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Matterport 3D Tours

An immersive experience, an "always-open" open house.

Matterport 3D Tours are the next best thing to actually being there. This advanced technology allows viewers to look up, down, and spin 360 degrees as you virtually walkthrough the property. Take it for a spin, click play below to experience a 3D Matterport Tour for yourself.

What You Can Expect

Our Team of professionals efficiently scan the property, to capture spatial data, that is then rendered into a dimensionally accurate 3D model.

VHT Studios Matterport 3D Tours include:

Dollhouse view.

Zoom out to see the entire structure of the home in all it's glory.

Floor Plan View

Click each level to better understand the space and to see the layout of each floor.

Interior View

Use your touch screen, keys or mouse to navigate through the home.

Experience the space

Bring your home to life.

Blow prospective buyers away with 3D Showcase – an immersive online 3D experience that gives buyers a true sense of the feeling of your property before they ever see it in person. We put Matterport’s industry-leading technology to work for your listing. Weed out less interested buyers, and attract more qualified open house attendees.

YOUR PROPERTY IN IMMERSIVE 3D, READY ON DAY 1

• We scan your property with the Matterport Pro Camera.
• Within hours, your virtual Matterport Space is ready to experience.
• Anyone can explore with ease, right from their browser.

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Create a connection

Home buyers will create an immediate, lasting emotional connection to a property because they can experience it as if they were really there.

Engage more buyers

Matterport spaces are easy to share, so anyone with a computer or mobile device can have the open house experience from anywhere.

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Generate momentum like you wouldn’t believe before the first open house with a space-age tool that will captivate buyers and motivate them to make an offer.

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Dollhouse view, floorplan view, aerial view.

Client Stories

I love what they do with these tours. Price is very affordable, and well worth it!

— Marco D.

Great customer service. The online tours helped me save a lot of time with showing the apartments. I highly recommend letting Matterdrone shoot your properties! 10/10 stars.

— Adam N.

Tom at MatterDrone helped me sell my listings faster than I ever have. They really know what they are doing with these 3D tours.

— Tony Z.

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Our expertise guarantees equal quality for all your 3D virtual tours with successful transitions and smooth navigation for your customers. Stand out from the competition with breathtaking immersive 3D virtual tours and stunning professional photos.

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Thank you for this high-quality and very professional work! This service has enabled our company, Club Med Sainte Anne in Seychelles, to offer our customers better visibility of our products. This service allows customers to be fully immersed at 100%.

We’ve worked with Jean Pierre several times and were always very satisfied both by the quality of the final product and by the excellent service level. Having virtual tours of our properties help us immensely when marketing our products internationally, especially during these difficult times where travel is not as readily available.

Of all the ways to showcase our homes, virtual tours are a great value to any project. Virtual Tour Travel enhances the concept. Their responsiveness and creativity make their service an asset to the entire virtual tour experience.

Professional service, tailormade, sharp in-time, flexible and creative to bring out the best out of the product. Excellent job done, thanks to you and your team behind. Our next project, our new sister resort coming up end 2021 is waiting to be set in fame by you in 3D. Cheers from the Shanti Hospitality team Mauritius.

Working with Jean Pierre was a pleasure, on time and always delivering a high quality work. He knows his job and what he is doing perfectly, dealing with suppliers like him is smooth and easy.

We highly recommend the services of Virtual Tour Travel. We are satisfied with the work done and find its price to be really competitive value for money.

An essential presentation tool to showcase properties and to allow clients to get a real sense of space and the environment. 5* for quality of the visuals and the professionalism in the services delivered by Virtual Tour Travel.

I definitely recommend Virtual Tour Travel for their professionalism and great work. This new tool has supported sales conversion for us and the quality of the visual is superb and allows our guests to immerse in their private villa for their upcoming holiday.

3D Virtual Tour is a really good tool and one of the best in quality that we used so far. I really recommend this new technology with Virtual Tour Travel as it is completely immersive.

I want to say that Virtual Tour Travel has done an amazing job in transforming the way our resort can be seen. The 3D Matterport has given a complete turnaround in how guests can visit our facilities much before stepping into the place, making their booking decision easier, thus…converting a simple virtual tour into a booking.

The virtual tour is a must for our Resort as we do not have hotel rooms, but villas with a garden, a pool, a view, a lounge & dining rooms… Working with Virtual Tour Travel has been a real pleasure & thanks to their professionalism & vision, our customers can now have their own experience of how it feels like staying at Marguery Villas!

