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Dave Kondracki is helping create a new kind of home shopping network.
The Elizabeth City photographer is allowing prospective buyers to look for their dream homes from the comfort of their living rooms.
Kondracki operates Real Tour Vision Dealership, a service that creates Internet-based home tours.
Though he’s had the photo bug since the 1950s, it wasn’t until recently that Kondracki turned his avocation into a vocation. He started out by taking photographs for insurance companies, and then a real estate agent suggested that his talents might be better used in the home-selling business. He investigated various options before choosing a company known as Real Tour Vision based on its “clarity and options,” he says.
After a customer signs up for his services, Kondracki takes hundreds of photos, both inside and outside the seller’s home. He then melds the images together to create what is, in effect, a 360-degree view of the residence.
Viewers can even control the experience. By clicking on blue “hot spots” that appear throughout the tours, users are taken through different rooms.
“It gives you a virtual tour of how the house is laid out,” Kondracki says. “It’s as if you were actually walking through the home.”
Story by Dan Markham and Warren Denney
