Watch this video about the new ways to interact with your computers. No more mouse, only hand movements and voice. The video is OK for the first couple minutes but then they have a demonstration with a map. The user is expanding and rotating the map with his hands on the desktop. Then even better the user lays 2 cellphones on a table, and images start popping out of each phone and are displayed on the table. Then the user drags the images between the phones, and shares the data…very cool, unless you have a phone full of porn and you put it on a table and images start flying all over. Then, not so good

How will this be involved in real estate searches? 

Don't just think about home searches from your personal computer, think about how this will change the brokerages and real estate offices. 

I go to KW in San Francisco a lot, it is right in the middle of town with large glass windows all around it. The windows are filled with all the property flyers for that office. not very technical but it does get people to stop and look. Some of the more technically advanced offices in the cities are using flat panel displays to show videos of homes. I've seen some higher end clothing stores use the front glass windows to display videos directly on the windows.

Now, think about how this will change the window shoppers, and even the way the real estate offices are set up. You walk into the real estate office and get your own room or cubicle, and you can move around the city with hand manipulated maps, videos, virtual tours. in 5-8 years all the major cities should have the 3d map views, so you will be able to get some really interesting information. When you have the info you need, the Realtor in the office hands you a GPS device with driving direction that will guide you to the homes you were looking at in the office.

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