The virtual tour have allowed our property buyers to get an amazing sense of place of the village, without being able to come and visit, the quality of the images are so great that you really feel as if you were wondering through the place. Virtual Tour Travel has the perfect eye for what will render well and what needs to be avoided in the images.

Meet inside your Matterport tours

Matterport + SuperViz enables real-time meetings directly inside digital twins.  It’s immersive, integrated video conferencing  for real estate, construction, insurance, hospitality, and retail. With a few clicks you can meet virtually inside remote spaces to showcase, sell and collaborate with a sense of presence.

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Matterport Pro2 3D Camera - High Precision for Virtual Tours, 3D Mapping, & Digital Surveys with 360 Views and 4K Photography with Trusted Accuracy and Speed

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• CREATE BEAUTIFUL, PROFESSIONAL 3D DIGITAL TWINS - Scan a variety of indoor spaces like houses, apartments, hotels, and commercial buildings to create high-resolution, photo-realistic 3D models with the Matterport Pro2 3D Camera. 1.5M depth-points in every scan for highly detailed 3D models.
• IMMERSIVE, HIGH RESOLUTION, PHOTO-REALISTIC DIGITAL TWINS - With the Matterport Pro2 3D Camera you can create beautiful digital twins that are highly immersive and life-like. Capture every detail in stunning 4K (134 megapixel resolution).
• FAST CAPTURE in under 30 SECONDS PER SCAN - Speed through your scans with the Matterport Pro2 3D Camera. Get a complete scan in under 3040 seconds per scan. That's fast enough to keep up with your busiest day.
• HIGHLY ACCURATE SCANS DOWN TO 50 MM - The Matterport Pro2 3D Camera is highly accurate, scanning down to +/-50 mm. This attention to detail ensures that you get the most out of your scans and achieve the best results possible. INCREASE SCANNING EFFICIENCY WITH INCLUDED ACCESSORIES - Pro2 ships with the AC charging cable included in the box.
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How Matterport 3D Tours Can Take Your Property Listings to the Next Level

 In today’s digital age, apartment marketing has become a highly competitive field. With so many properties vying for attention, it’s more important than ever to stand out from the crowd and showcase your property in the most effective way possible. One innovative way to do this is by using Matterport 3D tours.

These virtual tours allow potential renters to explore your apartment remotely, giving them a unique and immersive experience that can help drive interest and increase conversions. In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of using Matterport 3D tours for apartment marketing and provide some new ideas and advice to help you get the most out of this technology.

Matterport 3D tours are a game-changer for apartment marketing. By providing potential renters with a virtual tour of your property, you can give them a more accurate and detailed understanding of what your apartment has to offer. Here are some new ideas and tips to help you get the most out of Matterport 3D tours:

• Enhance the Leasing Experience:  Matterport 3D tours can enhance the leasing experience by providing potential renters with a more personalized and interactive experience. This can include features such as virtual tours, 3D models, and interactive hotspots.
• Increase Conversions:  By providing potential renters with a virtual tour of your property, you can increase conversions by giving them a more accurate and detailed understanding of what your apartment has to offer.
• Reduce No-Shows:  Matterport 3D tours can reduce no-shows by giving potential renters a better understanding of your property before they visit in person.
• Increase Engagement:  Matterport 3D tours can increase engagement by allowing potential renters to explore your property at their own pace.
• Target High-Quality Tenants:  By showcasing your property’s best features through a Matterport 3D tour, you can attract high-quality tenants who are looking for a specific type of property.

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• Make sure to optimize your Matterport 3D tour for mobile devices, as this is where most potential renters will be accessing it.
• Use high-quality images and virtual tours to showcase your property’s best features.
• Consider offering Matterport 3D tours as an exclusive benefit to potential renters who have signed up for your newsletter or followed you on social media.
• Use Matterport 3D tours to showcase amenities and services, such as a fitness center or dog park.
• Consider offering Matterport 3D tours in multiple languages to attract international renters.

Conclusion:  Matterport 3D tours are a powerful tool for apartment marketing. By providing potential renters with a virtual tour of your property, you can give them a more accurate and detailed understanding of what your apartment has to offer. With its ability to enhance the leasing experience, increase conversions, reduce no-shows, increase engagement, and target high-quality tenants, Matterport 3D tours are a valuable addition to any apartment marketing strategy. By incorporating these new ideas and tips into your marketing plan, you can stay ahead of the competition and attract the best renters for your property.

