Matterport, Inc., the space data company leading the digital transformation of the building industry, announced that its hundreds of thousands of customers around the world have brought five million buildings and spaces online through its market-leading platform, in order to be able to access, manage and use them more efficiently.
Almost 1,5 billion square meters, more than five times the number of buildings in New York City, have been turned into Matterport digital twins - whether homes, offices, schools, factories, stores, hotels, apartments, vacation rentals, museums, galleries, pleasure boats and even airplanes. Digital involvement continues to grow, with more than 2 billion views of digital twins from around the world. The number of Matterport digital twins has more than doubled since May 2020, fueled by a series of innovations and solutions that are more accessible to all, including the free app Matterport for iPhone.
Matterport enables anyone to quickly and easily capture a physical space and transform it into a precise and immersive digital twin, opening a new way for businesses and other users to manage their spaces, collaborate virtually with colleagues and interact with customers. without moving. Thanks to Matterport:
- Architecture, engineering and construction offices such as Burns & McDonnell reduce the duration of their projects by several months by speeding up decision-making and project management.
- Big brands like Herman Miller create immersive experiences that engage customers and increase sales.
- Residential real estate companies like Engel & Volkers provide virtual access to all of their listings. In a recent study with Redfin, 78% of buyers chose to visit properties with 3D tours, and 71% said they could purchase a property without seeing it in person.
- Amazing museums like the Handel & Hendrix in London or historical sites like the spectacular tomb of pharaoh Ramses VI in Egypt allow visitors from all over the world to explore them at any time and at their own pace, with an impressive level of precision and detail.
- Schools like the Van Maerlant offer students and parents a virtual way to understand how the school is preparing for the post-COVID reopening, reassuring and comforting those concerned.
- Companies in charge of the work such as ATI and Belfor can estimate a disaster four times faster with a highly faithful digital twin, giving precise dimensions of the damaged space.
- International commercial real estate companies like Savills not only to present assets in a more efficient way, they also help their clients to arrange and optimize them for the return to work perspective. Office spaces like the Freedom Tower in New York can be set up virtually while respecting the rules of social distancing.
"The Matterport digital twins are fascinating and facilitate exchanges between stakeholders from different regions," says Patrick McGrath, CIO at Savills. “Even when everyone is in the same area, Matterport cuts down on the time it takes to understand a property - from days and multiple site visits to just a few hours over the phone. " McGrath adds that these benefits will not end with the pandemic, Savills will continue to use Matterport in different ways to serve its customers. “In our current environment, I don't see how an advisor could have an effective real estate exchange without Matterport. "
“Matterport is fundamentally changing the way we think about the buildings and spaces in which we live, work and play, turning them into data. Digitizing a space opens up new ways to be interested in it, access it, manage it and use it, even if it is on the other side of the world, ” says RJ Pittman, CEO of Matterport. “Real estate, in all its forms, is the largest catalog of assets in the world, with an estimated value of $ 230 trillion, but it still remains largely offline. Today's milestone is a major step forward that reflects the work carried out over the past ten years. Digitizing buildings with our speed and precision requires unprecedented science and data to be successful. We are driven by the great innovations that lie ahead and by the tremendous scale of the offline world, of which we are only scratching the surface. This could be the greatest opportunity of the next ten years. "
With over two billion virtual views of digital twins and tens of millions of digital measurements performed to date, adoption of Matterport technologies continues to grow worldwide. Homeowners can check whether the new furniture is suitable before purchasing it, and planners can collaborate online to rearrange the space before a safe return to work or school, for example. Travel times and costs are reduced and practical comfort enhanced with Matterport's powerful tools for visualizing, measuring, personalizing, arranging space, and collaborating - all accessible online from any device, anywhere in the world .
Last week, the Matterport Capture app became available for billion Android users in 175 countries, thus significantly increasing the market reach of Matterport. Now, 85% more of the world's smartphone fleet can connect their devices to the Matterport Pro2 camera and the many 360 cameras from Ricoh and Insta360. In addition, the company announced that it has extended the capabilities of Matterport Capture Services ™, an online services platform that offers a convenient turnkey solution for businesses that need tens of thousands of real estate assets to be digitized simultaneously and very quickly globally. All these innovations further accelerate Matterport's expansion around the world and confirm the company in its place as a major supplier of 3D capture solutions.