I stumbled across an interesting alternative for creating Virtual Tours today. Mapwing.com enables anyone to build, share, and explore virtual tours online and for free. Mapwing turns digital photos into interactive tours that include a placed or drawn map, images, and comments. Finished virtual tours can be embedded into blogs or other Web sites.
This could be a very useful tool for commercial brokers (and residential Realtors). It only took me about 30 minutes to photograph, scan, and create a tour online of my Maxsell Real Estate office building.
I created this tour using the free version, but they do offer enhanced features for a yearly fee of $39 or even more features for $15/tour (still a great savings for Realtors using other services). I’d be curious of feedback from other agents and the real estate buying public.
Resources: Mapwing Press Release, Mapwing Website
