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Matterport revolutionizes how businesses interact with physical spaces through digital twin technology. The platform delivers four key benefits:

  • Customer Engagement: Immersive 3D experiences boost engagement by up to 300%. This leads to higher conversion rates.
  • Documentation: Comprehensive capture of 3D tour, photos, and spatial data on a single platform.
  • Collaboration: Efficiency gains through seamless virtual teamwork.
  • Sustainability: Reduced CO₂ emissions via digital processes.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, Matterport stands as the premier entry point into digital twin technology, offering businesses across all sectors an intuitive, standardized platform that distinguishes itself from more complex solutions like NVIDIA Omniverse, AWS IoT Twinmaker or Siemens Xcelerator.

As a globally recognized solution, Matterport delivers precise LiDAR scans (0.5cm accuracy) and a proprietary WebVR-3D-Tour-Technology that immediately enhances customer engagement, documentation, and cross-team collaboration without technical barriers.

Successful implementations in various industries demonstrate that Matterport provides the ideal foundation upon which more sophisticated and specialized digital twin solutions — like IoT-powered smart building analytics with the AWS IoT Twinmaker integration — can seamlessly build and expand.

 

Enhanced Customer Engagement Through Immersive Experiences

Key Benefit: Increased conversion rates and deeper customer engagement through interactive 3D experiences.

Matterport revolutionizes how businesses interact with physical spaces through its digital twin technology. The platform transforms customer engagement by offering interactive 3D experiences that provide a deeper understanding of spaces, increasing viewer engagement by up to 300%.

These immersive virtual tours create meaningful connections between audiences and physical environments, fostering trust and driving conversion in ways traditional media simply cannot achieve.

Fig. 1 Matterport drives Conversions

The intuitive navigation allows users to explore spaces from any angle, creating an emotional connection and immediate spatial understanding that translates directly into business outcomes.

  • Real Estate: Achieve 20-30% faster transactions and higher sale prices through virtual property tours that allow potential buyers to explore properties thoroughly before physical visits....
  • Construction Projects: Build client trust and accelerate decisions through virtual walkthroughs that demonstrate progress and quality at each stage.
  • Facilities Management: Present maintenance plans visually to stakeholders, creating shared understanding that speeds approval processes and improves implementation outcomes.
  • Event Venues: Offer clients the ability to explore layouts virtually, reducing the need for physical site visits while providing comprehensive spatial understanding for planning purposes.
  • Exhibitors: Document, digitally multiply, and reach broader audiences through immersive virtual experiences.
  • Cultural Institutions: Expand global reach with virtual tours, attracting millions of online visitors who might never have the opportunity to visit in person.
  • Retail: Boost sales by 15%, with customers spending three times longer interacting with virtual showrooms compared to traditional photography, leading to deeper product engagement and higher conversion rates.
  • Industrial Facilities: Showcase sensitive production areas virtually without compromising security protocols, allowing potential clients and partners to understand capabilities without disrupting operations.

Matterport enhances these customer engagement opportunities with additional features that drive conversion:

  • Interactive Mattertags: Embed videos, documents, or links directly into tours, creating contextual touchpoints that guide viewers through narratives that support business objectives.
  • High-resolution HDR panoramas: Deliver stunning visuals across all devices, ensuring consistent quality regardless of how customers access the experience.
  • Shareable links: Facilitate easy distribution to stakeholders, expanding reach while maintaining the immersive quality that distinguishes Matterport from traditional media.
  • Views and Layers: Enable more targeted information delivery and filtering capabilities for customized user experiences based on specific needs and interests. With the ability to create up to 10 custom Views from the same base digital twin, teams can tailor information specifically for different audiences while maintaining a single source of truth. Each View delivers a customized experience with its own start position, guided tour, visible tags, notes and room labels, transforming how businesses segment and personalize spatial information.

What makes Matterport particularly powerful is its accessibility and ease of use for staff at all technical levels. The platform is designed with intuitive interfaces that make capturing, editing, and sharing digital twins enjoyable rather than burdensome. Companies report that new team members can become proficient with basic Matterport functionality within hours, allowing businesses to quickly scale their digital twin implementation without extensive training periods. This approachability makes Matterport an ideal choice for organizations seeking to democratize digital twin technology across departments while maintaining standardized quality.

