The newest generation of the GoTour® Home Experience app earns praise from Constructech magazine, and draws crowds of builders and product manufacturers at the 2016 International Builders’ Show

MADISION, WI (February 4, 2016) – For a fourth consecutive year, the GoTour® New Home Experience app is a winner of the Residential Constructech Top Products award. The award highlights achievements and advancements in technology that have greatly impacted the homebuilding market. Through mobile devices and web, GoTour® combines immersive VR technology with a feature-rich information delivery platform that attracts, captivates and helps convert sales prospects. Introduced in 2012, the latest 2015 version of GoTour® integrates Matterport technology to provide dynamic 3D floor plans and allow users to control “dollhouse” views from any angle and zoom to any room for a virtual walk-through.

“GoTour® is addictive,” says Paul Cardis, founder and CEO at Avid Ratings. “In the four years we’ve been tracking user analytics, the number of visits returning users make to our clients’ GoTour® interfaces are consistently in the double digits. They also spend more time exploring with GoTour®. Unlike conventional video or Matterport tours, GoTour® provides access to detailed product information, embedded videos, and the ability to pre-select options to virtually personalize a home. Homebuyers can do this at home, at the coffee shop, in a sales model.”

Builders and building product manufacturers attending the 2016 International Builders’ Show got an exclusive opportunity to experience GoTour® on VR headsets. Avid is testing the experiential technology, but currently does not offer a VR headset version of GoTour® that, Cardis says, could add tremendous appeal to the idea of visiting design centers and sales models.

At the 2015 International Builders’ Show, Avid debuted the award-winning GoTour® technology ONSITE, described as a “museum tour” expansion of GoTour® that integrates iBeacon technology to activate location-specific home feature content inside sales models. Users either download the GoTour® app to their mobile devices or use an iPad provided by a sales associate and while independently touring a model, are shown product information, available options, and videos providing details about nearby features.

“The homebuilding community needs the right software tools and applications that will help it forge new pathways to profitability, especially as the market begins to pick up,” says Peggy Smedley, editorial director, Constructech magazine. “The 2016 residential Top Products winners are truly demonstrating their success in this area for homebuilders today.”

Award submissions are judged on originality and overall usefulness. Each entry is then evaluated based on its performance in the residential construction market for helping builders achieve their technological objectives in helping advance technology and grow the construction market.

About Avid Ratings
Founded in 1992, Avid Ratings Co. (avidratings.com) is a full-service customer experience (CX) firm dedicated exclusively to helping residential construction companies maximize customer value, increase sales velocity and grow market share. Avid develops and implements end-to-end voice of customer (VoC) and integrated marketing technologies for attracting, delighting and activating loyal homebuilding and remodeling customers. Avid Ratings currently serves over 2,000 residential construction companies throughout North America and is ranked among the “50 Most Influential Tech Companies in Residential Construction” by Constructech magazine.

Contact:
Katy Biggerstaff
NewGround PR & Marketing
C: (562) 761-6338
kbiggerstaff@newgroundco.com