In today’s fast-paced industrial real estate landscape, the use of 3D Matterport Virtual Tours is revolutionizing the way building owners, operators, and managers conduct their operations. Especially with warehouse and office real estate, these cutting-edge tours offer three pivotal benefits that enhance the industry’s efficiency and convenience: In this blog post, we dive straight into them using one of our latest warehouse virtual tours we created for Sarah Vanberbelt of Paradigm Commercial Properties and Nick Hannah at Lennard Commercial Realty.

Step Inside A Warehouse Virtual Tour

Empowering Building Owners:

A 3D Matterport Tour provides building owners with a digital snapshot of their property’s existing conditions before occupancy. This invaluable resource not only aids in lease negotiations but also equips lessees with a clear vision of how to return the building to its base condition at the end of their lease. It streamlines the leasing process, reduces disputes, and fosters a more collaborative relationship between owners and tenants.

Efficiency for Building Operators:

Building operators can effortlessly share digital copies of their facilities with key project stakeholders, including engineers and contractors. These tours transcend geographical and physical boundaries, enabling remote access to multiple facilities at any time. The result? Faster decision-making, more streamlined maintenance, and seamless project coordination.

Enhanced Property Management:

Property managers gain a powerful tool in their arsenal, allowing them to showcase properties to potential tenants even when in-person viewings are challenging. This is especially valuable for national occupiers and companies with a widespread presence. 3D Matterport Tours provide a cost-effective, immersive, and convenient way to explore and digitally share properties, ultimately attracting more tenants and optimizing occupancy rates.

Every Warehouse Deserves a Virtual Tour

The uses of 3D Matterport Tours for warehouses benefit every party involved in the successful acquisition, stabilization, and disposition of any building. That’s why it’s worthwhile, whether it’s a 5,000 square foot contractor garage unit or a 500,000 square foot logistics center. For lenders and appraisers, they are able to have multiple inspections of the real asset without follow-up site visits. The same goes for developers and landlords looking at a property. Building operators are better able to put projects out for tender by conducting virtual site showings or using the virtual tours to refer locations and job scopes.

In the competitive world of industrial real estate, 3D Matterport Virtual Tours are a game-changer. With benefits spanning from owner-tenant relationships to streamlined operations, property management, and wider industry use, they are a must-have technology for any warehouse or industrial facility.

For our example property, we didn’t stop at just the 3D Matterport Tour. We utilized our photography and aerial imaging services to create a portfolio of captivating images that emphasize the warehouse’s size, layout, and potential. These images serve as powerful tools to attract prospective buyers and investors, providing a visual narrative that complements the immersive 3D experience.

Ontario’s Leading 3D Virtual Tour Provider

Contact us today to explore how 3D Matterport Tours can help your industrial real estate business find new efficacies and have a competitive advantage over other properties and operations. We’re always excited to hear from landlords, building operators, facility management, leasing teams, and developers. We’ve scanned warehouses in the GTA, Montreal-Laval, Ottawa, Cornwall, and Kingston.

If you’re not in Eastern Ontario, you may not know that the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa benefits the mental, social, and physical wellbeing of children in Eastern Ontario. The CHEO Foundation achieves this objective by raising, managing, and distributing funds collected throughout several fundraising initiatives during the year, the most popular of which is the annual Dream of a Lifetime Lottery. It offers the opportunity to win more than $4.7 million in prizes including a CHEO Dream Home built by Minto Communities Ottawa alongside cars, cash, and leisure trips.

If you want to support the Ottawa community and have the chance to win a dream home in Ottawa, the CHEO Lifetime Lottery is an annual fundraiser to consider. All you have to do is buy your lottery tickets and cross your fingers! The best part is even if you don’t win the lottery, all proceeds collected are used to fund the Children’s Hospital in Eastern Ontario. Your money goes to support the kids at CHEO!