Fig. 2 Matterport is one of the most accessible and easy to use Digital Twin Platforms

 

Comprehensive Documentation With Automated Intelligence

Key Benefit: Complete digital capture of spaces with automated measurement tools.

Matterport transforms spatial documentation by creating a single authoritative source of truth for physical environments. The platform combines multiple data types into one comprehensive ecosystem, eliminating the fragmentation that typically plagues spatial information management. Every scan generates a complete digital record that serves as both current documentation and historical reference, providing value that extends far beyond simple visualization. This approach to documentation represents a paradigm shift from traditional methods, offering unprecedented accuracy, accessibility, and integration capabilities.

  • 3D Tours: Navigable immersive walkthroughs for virtual exploration from any device at any time.
  • Snapshots: High-resolution HDR photos that provide detailed visual records for marketing, insurance, or reference purposes.
  • Media: 2D Floorplans, interactive touchpoint media, flythrough animations with storytelling and videos for comprehensive marketing and communication needs....
  • Spatial Data: Automatic calculations of square footage, wall dimensions, and ceiling heights with remarkable precision, eliminating manual measurement errors and speeding up information flow.
  • Point Clouds: Exportable data for seamless integration with professional CAD/BIM systems, creating workflow continuity across platforms.

Industry-specific applications of Matterport's documentation capabilities deliver measurable advantages across sectors:

  • Real Estate: Accelerate listing processes with precise property measurements and comprehensive visual assets that enhance marketing effectiveness.
  • Construction Projects: Document progress at every stage with accurate spatial data and visual records, creating accountability and reducing disputes.
  • Facility Management: Streamline planning with centralized spatial records that provide immediate access to critical information during emergencies or renovations.
  • Event Venues: Deliver marketing-ready virtual tours within hours of capture, targeted to specific use cases or customers with Matterport Views enabling immediate promotional use and faster booking conversions.
  • Cultural Institutions: Archive exhibitions digitally for future reference, marketing, or educational purposes, preserving ephemeral installations permanently.
  • Industrial Facilities: Reduce equipment downtime through precise documentation of layouts and infrastructure, enabling faster maintenance and modifications.

The centralized "single source of truth" approach provides consistent benefits across all these applications. By maintaining all spatial data in one accessible platform, Matterport eliminates version control issues that plague traditional documentation methods. Immediate availability across devices ensures that stakeholders always have access to current information regardless of location. Perhaps most importantly, the documentation retains long-term value for training, onboarding, or marketing purposes long after the initial capture, creating an enduring digital asset that continues to deliver returns on investment.

Fig. 3 Accessible and easy to use documentation in the Matterport cloud

 

Seamless Remote Collaboration Across Stakeholders

Key Benefit: Efficiency gains through virtual teamwork in a shared digital context.

Matterport enables efficient collaboration by creating a shared virtual environment accessible to all stakeholders regardless of physical location. The platform breaks down geographical barriers that traditionally impede project coordination, allowing teams to work together in a common digital context that provides spatial clarity impossible to achieve through conventional documentation. This capability has become increasingly valuable as organizations embrace remote and hybrid work models, ensuring spatial understanding remains consistent across distributed teams. The result is faster decision-making, reduced miscommunication, and improved project outcomes.

Organizations implementing Matterport for collaboration report significant efficiency gains across key metrics:

  • Travel Reduction: 50% cost savings on travel and site visits while maintaining effective oversight.
  • Project Acceleration: 30% faster project completion through improved coordination.
  • Decision Efficiency: 20% reduction in decision-making time through clear visual communication.

Different industries leverage Matterport's collaboration tools in ways that address their specific challenges:

  • Construction Projects: Architects, engineers, contractors, and clients collaborate effectively without requiring physical presence on-site, reducing coordination delays and travel costs.
  • Event Venues: Teams utilize virtual staging capabilities to plan layouts collaboratively in real-time, testing different configurations virtually before committing resources to physical setup.
  • Industrial Facilities: Optimize workflows remotely using precise spatial data, allowing specialists to contribute expertise without disrupting operations.
  • Retail Spaces: Plan merchandising strategies collaboratively with global brand teams ensuring consistent implementation while accommodating local requirements.

