Featured by Forbes magazine

Our work for Kiawah Island appeared in an April 2016 article by Forbes magazine entitled "Virtual Showrooms: The Future of Homebuying is Now." Focusing on advancements in virtual reality as a sales and marketing tool for luxury residential properties and Kiawah Island Real Estate's use of our MirageVR virtual tours, reporter Scott Kramer contrasted his experience purchasing a home in the year 2000 with a home shopper of today.

"From the viewpoint of standing inside each room and seeing the architectural design to taking in the calming views of the ocean and other scenery surrounding any given property, the VR technology allows future homeowners to genuinely picture themselves in the home and get a grasp for room sizes — replete with the actual vistas available from that specific lot," he wrote after experiencing our virtual tours on an Oculus VR headset.

Virtual tours are fast becoming an expected way to experience what it's like to view a luxury home by prospective buyers considering the purchase of a second or third home, especially before they're built. "The use of virtual reality will make the process even more seamless," Kiawah Island Real Estate president Chris Drury said in the article. "It allows potential homeowners to visualize life on Kiawah, from the covered porch where family and friends will gather to relax, to where they will eat meals together."

An added benefit for our client? With an estimated circulation of just under one million and the additional reach of social media sharing, the Forbes piece and the virtual tours it featured helped Kiawah Island Real Estate reach many more potential buyers of their luxury properties.

View the virtual tours featured in the Forbes piece here and here.

Village | Virtual Tours & Renderings for High-End Real Estate

Village Features is a premier boutique firm specializing in creating lifelike architectural renderings, virtual tours, and virtual staging of planned luxury real estate properties, high-end buildings, and public landscapes.

Our cutting-edge virtual tools help our luxury real estate clients sell built-for-sale homes more quickly and for more money. For commercial and public organizations, our work enables their stakeholders to better visualize—and buy into—a planned building or landscape project.

We are based in the US but work globally.

How our virtual tours and renderings help you

For our luxury real estate clients, our cutting-edge virtual tools help their teams sell built-for-sale homes more quickly and for more money.

More sales
More quickly
More money

How? It's difficult for a prospective homebuyer to truly visualize what it feels like to walk inside a luxury home and explore it if all they have is a floor plan and a two-dimensional, black & white architect's elevation.

Few people like to make a major purchase sight unseen.

With our virtual tours, homebuyers can don a headset (or view the virtual tour online) and literally feel they're standing in the finished home. They can turn 360 degrees to see all around them, and they can go into different rooms.

With our lifelike renderings in full color and fine detail, they'll feel like they're looking at the finished house, down to the sun-dappled leaves of the tree on the actual homesite.

And with our virtual staging, especially useful for homes under construction where all there is in reality is plywood or drywall, they'll feel like they're gazing at a finished room with fine finishes and furnishings, down to the grain of a sofa's fabric.

The better they can see that luxury home, the more fully they can experience it, the more likely they'll be to want to buy it... and the more likely they'll feel it's worth its price.

And for commercial and public organizations, our work enables their stakeholders to better visualize—and buy into—a planned building or landscape project.

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Forbes virtual reality story

Village | Virtual Tours & Renderings for High-End Real Estate

How our virtual tours and renderings help you