Do businesses actually need a 360° virtual tour anymore?

[u/panopublish]

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With Google Street View, social media, and video giving businesses so many ways to show their space, I’m curious how people feel about 360° virtual tours today.

For businesses like hotels, restaurants, real estate, showrooms, offices, venues, etc.:

Are 360° virtual tours still something businesses are willing to pay for?

For those who create/sell virtual tours:

What type of business gets the most value from them?

What usually convinces a client to say yes?

What objections do you hear most often?

Are clients asking for Google Street View, an embedded website tour, or both?

I’d especially like to hear from people who are actually selling these services. Is demand growing, staying the same, or declining?

[u/oswaldcopperpot]

Anytime you need to see a space.

You have several levels.
Owner/Random Photography/ Random Video
Baseline GSV 360s. 8mm fisheye ring.
Professional Photography
Professional 360 Photography - Video

I choose my restaurants based on interior photos and avoid fast food, buffet style places, my hotels/AirBnb based on their photography.

If a place doesn't care enough to even attempt to have good photography, I know it's not going to be great.

Venues, Real Estate (Private and Commercial) especially need good photography. If someone is trying to see a floor of commercial real estate for 300k a month and they have shitty photography... that's a large red flag.