| iseemedia Press Release |
iseemedia Inc. and RealBiz360.com Announce Launch of the World's First High-Definition Virtual Tours for Realtors at NARSelf-Serve Portal Generates Leads for Agents through Easy Creator and Publishing of High Resolution Virtual ToursSAN FRANCISCO,CA. - NAR Convention (National Association of Realtors®) October 27, 2005 - For REALTORS® congregating for their Meetings and Trade Expo in San Francisco CA, iseemedia inc. (TSX-V: IEE), a technology leader in streaming rich media content for Internet and mobile devices, and self-serve real estate marketing portal, RealBiz360.com, today announced the North American release of High-Definition Virtual Tours for the real estate market. High-Definition Virtual Tours delivers an unparalleled experience to the real estate buyer, enabling users to zoom in and see the fine details captured by today's new generation of digital cameras. Examples of the new capability are posted at: http://builder.realbiz360.com/redirect/press1.htm According to REALTOR.com®, the official site of the National Association of REALTORS®, homebuyers clearly recognize the value of virtual tours, opting to view properties via a virtual tour more than 120,000 times each day in the U.S. Although some Internet home listings include a virtual tour, most tours yield low quality, low-resolution images that blur when homebuyers zoom in to view details. The main benefit of a virtual tour is in the finer details, so being able to zoom in on demand to see specific characteristics of a property in astonishingly clear detail is a 'must have' in today's market. We are delighted to partner with iseemedia to create this state-of-the-art virtual tour portal," said Charles Lyman, Chairman & CEO, RealBiz360. "The ability to offer High-Definition Virtual Tours to the real estate agent puts the RealBiz360.com offering ahead of all other virtual tour services." "We're very excited to announce the High-Definition Virtual Tours capability with our business partner RealBiz360 to the real estate professionals coming to the NAR Conference," said Anthony DeCristofaro, president and CEO, iseemedia. "Virtual tours have become an essential marketing tool for the real estate professional and iseemedia's technology remains at the forefront, delivering unprecedented image quality that makes for a superior experience for the homebuyer. RealBiz360 intends to market this suite of services to real estate agents, photographers and broker offices throughout North America in a revenue sharing model with iseemedia." A Self-Serve Portal That Generates Leads for Agents The new High-Definition Virtual Tour capability is integrated at no additional cost and will be available in the latest release of RealBiz360.com's essential Web-based marketing applications for real estate professionals, which includes RealBiz TourBuilder and RealBiz WebCreator. TourBuilder is an easy-to-use application that enables a real estate agent to easily create an unlimited number of High-Definition Virtual Tours of their properties and automatically link them to real estate sites such as Realtor.com, Picture Path and the myriad of MLS sites in the U.S. and Canada. For agents that also want their own Web site, there is WebCreator, a wizard-driven Web application that allows the real estate professional to easily create and manage their own website with all their listings, complete with High-Definition Virtual Tours and other images. A sampling of the newest features in this release include adding background music to virtual tours, creating marketing brochures of listed properties, and saving virtual tours to a CD to distribute to clientele. This solution has made the virtual tour experience essential for real estate agents to market their properties and give their clients the feeling of walking into a home and seeing it live. About The High-Definition Virtual Tour Technology Tours created on the RealBiz360.com portal utilize iseemedia's Photovista™ and ImageServer 5XE, the Company’s market-leading virtual tour software and rich media delivery solution platform, , which are designed to take full advantage of today's higher resolution, multi-mega-pixel digital cameras and new generation of VR photographic equipment. iseemedia's patented streaming technology enables a potential home buyer to zoom-in on an image on demand to see higher resolution details captured by these new cameras. The technology serves up images in higher resolution irrespective of the requester, so users can see the detailed quality of High-Definition Virtual Tours and other images equally whether from a desktop or a mobile device. Mobile device capability will be rolled out on RealBiz360.com in the coming months with the launch of iseemedia's iseemobility 5M products. iseemedia and RealBiz will be previewing the wireless version of the High-Definition Virtual Tour to attendees at the NAR convention. About RealBiz RealBiz, LLC is a privately held company formed in 2004. Its RealBiz360.com, a PicturePath Partner, is the first self-serve model for Real Estate Professionals that combines both a Website and Virtual Tour Solution. This online solution includes the easy-to-use TourBuilder and WebCreator applications that enable Real Estate agents to quickly and easy create and manage a professional online marketing presence. For more information, please contact the sales staff at 1.888.REALBIZ (732-5249) ext. 81 or by email at sales@realbiz360.com. About iseemedia iseemedia inc. is a technology leader in rich media content delivery and management for Internet and mobile wireless applications. The company's patented technology sits at the heart of rich media content delivery solutions from e-tailing to medical applications to real estate virtual tours. More than 200 organizations use iseemedia's technology to deliver a more robust, richer Internet experience to their customers and communities, including the Vatican Museums, Nine West, Kenneth Cole, Jones Apparel, Toyota, Hitachi Automotive Products, Four Seasons Hotels, Speedera, Puma and Advanced Micro Devices. For more information visit www.iseemedia.com. |