3D Virtual Tours for Caravans and Motorhomes

3D Virtual Tours for Caravans and Motorhomes

Life is too short not to see the wonders of the world. While others choose to constantly travel for vacations, others have found a happier life living the nomadic way. Who wouldn’t love the idea of living by the beach or by the mountains and see parks and beautiful places whenever? In fact, as of this year, 9 million households own recreational vehicles and those numbers are expected to rise as more and more millennials want to pursue that lifestyle.

Campers aren’t just doing it for mere vacation, they are living an extraordinary life, literally bringing their entire home with them and live comfortably on the road. Hence, choosing the best yet affordable caravan or campervan is just as important and a meticulous process for them as to how we do in house hunting.  These people are leading an action-packed life and the word “boring” is probably not in their vocabulary. So, it is safe to say that in order to effectively market an RV to them would require ingenuity.

The best way to market campervans and caravans to them is to take them into the “action”. Wherever they are, they can browse through a selection of RVs through 3D virtual tours. The immersive and interactive feature allows them to check out their dream RV in details and see all its features.

A high-quality virtual tour impresses and engages your audiences. It invites more visitors, increases returning customers, shareable to social media sites, increases sales, and creates a unique branding. 3D Virtual Tours is a smart marketing strategy that promotes your product in the most efficient and cost-effective way. It eliminates the need for personal meetings, expensive presentations, and travel costs—saving you both time and money.

 

What To Expect With A Matterport RV 3D Virtual Tour

Matterport is the leading software in creating any form of virtual experience and popular among real estate professionals. It facilitates the creation, customization, and publishing of 3D virtual tours. This allows both realtors and customers to explore any model of recreational vehicles at their leisure, easily accessible through their phones or web browsers. With a Matterport Virtual Tour, your buyer would be confident that what they are seeing online is accurately what it looks like in real life.

Allow your customer to walk through and navigate around their dream caravan using Matterport Tour in 3 views:

 

360 Walkthrough

This view is a whole new level of immersion and interactiveness with an extreme level of detail. Walk from room to room, look around, and check areas you are interested in like you are inside the recreational van. Don’t forget to make use of the multimedia tags that introduces you to each feature inside the RV and by clicking on it, you would even see the other hidden storage and appliances. Want to see how big the bathroom or bedroom is? Move your cursor and click where you want to go and you will be instantly transported to any area of the RV. You can either zoom in or zoom out of any area for more precise scrutiny. Look up, look down, and look all around seamlessly. At the bottom of the tour, you can click auto-play mode which is a montage in a walking/flying-through fashion of the whole RV. Highlight reel navigation is also found at the bottom that allows you to see still photos of the specific area of the RV just by clicking each picture.

 

Dollhouse View

This feature is currently unique to a Matterport 3D virtual tour which helps to set apart your virtual tour from other RV providers. This view allows you and your customer to see the whole space and enables you to rotate the 3D model to better appreciate every angle of the RV and how each area looks when compared to the whole space.

 

Floorplan View

The floorplan view provides you with the bird’s eye view of the recreational van that would allow you to understand the entire layout while providing you with the exact dimension and scale. It illustrates the exact amount of space your furniture or fixtures occupy and the location of the doors and windows.

 

Virtual tours offer an innovative marketing strategy that allows you to get ahead of the competitive RV market and provide a better service to your customers. For your interactive 3D content needs, check out  Smartview Media, an Australian-based 3D virtual tour supplier that provides virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and the latest in 3D modelling solutions using the Matterport Software to showcase physical locations and products to online audiences.

 

 

frequently asked questions

Matterport is an American based SaaS company that provides a platform for creating 3D Virtual Tours. Professional tour creators use the platform to deliver high-quality products to clients.

Matterport is an all-in-one solution that has unparalleled quality and is easy for your customers to use. With secure model management & cloud servers, it’s always available when you or your customers need it.

3D Virtual Tours are included on your website through the use of an iFrame. An iFrame is a bit of code that allows the tour experience to be embedded in your website, eliminating the need for users to click a link and be redirected to another website page. Matterport provides these codes with limited functionality, SmartView Media provides custom iFrame codes to our clients that allow a great level of control and customisation for how the tours are displayed on your website. These options can easily be turned on and off by customers in our SmartHub platform.

Our tours using an Embed code to connect seamlessly with your website, regardless of how your website is built it will be able to display one of our 3D Tours.

Scanning will take at least 1-2 hours depending on the model or the space being scanned. Some spaces with difficult geometry & scan points require for more time to process. Normally our team can have a completed 3D Tour back to you in 48 hours.

A typical 360 Tour is a combination of 360 panoramic images, these images are then added to 3rd party software and use a button in each image to link to the next image in the sequence. This allows the user to move from one image to the next.

A Matterport 3D Virtual Tour is a combination of 360 panoramic images and infrared scan data. The images and IR data are combined using photogrammetry & AI to make a digital 3D model. This 3D model is accurate to within 1% and allows the user to view a Floor Plan, Dollhouse & take measurements all while moving freely around the location.

This really depends on several factors, from the size and complexity of the location that is being captured down to the level of desired detail. The more 3D Scan points a Matterport Tour has, the better the final result will be for the end user experience, as the scan points are the locations that a user can view the space from. A typical home can range from 90mins to 180mins depending on it’s size, room & furniture layout. An office location of 1000 sqm can take around 120mins to 180mins for the same reasons mentioned previously.

A Matterport 3D Virtual Tour is created by capturing a combination of infrared data & 360 panoramic images. This combination is called a 3D Scan. A Matterport 3D Virtual Tour is the combination of these 3D Scans, which are captured at regular intervals throughout a location, this information is then combined to create an interactive 3D Mesh which allows the user to move from point to point to view the model.

No, it currently isn’t possible to download a Matterport 3D Tour. The tours can be embedded on your website, but as the tours are stored in the cloud they will always require an internet connection in order to access them. It is not possible to download them and put them on a hard drive or USB memory stick.

In order to capture the most detailed 3D Virtual Tour experience possible for your location, it is best that as few people as possible are around. This prevents any unwanted captures of people moving through rooms.

Matterport Pro 2 cameras use infrared to assist with 3D mapping the surrounding environment, as a result the platform is best suited to capturing indoor areas. However, we can utilise 360 images combined with the Cortex feature to capture external areas in the right circumstances.

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Ready to showcase your space with an immersive 3D virtual tour? Get in touch with our team today! Whether you’re in real estate, construction, retail, or hospitality, we’ll create a high-quality 3D experience tailored to your needs. 
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