. A survey conducted by RoOomy revealed that people moving into new homes spend five times more on furnishings.However, 65% of respondents said that buying new furniture at once, shopping for pieces to design their space and finding furnishings to match their existing furniture were top pain points. As a result, major home furnishing brands are responding by offering consumers the opportunity to make purchases directly within the virtual staging platform.“Virtual staging is truly driving the connection between retail and real estate,” said Pieter Aarts, co-founder of RoOomy. “Our partnership with Matterport delivers a dynamic experience for viewing properties and home interiors.”

Any of the digital staging themselves.4. roOomy – $49Best for: A real estate agent who has luxury listings they want virtual tours for.The roOomy software suite uses Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to create a virtual staging solution. It’s $49 to make a virtual, staged image in roOomy, but roOomy is special-it can also create a virtual tour for around $400 to $1,700.They provide their Design Studio App, through which realtors and homebuyers can continue to design their rooms. Realtors will be able to place virtual furniture as desired and will be able to assist home buyers and renters in creating their own staged photos.roOomy is a very robust technology that is best for luxury listings.3. Cedar Architect – $59Best for: A real estate agent who wants a DIY application for virtually staging homes.Unlike some of the other solutions on this list, Cedar Architect is a subscription-based service. For $59 a month, you can create unlimited projects. That includes both HD renderings and virtual visits.You can try out Cedar Architect with a 15-day free trial, which includes three free projects and three free HD renderings. You can also get special “recharge” packs if you need even more.A special feature of Cedar Architect is the ability to design and re-design exteriors. For instance, you could show a prospective buyer how the outside would look if it had rose gardens, a deck, or a pool.2. Spotless Agency – $79 to 199Best for: A real estate agent who wants an all-around

Virtual staging company Rooomy announced last week a collaboration with 3-D property modeling provider Matterport, who just last month partnered with one of China’s largest real estate agencies. Key Takeaways Two 3-D software companies, Rooomy and Matterport, will be working together to offer fully-furnished virtual property tours. Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our real estate technology expert? Email Craig Rowe.Virtual staging company Rooomy announced last week a collaboration with 3-D property modeling provider Matterport, who just last month partnered with one of China’s largest real estate agencies.In what seems like a very sensible partnership, Rooomy will offer its virtual staging and 3-D interior design capabilities to Matterport customers, allowing them to curate and experience fully-furnished and decorated homes on their browsers and in sales offices.“We are the market leaders in virtual staging. This new collaboration with Matterport eliminates the many hurdles and extra steps that often come with physical staging and allows buyers and renters to see and feel an optimized rendition of the listing from anywhere,” said Rooomy CEO and co-founder Pieter Aarts, in a release.Rooomy’s virtual staging platform allows interior designers, stagers and homeowners to select and place renderings of furniture and home decorating accessories.An example of a virtual staging by RooomyRooms can be designed to help sell an empty home or new construction condos or apartments, or assist design professionals in creating new projects.Rooomy’s relationships with popular furniture brands will also be augmented by the agreement.Customers can decorate rooms using a deep catalog of products from companies like Havertys, Wayfair and even Amazon. Renters and homeowners can purchase items directly within Rooomy.It has not been disclosed if Matterport will receive compensation for furniture purchased from Rooomy’s catalog when viewed in one of its 3-D tours. In an email, Rooomy’s PR company told Inman that ” … it is Rooomy’s corporate policy to not comment on furniture sales structure with any partners.”Matterport is the industry’s most well-known 3-D real estate modeler, offering solutions for several real estate verticals beyond residential sales, including construction and hospitality.Tours created with the software and specialized cameras can be viewed in an array of media formats but are best experienced with virtual reality (VR) headsets, where augmented realty (AR) features can enrich a property’s appeal.The December 20 press release stated that multifamily property managers and agents will especially benefit from the partnership; maintaining model units cuts into

After a prospective homebuyer wanders into a home’s living room, she grimaces: the space groans with off-color wallpaper, shag carpeting and a well-worn couch. But her agent is smug as a bug. She hands her client a smartphone and instructs her to peer through its camera. Key Takeaways Real estate agents can use Rooomy's smartphone app to show buyers different interior-design possibilities during showings. The app uses Google's Tango technology to overlay furnishings onto a smartphone's camera view. After a prospective homebuyer wanders into a home’s living room, she grimaces: The space groans with off-color wallpaper, shag carpeting and a well-worn couch.But her agent is smug as a bug. She hands her client a smartphone and instructs the buyer to peer through its camera.Reality transformed: The buyer sees newly-painted walls, a leather couch, reading lamp, ottoman and big-screen TV as she surveys the space.This is how real estate agents can use a new mobile app from virtual-staging provider Rooomy to show a home’s full potential.A promotional Rooomy graphic shows a room’s real appearance in the upper right-hand corner and an augmented-reality version on the left.The app, which Rooomy plans to launch in the Google Play Store in February, will only be compatible with smartphones that use Tango, an augmented-reality (AR) technology from Google that can map and “augment” the real world through a mobile device’s camera.The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is the only smartphone that uses Tango at the moment, but a second, the Asus Zenfone AR, is slated to debut in the first quarter of 2017.Rooomy’s app works by overlaying furnishings into a user’s camera view of a room, so they see an “augmented” version of the space.“We all know that one of the biggest hurdles that Realtors are dealing with is that 90 percent of consumers don’t have ability to visualize the space,” Rooomy CEO Pieter Aarts said. “[Rooomy’s app] is really showing the full potential for the property, especially during open houses and viewings.”Prospective buyers can choose from a wide range of existing design schemes to project onto a space, or they can use Rooomy’s app or website to design their own, perhaps before they visit a listing.Rooomy will pilot the app with San Francisco Bay Area brokerage Climb Real Estate. Climb had already been using Rooomy’s flagship product, which converts photographs into online 3-D models and virtually stages them.Tango will likely spawn a range of apps

The context of the room they are standing in. Curate by Sotheby's International Realty has been developed by roOomy, the leading virtual staging technology platform specializing in 3D modeling and rendering, AR, and virtual reality (VR) content creation and application development. The integration with Magic Leap is the latest launch for the Sotheby's International Realty brand in its continued work with roOomy. Virtual stagings within the app can be ordered with roOomy.To learn more about the app, click here. The Sotheby's International Realty network currently has more than 23,000 affiliated independent sales associates located in nearly 1,000 offices in 71 countries and territories worldwide. Sotheby's International Realty listings are marketed on the sothebysrealty.com global website. In addition to the referral opportunities and widened exposure generated from this source, each brokerage firm and its clients benefit from an association with the Sotheby's auction house and worldwide Sotheby's International Realty marketing programs. About Sotheby's International RealtySotheby's International Realty was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for discerning clients of Sotheby's auction house. Today, the company's global footprint spans nearly 1,000 offices located in 71 countries and territories worldwide, including 43 company-owned brokerage offices in key metropolitan and resort markets. In February 2004, Realogy entered into a long-term strategic alliance with Sotheby's, the operator of the auction house. The agreement provided for the licensing of the Sotheby's International Realty name and the development of a franchise system. The franchise system is comprised of an affiliate network, where each office is independently owned and operated. Sotheby's International Realty supports its affiliates and agents with a host of operational, marketing, recruiting, educational and business development resources. Affiliates and agents also benefit from an association with the venerable Sotheby's auction house, established in 1744. For more information, visit www.sothebysrealty.com. The affiliate network is operated

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