My friend, the 360° camera
Signs of me losing my mind + coverage of the weird viral real estate listing beat
I’ve been doing some apartment hunting ahead of my move to Dallas to start ✨ my new job. ✨ I handle change about as well as a Ford Pinto handles being rear-ended (explosively), so looking at apartment listings has been equal parts exciting and I hate it.
It’s nice to have a friend around who you can count on in these situations. Unfortunately, there’s a pandemic, so I can’t have a human friend around, and I can’t tour apartments in another state in person. Most apartment companies anticipate and accommodate that, which is how I met my new friend, the 360° camera responsible for the virtual tour on almost every real estate listing.
Here she is.
Even when you can’t see her, she’s always there. It’s comforting.
She’s a little shy. She’s a workman, not a star, but sometimes her putting her foot in the spotlight is unavoidable.
This is her brother, the stabilized video camera who also does virtual tours.
This picture isn’t from an apartment I was hoping to rent, but from an insane Kentucky house listing that went viral last week.
Even in Kentucky, states away from where I am now or where I’m moving, I can still count on a cameo by my friend, the 360° camera.
“The pictures do not tell the full story,” says the listing, and boy is that accurate. I would dare you to find the blue tub, but apparently it was removed from the virtual tour because of its proximity to a wall of Girls Gone Wild DVDs.
Here’s my other favorite part of the tour:
That cat will sell you health potions for 5 gold pieces each.