Matterport's collaboration tools enhance these industry-specific applications with powerful features designed for team productivity.

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Fig. 4 Matterport lets users collaborate with Notes and Views in the same 3D space

Notes and Views functionality streamlines communication by allowing team members to save and share specific perspectives with annotations, eliminating the confusion of describing spatial relationships verbally. Integration with platforms like Procore and Autodesk creates workflow continuity that preserves the context of decisions as projects move through different stages of development. The new integration with AWS IoT Twinmaker further extends these capabilities, enabling more sophisticated IoT data analysis and management.

The extended capabilities with MPSkin and Simlab significantly enhance Matterport's core functionality, allowing for interactive overlays, dynamic information displays, and specialized facility management features that transform static digital twins into intelligent, interactive environments. These capabilities transform collaboration from a necessary process into a strategic advantage that accelerates project timelines while improving quality outcomes.

What truly sets Matterport apart is how fun and accessible it is for teams to learn and use. The platform's intuitive design means staff can become proficient quickly, often mastering basic functionality in a single training session. Organizations implementing Matterport report high levels of employee engagement and adoption, with team members frequently discovering creative new applications for digital twins within their workflows. This natural learning curve makes Matterport an ideal foundation for digital transformation initiatives, as it builds confidence and enthusiasm for more advanced digital twin applications among staff at all levels.


Sustainability and ESG Benefits

Key Benefit: Significant environmental impact reduction through digitized processes.

Matterport supports businesses in achieving critical sustainability goals through digital transformation of physical-space interactions. The platform enables significant reductions in carbon emissions by minimizing unnecessary travel while maximizing information sharing and collaboration effectiveness.

Customer implementation of Matterport technology yields measurable environmental benefits. Digital twins reduce CO₂ emissions by 24% per project compared to traditional methods, equivalent to eliminating approximately 715 kilometers of car travel. Organizations report 80% decrease in material waste during preservation projects through more precise planning and execution based on digital twins. Energy consumption in facility management decreases by approximately 35% when Matterport models guide optimization efforts.

Fig. 5 Matterport releases an annual ESG report - the latest report can be downloaded here

 

The integration of Matterport with specialized sustainability solutions creates powerful environmental impacts. Studies from independent carbon accounting experts demonstrate how digital twins reduce site visits and physical samples while increasing sales conversion by creating immersive experiences that drive business outcomes.


Matterport: The Perfect First Step on the Digital Twin Journey

Key Takeaway: Simple entry point to digital transformation with immediate business benefits.

Matterport delivers three fundamental transformations across industries seeking to leverage digital twins for business advantage. The platform creates immersive customer engagement experiences that drive conversions and revenue growth. It provides comprehensive documentation that centralizes spatial data for immediate operational use and long-term reference value. Perhaps most importantly, Matterport enables seamless collaboration that enhances efficiency while reducing costs.

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Beyond these primary benefits, Matterport's sustainability advantages align business operation with environmental responsibility. As digital transformation continues to reshape business processes across sectors, Matterport provides an accessible entry point that delivers immediate returns while establishing a foundation for more advanced digital twin applications.

The growing ecosystem of specialized digital twin solutions builds upon Matterport's foundation, extending capabilities while maintaining the platform's core accessibility. Partnerships with solutions like SIMLAB enable advanced facility management applications, while integrations with IoT platforms like AWS IoT Twinmaker enable smart building analytics and industrial applications that further optimize operations.

Fig. 6 Matterport integrates with AWS IoT Twinmaker

At the heart of successful implementation is Matterport's commitment to accessibility—not just in terms of compliance with standards like WCAG, but in how easily teams adopt and embrace the technology. The platform's Views, Layers, and Users management system serves as the foundation for scalable digital twin solutions that grow with your business needs. As the cornerstone of an effective digital transformation strategy, Matterport's approachable nature makes it the perfect starting point for organizations beginning their "Journey for 100" and beyond, establishing digital twins as fundamental business assets rather than technical novelties.


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