Glossary

A 360° virtual tour lets you look around a room from inside it — as a panorama, a walkable 3D scene, or both — instead of inferring the space from flat listing photos.

A digital twin is a living digital model of a real asset. In real estate the phrase is often used loosely for 3D tours — most listing tours are not.

A digitally altered listing image was staged, restyled, or edited after capture. Many MLSs require a conspicuous disclosure plus a path to the original.

A panorama is a wide or 360° image stitched from more than one view. In interiors, it is the ancestor of a look-around tour — and not the same as a walkable 3D room.

A virtual walkthrough is a 3D interior you can move through, not only spin in place. Listing tours, WASD walks, and dollhouses share the phrase.

A white-label tour is a 360° walkthrough URL that carries your brokerage brand, not the vendor's. The 3D is the same; the chrome changes.

AI interior design restyles a photo of a real room — furniture, materials, and color — without moving the walls. Here is what it can change, and what it cannot.

AI virtual staging uses a model to furnish or restyle a photo of a real room. Walls stay; furniture and finishes change — staging with a faster pipeline.

Gaussian splatting (3DGS) turns a photo into millions of soft 3D points instead of a mesh — the technique that lets you walk through a room in a browser.

Photogrammetry reconstructs 3D geometry from many overlapping photographs. Phone scanners use it; a one-photo interior restyle does not.

Virtual staging is digitally furnishing a photo of a real room so buyers can see how an empty or dated space could live — without a truck, a stager, or a second shoot.