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Matterport:  3D for Architecture, Engineering & Construction   from Matterport

Whether you work in architecture, engineering, or construction, you'll be able to streamline documentation, 3D scan as-builts, and collaborate with ease. With Matterport, you can also reduce costs and help save the most precious commodity — your time.

Our 3D data platform is the most powerful, accurate, and quickest way to document a building or property. With a compatible camera, you can capture anything from small to large spaces — both inside and outside — with the highest level of detail.

3D scanning that fits your workflow

Our platform automatically stitches all your data together and lets you export your data into other platforms easily, saving you significant amounts of manual work and time.Create 3D walkthroughs and guide anyone immediately to a virtual site tour.

Communicate key milestones quickly and effectively by eliminating travel time and by sharing and annotating in the model to get sign-offs.

Perform remote inspections, measure while offsite, and reduce site visits by capturing all data the first time.

Learn how Swinerton used Matterport to reduce client travel time by 100 percent and eliminate four weeks of potential project delays.

How 3D scan to BIM can reduce design and construction costs

Incorporating Matterport into your BIM (Building Information Modelling) process can help reduce virtual design and construction costs and help you win more bids.

Export your point cloud and easily share and render it within Revit® and other BIM tools.

Generate OBJ files and point clouds for as-builts and construction documentation.

Scan tight areas 10–15 times faster than with a typical lidar scanner.

Overlay your point cloud onto your BIM model to conduct verification.

Take measurements in difficult to access areas such as pipes, trusses, and ceiling beams.

Find out how we helped Perkins&Will work efficiently and remotely.

Get the accuracy you need from a single source

Matterport provides incredible accuracy and easy measurement in the platform.

Capture spaces that are accurate within 1% using a Matterport Pro2 camera and 0.1% with Leica BLK360.

Replace thousands of photos by capturing all imagery and data at once, and save time by eliminating the need to document, arrange, and label photos.

Get reflected ceiling plan images and schematic floor plans.

Eliminate registration markers or manual alignment.

Learn how the University of Wolverhampton created online campus tours for prospective students and improved building reconstruction.

Building Information Modeling

Matterport BIM files enable fast, easy, precision 3D as-builts for any space. Architects, designers and building engineers can now accurately capture the current state of any building and its contents in CAD and design software more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than ever before.

Matterport for Retailers

Have started to look at this and related capabilities.   And note the mention of digital twins.

Matterport Powers New Experiences for Retailers and Consumers

Retailers turn to digital twins to reach consumers virtually while providing offline, shoppable experiences

December 21, 2021 09:15 ET | Source: Matterport Inc

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matterport, Inc. (“Matterport”) (Nasdaq: MTTR), the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, is powering new experiences for retailers and their customers. Using Capture Services On-Demand, Matterport Pro2 cameras, or the Matterport Smartphone app, retail customers are creating virtual showrooms, curating shoppable digital experiences with e-commerce integration, and making store operations more efficient.

“Our retail customers use Matterport technology in a variety of different ways, whether that’s creating a virtual showroom where consumers can shop for holiday gifts or using digital twins to remotely manage store design and operations,” said Conway Chen, Vice President of Business Development of Matterport. “Even for consumers who may be locked down in their own country due to the pandemic, they can still visit their favorite store virtually and see merchandise presented in a real space, as if they were walking through an actual showroom. Our technology is also allowing influencers and designers to merchandise their products directly to their followers. Matterport technology is improving the shopping experience for both retailers and consumers.” 

Harrods uses Matterport Capture Services to create virtual showroom for consumers   ...

Matterport and Facebook AI Collaborate on 3D Spaces

Impressive efforts, including mention of staging digital twin simulations with scanned 3D Data.

