Greetings from Virtually Anywhere.  We have been especially busy since our last email to you earlier this year, having added many virtual tours in all the various industries we work for, and now we are proud to add eBay as one of our newest clients. Read the story below of this very interesting Designer Showhouse project that has been featured on several TV shows and publications, including “Good Morning America” and an A&E documentary called “Point. Click. Design,” The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune.

Then take a look at the full website we created featuring a virtual tour loaded with features that allow users to not only experience the Showhouse first hand, but also help them to discover ideas and buy items to make their own houses more hip.

And remember, we work for all size companies creating sophisticated, yet user friendly interactive presentations for any business that needs to show off their environment, whatever it may be.

Earlier this year eBay extended a challenge to eight hot interior designers for its Showhouse 2004: decorate a room using only items purchased on eBay. Then eBay faced its own challenge: how to share the designers’ creations with its worldwide customers through a cool virtual tour?

“Finding Virtually Anywhere was a stroke of luck, because there are a million virtual tour companies out there, but few who can deliver the sophisticated and elegant virtual experience we envisioned,” says Sravanthi Agrawal, spokesperson, eBay Corporate Communications.

“We thought we’d have to hire two vendors to deliver our whole package — a virtual tour designer, and a still photographer,” explains Sravanthi. “However, Virtually Anywhere’s wide-ranging online design artistry convinced us they were up for the entire challenge. They took the lead on the entire project and ran with it.”

Because eBay’s Showhouse 2004 featured so many highly talented interior designers, each with his or her own unique styles, Virtually Anywhere wanted to create an online experience that brought them all together into a single online event, yet also let each designer’s unique flair shine through, explains Carrington Weems, Principle and Creative Director of Virtually Anywhere. “We aimed for an upscale virtual experience that both showcases the interior designers’ innovative creations and gives design-conscious viewers an online experience that exceeds what is typically lacking in most Internet sites.”

“We are thrilled the end result,” says Sravanthi. “We feel that it’s night and day from the simpler virtual tour we had last year for Showhouse 2003. It’s like community college versus Ivy League.”

While New York City residents were able to tour that actual townhouse in early June, the rest of the world can visit the Showhouse 2004 online until the end of the year at www.ebay.com/showhouse. The Web site allows visitors to tour the home’s eight room designs, meet the designers, view still photographs of the eBay-purchased items, click on hot spots to get product links, and keep track of items viewers like.

For more information, contact:
Carrington Weems
Virtually Anywhere Interactive
512-454-1680

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