3d Virtual Tours & Panoramas
Immersive VR and 3D Virtual Tours for Real Estate and Design
Trusted by builders, developers and designers across Canada for over 15 years.
Virtual Reality 3d Real Estate Tours That Help You Sell Before You Build
3D virtual tours are transforming how real estate professionals market unbuilt properties—offering immersive, photo-realistic experiences that help buyers explore a space before it exists. At Shapeshifter, we create high-impact architectural walkthroughs, 360° tours, and fully interactive VR experiences that showcase every detail of your design. Perfect for pre-construction marketing, investor presentations, and buyer engagement, our virtual tours help you sell faster, communicate more clearly, and elevate your brand.
Fully Interactive, Immersive Virtual Reality Experiences
Our VR-enabled tours offer a 360° walk-through of your project, allowing viewers to move from room to room, look around freely, and explore at their own pace. These experiences help buyers and decision-makers visualize the layout, flow, and scale of a space far better than flat floor plans or static images ever could.
Built from Your Drawings, Sketches, and Designs
We create the virtual tour from the same materials used in our interior renderings: CAD drawings, PDF plans, sketches, mood boards, and material selections. From those, we build the 3D environment and render high-quality 360° views for each chosen space.
Easy to Share, Embed, and View in VR
Once complete, your tour can be shared with a simple link, embedded on your website, or viewed through a VR headset for a truly immersive experience. It’s a powerful tool for sales centers, presentations, or online listings—giving your audience 24/7 access to the space.
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3D Virtual Tours That Bring Your Project to Life
In today’s fast-moving real estate and design world, visuals aren’t just nice to have—they’re essential. Buyers want to see more than a floor plan. They want to experience a space before it’s built. That’s where 3D virtual tours come in. These immersive, 360-degree walkthroughs allow viewers to step inside your project from anywhere in the world.
Whether you’re a homebuilder, designer, developer, or marketing team, 3D virtual tours offer a powerful way to showcase properties, pitch ideas, and speed up decision-making. They turn drawings and plans into a fully explorable space—on desktop, mobile, or through a VR headset. With a 3D tour, you’re not just showing the idea; you’re letting people walk through it.
At Shapeshifter, we build our 3D virtual tours just like our interior renderings—carefully crafted from your plans, sketches, and design notes. No technical setup or 3D files required. Just send us what you have, and we’ll take care of the rest, delivering a polished, shareable, and easy-to-use experience that brings your project to life.
How We Create 3D Virtual Tours
Our process is built to be easy, efficient, and completely tailored to your needs. Whether you’re showcasing one home or an entire building, we guide you through every step with clear communication and expert support.
Step 1: Send Us Your Plans
To begin, simply send over your CAD drawings, PDFs, sketches, or concept images. You can also include mood boards, material selections, or reference photos to guide the design. We don’t require a pre-built 3D model—our team builds everything from scratch based on your input.
Step 2: We Build the Environment
Using your materials, we construct a high-quality 3D model of the interior (and exterior, if needed). We add lighting, furniture, finishes, and decor to match your design intent. Then we place virtual cameras at key locations throughout the space to create the 360° tour views.
Step 3: Review and Finalize
Once the initial draft is ready, we send it to you for review. You can request changes to furniture, lighting, materials, or layout. Once approved, we generate the final tour and provide a web-based link you can embed or share. The tour is fully interactive, mobile-friendly, and compatible with VR headsets.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are a few frequently asked questions about our exterior 3d rendering services:
Why Choose 3D Virtual Tours?
3D virtual tours aren’t just visually impressive—they’re practical. They help people make faster decisions, ask fewer questions, and feel more confident about what they’re seeing. Whether you’re selling a home, presenting a design concept, or marketing a new development, a virtual tour provides clarity in a way flat images simply can’t.
These tours also work 24/7. You don’t need to schedule a showing or walk a client through a static rendering. With a 3D virtual tour, buyers and stakeholders can explore the space on their own time, from anywhere in the world. It’s like having a digital open house available around the clock.
Most importantly, they give you an edge. In competitive markets, offering a virtual tour can set your listing, design, or proposal apart. It’s a modern, immersive, and highly professional way to present your work—and it reflects well on your brand.
Use Cases for 3D Virtual Tours
3D virtual tours are incredibly versatile and used across industries. In real estate, they’re perfect for pre-construction listings, custom home sales, and model suites. Builders and developers use them to help buyers visualize layouts and finishes before construction begins—often boosting pre-sales and cutting down on revision requests.
For architects and designers, virtual tours are a great way to present design concepts to clients. Rather than showing drawings or static renders, you can walk clients through a fully visualized space. It helps them understand the design intent, give better feedback, and feel more engaged in the process.
Even commercial spaces benefit. Leasing offices, coworking spaces, hotels, and retail environments can all be showcased in VR before a single wall goes up. This helps attract investors, secure approvals, and generate early interest.
3D Virtual Tours vs. Traditional Renderings
Traditional 3D renderings are beautiful—but they’re static. They show a single view, locked in place. A 3D virtual tour, on the other hand, allows viewers to move around, look up and down, and choose where they want to go next. It’s a deeper, more flexible experience.
Virtual tours also show how rooms connect, how light flows through a space, and how layouts feel in real time. This is especially helpful for buyers who have trouble reading floor plans or imagining spatial relationships from still images.
That said, tours and renderings work even better together. Use interior and exterior renderings for your brochures and listings, and link to a virtual tour for a more immersive experience. Together, they form a complete marketing package that’s both beautiful and functional.
Ready to begin?
A 3D virtual tour can turn a floor plan into an experience—and help you sell your idea faster. Whether you’re launching a new listing, showcasing a design concept, or preparing for a big pitch, we’re here to help you stand out with immersive, professional visuals that speak for themselves.
Just send us your plans, sketches, or inspiration, and we’ll guide you through the process. With fast turnaround times, one-on-one support, and stunning results, we’re ready when you are. Contact us today to get started on your 3D virtual tour.
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