So here’s a story from Newsday (a little advertorial, but that’s OK) about an island (and, of course, the 4,000-square-foot house on it) for sale just a little north of me: An island for sale in Southold at $2.495M, house included.

There are a lot of real estate stories on Long Island, especially out east where I am. It’s the primary industry and is interesting both to the real estate industry folks, the locals who support the industry and the folks like Bob Bierman who come out and ruin the summer for us locals.

A story like this would be perfect for a virtual reality piece, if it could be done quickly and fairly cheaply. There’s no telling how long the property will be on the market, so you don’t want to dump too many resources into it, but it could be up for grabs for a year or more, maybe even two. The $2.5 million price tag is actually pretty affordable for property out here, so it’s a bit of a bargain.

So imagine how cool it would be to start a VR experience at the bridge from the mainland onto this property, follow the driveway up to the house, tour the house, take a swim in the pool and then take a leisurely walk along the half-mile of beachfront and the woods surrounding the house. Make you want to pony up the $2.5 mil yet?

The article on Newsday has one crappy photo, and an aerial at that, that doesn’t even show the house.

Look, everyone on Long Island who doesn’t own a McMansion dreams of owning a home like this, or a larger $10 million to $30 million McMansion on the ocean or bay, so why not feed into that dream and let people take a walk through these kinds of properties, even if only digitally for a while.

I imagine that would get a lot of hits on the web and be a pretty cool feature. If you did one for a listing or two a week, you’d really have something there.