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technology has changed how realtors take photos of the outside of your home now the inside is getting the same treatment virtually apartments.com is testing virtual reality tours of some listings and demonstrated it at a conference in San Francisco I think that that would help definitely sell whatever apartment we need to sell yeah for sure using an HTC vive headset with hand controllers potential renters can explore rooms and even look around corners VR is very different than the HD videos that we have while they are great and they're very slick and produced apartment renters really want to tour the space at their own leisure the site is also offering 55,000 listings with 3d tours that can be viewed in a Samsung gear VR headset without the headset you can still view the 360 tours online properties are scanned using a 3d camera made by meta port we get back a 3d mesh of the apartment along with photogrammetry and panoramic views of the apartment space Sotheby's in Los Angeles is currently using VR and the oculus headset to sell luxury properties one buyer in Dubai used VR to buy a property similar to this one in New Hampshire without actually seeing it in real life it's all part of a bigger trend towards virtual Realty in San Francisco Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS News