Zillow 3D Home

This app makes it easy to do those 360 shots that really help listings. I used my I phone camera and did it free hand and it worked great. Don’t try to get crazy with perfection - I tried using a tripod and ran into issues so after an hr I gave up and just did it - don’t worry, jump in and get it done!

I use the Zillow 360 app with the Theta S camera for real estate tours and it does a fair to good job depending on the paint colors in the home. If the home has dark colors the results will be fair and if light or white colors it will be good. If the kitchen cabinets look a slight orange ( which many do ) the results can be a garish orange color which you can’t change in the app. This brings me to my main negative point, there is absolutely no way to make needed adjustments in the app such as white balance which makes a huge difference in the final results. That and a battery that’s a little small. If you shoot mostly newer homes with brighter colors you will like this app with this camera.

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This app was hard to deal with from the very beginning. It’s almost like they didn’t want to beta test before launching. Now those bugs are out, but here is why my rating is low... 1) I had to buy a used ipad because they don’t support Samsung even though Samsung is the most popular phone brand at 20% of the market and apple only at 14. 2) the user can’t edit paths when the tour is complete. Other apps allow me to edit the paths myself. Since Zillow doesn’t know where some rooms lead, you run into dead ends A LOT. 3) They aren’t improving these things, yet they also don’t allow you to embed 360 tours from other brands so you are stuck using a subpar app. 4) I have been using them since the start and had my “Zillow certification” status for 3 or 4 years. even though I am the same owner of a different company, I am forced to reapply for the cert again AND now instead of just uploading videos, they changed their rules to require 360 uploads. Why require something when people sometimes prefer not to use your app for it? The only reason I use this app is because about half of my agents want these tours on Zillow as well

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Bought a new iPod touch 7th gen two days ago for use with Zillow and other equipment that has iOS requirements. When to do a couple of tours this morning and the app would not load. Uninstalled the reinstalled several times. Restarted several times to no avail. Had to have my wife bring me her iPad that was working with the ap. Double checked the requirements for the latest version and I was using iOS 12.4 and the Zillow app requirements say it only needs 12.2. In an effort I went ahead and updated my iOS to 13.5 which did finally fix my issue but left me high and dry in front a client. You should never put your photographers in that situation. You get only 1 star.

Using the app is pretty intuitive but there are a number of quirks that still need refining, like not being able to reposition the image orientation in post-production, having to set a timer if you walk too far away from a camera, and not always having the app recognize your location. The biggest one is not having control over which 360 images Zillow adds to the listing previews. Otherwise, feels like it’s getting better and is worth using!