I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Google has released a new set of creation tools on Google Earth that allows anyone to create their own virtual tours and stories that they can share with anyone. Google Earth has been around for a ...

Google is expanding its Street View mapping technology to get users deep inside local businesses and it is asking photographers to help. The trusted photographers program, announced in January, so far ...

Google is now letting users create their own Street View-like virtual tours with a new feature that has been added to the company’s Views website. Now, when users post 360-degree panaromas -- ...

Prospective students considering Brigham Young University can get a taste of the Provo, UT campus without stepping foot out their front door. A new virtual tour, created by a group of students, aims ...

Virtual Reality technology created by Paradigm Marketing and Creative for EdR apartment tours Memphis-based EdR has started to use Oculus Rift technology to allow students to tour apartments — ...

Last August, R.J. Pittman hopped on stage at a Las Vegas conference to promote his company. A seasoned tech executive with stints at Apple, Google and eBay, Pittman was less than a year into his role ...

Real estate technology (PropTech) startup OpenFrame announced on Wednesday that it acquired the asset of the now-defunct Giroptic, a pioneer of the 360-degree camera industry. “We believe that through ...

The open house is dead. Long live the open house. By Stefanos Chen Crowding a stranger’s apartment on a lazy Sunday — the sport of so many New Yorkers looking to buy, rent or gawk — may never be the ...

LOS ANGELES — A picture might equal 1,000 words, but it just isn’t good enough for many home sellers anymore. Real-estate agents and individual home sellers are increasingly embracing their inner ...