Why Choose Matterport When Creating 3D Virtual Tours

Why Choose Matterport When Creating 3D Virtual Tours

Anyone who runs a business utilizing a physical space can greatly benefit from offering a 3D virtual experience. By incorporating 3D virtual tours into any business model, it creates an increased interest and engagement among its consumers. It provides a convenient yet interactive way for customers to learn more about what is being offered, thereby improving brand awareness and customer engagement. While embedding 3D tours on the website can boost internet presence and local listing. But why choose Matterport to create it for your business?

Matterport technology can create realistic, interactive, and fully immersive virtual experiences through its three-dimensional camera system. It’s also convenient to use because it can do everything from capturing images, collecting measurements, to processing data to create, edit, and share a 3D rendering of spaces. 

There are other technologies that companies use to create virtual tours, but Matterport is one of the best. While different technology offers different unique features, Matterport remains to be superior because it has a good combination of qualities. These qualities will prove to be highly beneficial to your business once you’ve seen finished Matterport 3D renderings of spaces. But to enlighten you further, here are the reasons why you will not regret choosing Matterport. 

 

You Can Expect High-Quality Virtual Tours

The worry of most people when it comes to 3D virtual tours is that it may not even look real. Like how some photos taken by wide lenses result in rooms looking wide but are actually not in person. Well, that isn’t really an issue when it comes to 3D virtual tours. Since the viewer or the one taking the tour can navigate the house as freely as they would have in an in-person tour, they’re able to see the space in true perspective. 

Moreover, Matterport is known for creating highly realistic virtual environments. It is very interactive without compromising quality. People taking a Matterport virtual tour can view the space from any angle and get a 360-degree view while exploring from a first-person viewpoint. So, you can rest assured that you’ll feel like you’re actually in that property without actually going.  

 

It Gives Precision And Accuracy

Matterport Pro2 3D and Leica BLK360 cameras are what they usually use when creating virtual tours for real estate.  The first is an all-in-one 3D capture solution providing the highest quality and precision. It has a professional photo resolution of 13 megapixels and 3D accuracy. Aside from that, it’s perfect for scanning any size space from simple residential to large and complex commercial spaces. Not to mention how it generates highly accurate schematic floor plans.

The latter guarantees high precision and accuracy for large indoor spaces and outdoor locations. It also delivers the highest level of 3D accuracy (150-megapixel full-dome capture). Produces 34 megapixels photo resolution, 3-camera system and schematic floor plans.

 

It’s A Versatile Technology

With its high-end 3D technology, Matterport is compatible with an array of 3D cameras, 360 cameras and even works with iPhone meeting all your virtual tour creation requirements—convenience, size, scale, and complexity.  Because of that, it allows you to scan virtually any space, may it be big or small. Aside from that, it is being used by a wide variety of industries for creating virtual spaces. This makes Matterport a very versatile technology which makes it so much easier to use. Adding and sharing of data is even easy and convenient. 

 

It Guarantees Customer Satisfaction

A real estate agent can set itself apart from the competition by offering this new and improved way to do initial viewings. Property hunters will immediately perceive an agency to be a better choice once they feel like they took an extra step to make things more convenient. And a virtual tour that is easy to navigate, provides panoramic and 360° view, includes floor plan and measurements, and loads fast are definitely something that will impress buyers. This often leads to a second viewing more than a traditional open house.

Increase Interest On Your Listing And Build Your Pool Of Potential Buyers

Nowadays, online shoppers already expect to see a virtual tour on real estate websites as well as their listings. Compared to those property listings that only use photos, Realtor.com found that integrating virtual tours get a significant 87% more views. The more views a listing gets means more potential clients booking a reservation for the property which often leads to closed deals. Visitors and potential customers find virtual tours and panoramic images deeply engaging, interesting and convenient. And by meeting those needs and expectations, you’re increasing your pool of potential buyers in the future.  

 

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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