Matter and Facebook AI Collaborate on Worlds Largest Dataset of 3D Spaces

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Matterport, the spatial data company leading the digital transformation of the built world, which has entered into a definitive agreement to enter into a business combination with Gores Holdings VI (NASDAQ: GHVI, GHVIU, and GHVIW, today announced a collaboration with Facebook AI Research (FAIR) through which it will make the largest-ever dataset of 3D indoor spaces available exclusively for academic, non-commercial uses. The Habitat-Matterport 3D Research Dataset (HM3D) is an unprecedented collection of 1,000 high-resolution Matterport digital twins made up of residential, commercial, and civic spaces generated precisely from real-world environments. HM3D will play a significant role in advancing embodied AI research which seeks to teach robots and virtual AI assistants to understand and interact with the complexities of the physical world.

“Until now, this rich spatial data has been glaringly absent in the field, so HM3D has the potential to change the landscape of embodied AI and 3D computer vision,” said Dhruv Batra, Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. “Our hope is that the 3D dataset brings researchers closer to building intelligent machines, to do for embodied AI what pioneers before us did for 2D computer vision and other areas of AI.”

HM3D is free and available now for academic, non-commercial research. Researchers can use it with FAIR’s Habitat simulator to train embodied agents, such as home robots and AI assistants, at scale. HM3D is a foundational step towards helping these agents navigate through real-world environments and better understand the variations of spaces such as bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and hallways, as well as the different configurations of those rooms within every structure. It can also assist robots in recognizing how objects within rooms are typically arranged so that instructions are correctly understood. This research could one day be used in production applications like robots that can retrieve medicine from a bedroom nightstand or AR glasses that can help people remember where they left their keys. 

“We are excited to collaborate with Facebook as we provide the academic and research communities access to this unique spatial dataset that is sure to impact how we work and live,” said Conway Chen, Vice President of Business Development and Alliances at Matterport. “With more than five million spaces captured with the Matterport platform, we are the only company that can offer a diverse library of high-resolution, data-rich digital twins of various styles, sizes, and complexities from across the world. HM3D can also be used more broadly by academia, and we can’t wait to see what innovations emerge.” 

“We’ve been challenged with a lack of spatial data to advance innovation in real-estate, construction, robotics, augmented reality, and more. But with the HM3D dataset from the collaboration between Matterport and Facebook AI, we're excited about the significant progress we'll make in advancing research in indoor scene reconstruction, generation, and analysis at a house-scale for the first time," said Yasutaka Furukawa, Associate Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.

Matterport has defined the spatial data category for the built world with its market-leading platform that transforms any physical space into an accurate and immersive digital twin. Today, many industries leverage Matterport’s digital twins and spatial data insights to fundamentally change the way business is done. Real estate agents gain a deeper understanding of every property that gets digitized and gain the ability to see what is most important to thousands of prospective buyers. Retailers can digitize multiple stores at any point in time to track fixed assets and inventory. Developers and property owners can use Matterport to document every stage of construction and create a robust digital system of record over the entire lifecycle of the building. Matterport’s rapidly expanding developer platform makes it easy for partners and developers to create powerful new tools and draw new property insights, fueling industry-wide innovation that makes every space more valuable, accessible and useful. ... ' 

Matterport for Creating 3D Virtual Tours

Had mentioned I was looking at simplified Lidar Solutions.  Here just mentioner to me:  Matterport. Below shows some of the technology supported.  Examining this further.

3D virtual tours can take your business to a new dimension

Whether you want to give buyers the feeling of being in a new home, help guests start picturing their stay, or showcase the wonders of your venue to event planners and patrons - Matterport 3D virtual tours can help you do more business, faster.

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. 3D virtual tours can help you create better experiences, happier customers, and more revenue. What's more, you can start today for free with no previous photography experience by opening a free account and using your iPhone (or iPad) to capture your first space.  Get a FREE demo now and see it for yourself!   .... 

As well as creating incredible, accurate 3D virtual tours of buildings and spaces, Matterport's software is packed with great features to help you create amazing additional assets and share your tours with the world.

Share easily on social media sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube

Publish to Google Street View, VRBO, and Realtor.com

Create detailed floor plans that give your customers the bird's eye view

Automatically generate guided tours to walk your customers through the highlights

Create 4k print-quality photos [with the Pro2 Camera]

Measure your space

Add Mattertags™  ....