The 2023 CHEO Dream Home is located at the south foothills of Manotick and is aptly named The Equestrian. The design, by Tanya Collins Design, exudes a moody British equestrian theme with a color palette of camel, navy, dark green, and rich burgundy. The 4,383-square-foot floor plan, based on Minto’s Juneberry model design with a custom interior design, is located in Minto’s Mahogany community. The lottery home design is the last for Tanya Collins, who has been designing CHEO Dream Homes on behalf of Minto for six years and is ready to give up the reigns to new Ottawa interior design talent.

The home offers a main-floor office, an open-concept kitchen, three full bathrooms, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a media room, and a private primary suite deck. Closing up the envelope is an exterior with ironstone grey siding and black windows.

The rich color scheme continues throughout the house, with the primary bedroom featuring a king-size leather bed and an opulent ensuite. An outdoor kitchen perfect for Summer evening entertaining includes a pergola made of Douglas fir with louvred cedar slats.

Finally, the garage accommodates an accessible ramp for lottery visitors and includes tools from Home Depot.

The 2023 Minto Dream Home is located at 364 Flare Grove in Manotick and is open to visit Tuesdays to Fridays between 12PM to 8PM and Saturday to Sunday from 10AM to 6PM. It is open for public viewing until December 15, and tickets are available online, by phone, or in person at the home.

We Support Our Communities With 3D Virtual Tours

Through Random Scans Of Kindness, we support many Ontario Not-For-Profits with digital marketing and facility management tools. If your organization is in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to see how we can help enable a virtual tour to support your cause.

All For A Good Cause: Habitat For Humanity Greater Ottawa

Not only are we helping Ottawa residents see inside their neighbours’ latest home renovations, but the event also serves a much greater purpose. By purchasing event tickets, you’re not only gaining exclusive access to these remarkable virtual tours but also making a significant contribution to Habitat For Humanity Greater Ottawa, a non-profit organization that relies on generous donations to support its vital programs.

Every ticket sold brings us one step closer to helping families in our community achieve their dreams of safe and affordable housing. Participation in this event goes beyond the reno tour – it extends a helping hand to those in need and strengthens the bonds of our community.

Thank you for joining us on this exciting journey of discovery, innovation, and philanthropy. Together, we’re making Ottawa an even better place to call home.

We believe in the power of technology to make a difference, and that’s why we’re proud to include these 3D Tours in our annual ‘Random Scans Of Kindness’ program. Each year, we donate a portion of our 3D tour capture services to non-profit organizations. This initiative not only provides non-profits with a powerful tool to showcase their spaces but also helps them in marketing their missions and fundraising efforts. If you’re part of a non-profit or have an idea for a space that could benefit from a virtual tour, we encourage you to reach out to us. It’s our way of giving back and helping those who make our community stronger. Together, we can continue to share stories, showcase spaces, and support the causes that matter most.

We would like to shine a spotlight on Quinns Pointe By Minto Communities in Barrhaven!

Experience the best suburban Ottawa has to offer at Quinn’s Pointe, located in the thriving community of Stonebridge between Barrhaven and Manotick in Ottawa. Surrounded by nature and convenient to top-rated schools, highway 416, public transportation, and recreational centers, Quinn’s Pointe is the perfect place for young families and working professionals. Just a short 25-30 minute drive from downtown Ottawa, the suburb has always had the Riocan plazas as an anchor for grocery stores, restaurants, Cineplex movie theater, and other retail such as Eyes of Barrhaven. But Barrhaven continues to grow with the Regional Group Citigate area and the arrival of major retailers like Costco, Amazon, and car dealerships closer to the highway. Quinn’s Pointe is also home to the Minto Recreation Complex, so those 6 am ice hockey practices are just minutes away.

Take a Look Inside Quinn’s Pointe

Highlighted below are three of the Quinn Point model homes, including the 36’ Single Family Clairmont,  the 30’ Single Family Kinghurst model, and the 43’ Single Family Quinton home. 

