Ways To Enjoy Christmas This Year With The Help Of Matterport Virtual Tours

Ways To Enjoy Christmas This Year With The Help Of Matterport Virtual Tours

It may not be possible to hold your usual Christmas parties because of the current restrictions to large gatherings but you can still celebrate and enjoy it all the same. Although you may have to get creative and make some adjustments.

Sure you can eat and toast with those you already live within the house, but for other things you like to do for Christmas you’d have to do them differently. The good news is that Christmas is still happening and you get to try something new and interesting to celebrate it! Using  Matterport 3D virtual tours, for one, are becoming popular these days. You’ll get to see some examples below.

Having said that, here are some ideas that will help you create a celebration you and possibly your friends and relatives will remember and talk about in the years to come.

 

Take Virtual Tours Of Europe’s Best Christmas Markets

Different countries and cultures celebrate Christmas differently. While all of them are great in their own way, there’s just something special and festive with how Europe does it especially with their Christmas markets.

Although some European countries had to cancel their Christmas markets this year, there’s still a way to experience some of them virtually.

 

Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin – once the pandemic is over and you can travel, you’ll be able to find and enjoy more than a couple of markets around the city. But for now, you can take this virtual tour and get a taste of what they have to offer.

 

London – if you want a quick visit to different markets in London, this tour will take you there. You get to see the colorful Carnaby Street, the sparkling lights of Oxford Circus and giant ornament and mistletoe of Covent Garden.

 

Der Kleine Eistraum (Little Ice Dream), Vienna–this tour will show you every angle of Vienna’s largest Christmas market. From the glittering arches of the entry to the stalls and ice rink. You may even feel the urge to travel there for Christmas next year because of this footage from the previous year as it shows the visitors waking around and enjoying it.

 

Visit Popular Christmas Destinations Online

For those who always go on a trip for their Christmas vacation are probably a bit disheartened that they can’t do that this year. But, don’t worry because these 3D virtual tours will help you cheer up. This virtual tour of Santa’s house in the North Pole may be a bit more popular for kids but it can still be fascinating for those seeing it for the first time. Want to visit somewhere that feels like the North Pole and watch some adorable reindeers and huskies? This Lapland tour is a great watch.  Dublin, Ireland will get you all excited as they celebrate with an irrepressible sense of cheer. Here are some of the tours that will show you how they enjoy the holidays.

 

Do A Virtual Christmas Shopping

Did you know that shopping stores have started combining Matterport 3D tours of their stores with eCommerce? So you can now virtually check out stores and click on the link to buy an item that you liked while browsing. Much like how you would do your Christmas shopping, right? What’s even amazing is that because you can do this online, you may even be able to shop from other countries.

 

Organize A Virtual Christmas Party With Friends

If you used to go out with friends for Christmas parties, how about a virtual party on zoom or something the same? You can go big and really prepare a fun theme and dress up or keep it simple by simply catching up and virtual toasting champagne! Whatever you and your friends are most comfortable with, what’s important is you guys still made the effort to reconnect and celebrate the holidays together even through the computer.

 

Meet Santa Virtually

When was the last time you celebrated with santa? Probably when you were still a kid, right? Why not try it again, but virtually this time? You can now reminisce about being young again and how fun was it back then when you still waited for Santa to deliver your gift. You may want to try Zoom with Santa and Virtual Grotto Experience. As these services being offered are new, we have not tried them out and cannot vouch for them. There are more like these services but it may be fun to just try out those two and see how it is. With everything that’s been going on, these may actually be fun for a change.

 

Explore Holidays Around The World

Speaking of different ways to celebrate Christmas around the world, how about you take this time to get introduced with some of them? You may find some of the December holidays and traditions from other places interesting and fun to try. Watch thesetours and you may just feel like you’ve experienced it first hand. But who knows? Maybe you will someday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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