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Whether you want to entice buyers, engage with guests, or impress event planners and patrons, Matterport 3D virtual tours can help you do more business, faster.

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Engage your customers like never before.

People are shown to be 300% more engaged with a Matterport 3D virtual tour than they are with 2D imagery. Virtual tours can help you create better experiences, happier customers, and more revenue.

“The quality of Matterport digital twins instantly builds trust with a prospective buyer. That trust factor is why 71% of our customers, now feel comfortable enough to buy a house sight-unseen when the listing includes a 3D virtual tour from Matterport.”

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“It's a really unique experience. It gives them an opportunity to look at the house from every angle and do it from the comfort of their own home. It’s a 24-hour open house”

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“Since adopting Matterport, we find prospects have spent time viewing the 3D virtual tour, getting to know the property, and come to the viewing as authentic, interested parties”

James Quantrell ,  Director Winkworth Guildford

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From professional-grade cameras to the phone in your pocket, we make it easy to find the right capture method for your business needs. Or if you’d rather leave the work to us, our Capture Services Team can scan each property for you.

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Go beyond 3D tours.

With Matterport digital twins, 3D tours are just the beginning of the benefits available to your team. • Use Notes to add comments within a space. • Create accurate measurements. • Generate 4K print quality photos, schematic floor     plans, and guided tours. • Share on social media sites, such as LinkedIn,     Facebook, and YouTube. •  Publish to Google Street View, VRBO, and     Realtor.com. • Embed your 3D space on your website.

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With Matterport digital twins, 3D tours are just the beginning of the benefits available to your team. • Use Notes to add comments within a    space. • Create accurate measurements. • Generate 4K print quality photos,     schematic floor  plans, and guided tours. • Share on social media sites, such as     LinkedIn,  Facebook, and YouTube. •  Publish to Google Street View, VRBO, and     Realtor.com. • Embed your 3D space on your website.

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Turn any space into an immersive 3D digital twin that you can share for work, play, and everything in between. So whether you’re a content creator pushing the boundaries of creativity, a home improvement aficionado looking to share your latest home project, a business owner wanting to engage prospective customers 24/7, or a contractor documenting daily site conditions, we have you covered.

Accelerate your sales

Promote properties, engage buyers, get more offers. Precision 3D capture helps you stand out from the competition, increasing engagement, viewership and interaction.

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Capture and promote your listings by posting virtual tours on your website, or publish directly to an MLS, realtor.com and other popular sites. Prospective buyers can walk through properties on their own from anywhere, anytime and any device.

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If you’re in the construction or remodeling business, Matterport for Mobile lets you conveniently document daily site conditions and quickly share them with collaborators, reducing or eliminating time onsite.

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Why Matt Fitzpatrick was unable to replace cracked driver at BMW Championship

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During Sunday's final round of the BMW Championship, Matt Fitzpatrick called for a ruling on the eighth tee after noticing a crack in his driver clubface. He was not able to replace the damaged club, however.

This is why.

PGA TOUR Chief Referee Stephen Cox said a "minor crack" was visible on the face of Fitzpatrick's driver. While a crack can impact the club's performance, it does not meet the threshold of being "significantly damaged" that would allow it to be replaced under the USGA's Model Local Rule G-9. The rule provides examples of when a club may be replaced, while also stating that "a club face or clubhead is not 'broken or significantly damaged' solely because it is cracked."

“The rule details a number of situations where the club would be allowed to be replaced, but the rule states that a crack in and of itself does not meet the threshold of being significantly damaged," Cox said. "In our assessment -- not only the first official, but also a couple of others including myself -- that threshold of being significantly damaged hadn't been met. Although there was a small crack in the face, there was no separation in the metals and on that basis that threshold wasn't met."

England’s Fitzpatrick came into the week at 36th in the FedExCup standings, needing a strong finish at Castle Pines to advance to the top-30 TOUR Championship at East Lake in Atlanta, where someone will win the FedExCup.

Rounds of 74-72-71 put him on his back foot, and he needed a low one Sunday. He made seven birdies Sunday but they were offset by three bogeys and a double bogey, en route to a 2-under 70 that will leave him shy of a trip to East Lake.

Fitzpatrick finished the week at 1-under 287, in the middle of the pack on the Castle Pines leaderboard.