Step inside and experience these airy, spacious, and beautifully modern homes by Minto Communities Ottawa via our 3D Virtual tours.

Model Home Virtual Tour Specialists

With a virtual tour, homebuyers can do their own walk-throughs of properties or model homes from anywhere, and at any time, generating higher engagement and new home sales leads. Virtual tours allow buyers and sellers to come together online at a time that is mutually beneficial.

Time constraints, crowds, and frustrations are taken out of the equation, which adds up to a smoother and less stressful process. Because virtual tours, photographs, aerial photography, floor plans, and other measurements are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, buyers can examine the details, compare properties, and share the information with family, friends, and realtors at their convenience. Virtual Tours don’t drive away model home sales appointments either, what they do is prequalify specific home models for a homebuyer and new home consultant to visit.
We help homebuilders attract more qualified prospects by giving viewers the most complete and accurate representation of the property, filtering unqualified and uninterested leads, and attracting those that are genuinely interested and financially qualified.

Point3D Commercial Imaging is a contributing member of the Ontario Home Builders’ Association. If you are a builder and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to begin capturing model home virtual tours.

What is a Virtual Open House?

A virtual open house is an immersive online tour of a property, especially attractive to the first round of clients who would otherwise visit in person. An excellent feature used to show an agent’s buyers around a property from the comfort of their own home virtual tours are more than just a feature; they are revolutionizing the home-buying business. Take it from the Ottawa homebuilders eQ Homes and Richcraft Homes, who both integrate model home virtual tours in their marketing strategy.

Benefits of Virtual Tours for Real Estate Buyers

• The 24/7 open house: Unlike traditional showings which require tedious scheduling and time constraints, virtual tours are “hosted” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, giving visitors the opportunity to take their time exploring every corner of every room at their leisure and return to take a second (or third) look without the need to schedule an appointment.
• See a property from anywhere: Because virtual tours are worldwide, clients who may have been able to travel to view the listing before having the opportunity to look at properties regardless of the distance, expanding the customer base on a global level.
• Learn the layout better: Virtual tours are more detailed and easier to visualize than just photos and floor plans. Adding tours of the neighborhood, schools, and town centers, prospective buyers can gain a great insight into the area without ever stepping foot on the grounds.
• Prospective buyers can take their time: Clients can spend more time in the rooms and areas that matter to them. If someone is especially interested in closet space, they can take time to explore every storage space in the home. Those who want to pay particular attention to the kitchen, yard, bathrooms, or office space can take their time to “walk through” the spaces that matter most to them without feeling rushed or crowded.

Benefits of Virtual Tours for Real Estate Agents

• More visitors can view the space at once: Because virtual visitors don’t take up any space in the tour, the capacity is limitless.
• Faster Deal Cycle: Present the complete information about a property in an immersive, online format that shortens your deal cycle by providing prospects with everything they need to close.
• More Qualified Prospects: Attract more qualified prospects by giving viewers the most complete representation of your property which cuts down unnecessary site visits.
• Save time, money, and a lot of hassle:  Intended to be the first viewing, the purpose is not just to reduce in-person viewings, but to ensure that the second physical viewings are qualified. By streamlining the time spent searching and narrowing down properties to view, buyers will only plan viewings for those in which they are most interested. Because an agent can spend as much as eight hours with clients on first-time viewings, virtual tours are a more efficient marketing tool. 
• Immersive experience: By offering an extra dimension and immersive experience, virtual tours enhance the value of online hosting substantially, helping to set the agency apart from the competition. Because 80% of first viewings don’t lead to a second, agents can eliminate wasting time on clients that have little or no intention of purchasing.  
• Accessible to buyers with physical limitations: Virtual tours make showings to prospective buyers with restricted mobility or other issues that make it difficult to view properties in person possible. Visiting numerous properties  is a time-consuming and draining process for anyone, but for those with disabilities and special needs, it’s just that much harder.  Agents can provide all prospective buyers with an immersive experience regardless of their limitations.  
• Show properties in their best light: It’s always sunny in the virtual world. Because 60% of viewings are done on evenings and weekends,  3D Virtual Tours have the ability to change the time of day making it easier for agents to show the home’s interior and exterior in daylight, no matter what time of day it really is. 
• Editing Tools Highlight Property’s Best Features: Virtual technology also makes it possible to portray the property in its very best light, in springtime, for example,  even in the dead of winter. Virtual gardens, lawns, pools, and other exterior features can be virtually optimized as well. Grass made green, pools blue and clear, and gardens filled with colorful spring flowers.
• Less disruptive to sellers’ lives: One of the hardest parts of showing homes to prospects is encouraging sellers to keep the house clean and tidy without being a thorn in their side. This can be especially difficult for sellers with small kids and pets or who work from home. With pre-recorded virtual tours, sellers never have to worry about keeping the property constantly neat and tidy or having their family or work life disturbed. 
• Elevate a property’s aesthetic appeal with virtual staging: Virtual staging: Virtual staging can add, change,  or upgrade interior design elements to 3D tours and images, in order to make a property, more aesthetically pleasing or easily understood by a buyer. Virtual staging and interior design can be personalized to fit the age or style of the prospective buyer.

Like many other industries that pivoted during the pandemic, the real estate market has changed forever and virtual tours are a huge part of that change. Most of our clients are now including a 3D Tour with every listing because it helps qualify buyers and quickens closing the real estate sale. As a buyers agent, having a digital twin of multiple exclusive listings gives clients the freedom to tour many homes as many times as they want, all from the quiet and convenience of their own home or office.

Restaurant Virtual Tours could be the Food Industry’s Secret Ingredient for Success

They say we eat with our eyes first, and when it comes to visually engaging and sharing content with restaurant customers, 3D virtual tours speak louder than words. 

One of the pandemic’s most highly impacted industries, Covid-19 altered the restaurant game forever. Restaurants needed to quickly pivot from in-person dining to take-out/online operations in the blink of an eye. What was once a novel exception, delivery began ruling the food game.

Restaurants that once competed for in-person clientele, today’s kitchens serve delivery, take-out, dine-in, event venue rentals, and private events all at once. And with new restaurant business models bolstered by online apps like Uber Eats and Skip The Dishes, ghost kitchens are beginning to flood the market. Competition among restaurateurs is fiercer than ever.

With lockdowns a thing of the past, the restaurant industry is experiencing pent-up demand for unique and memorable food experiences. Whether you own a trendy street fooderie or an established upscale establishment, to meet the demands of today’s food consumer,  restaurants today require innovative, intelligent, and strategic marketing to whet their customer’s appetites. 

No longer tempted only by directly mailed menus or old-fashioned newspaper ads, today’s food fans expect more information, insight, and transparency before opening their wallets and making a reservation.

As more restaurants begin to use traditional video in their marketing efforts, it’s important for businesses to stand out for customers to take notice.

That’s where Restaurant Virtual Tours come into play.

Restaurants are using 3D Tours to introduce their ambiance and menu to consumers for the first time online, turning impressed first impressions into booked tables.

Beyond this, restaurant patrons appreciate being able to see the “best” seats in the house when making reservations. 

Restaurant owners and managers are using 3D Tours to market their restaurants to both corporate and private party planners looking to rent a space or the entire restaurant for their events.

To rise above the internet noise, restaurants must find creative ways to engage with their customer base and attract new business.  The next wave in the food service marketing game is digital and 3D Virtual Tours are a secret ingredient in a successful restaurant’s recipe box.

As more restaurants begin to use traditional video in their marketing efforts,  it’s important for businesses to stand out for customers to take notice.

Changing the way we see restaurants

Virtual Tours for restaurants are one of the answers to the food service industry’s call for something more. Using virtual tour technology, offering a 360-degree, panoramic view, we are helping meet the ever-evolving needs of restaurants, ghost kitchens, and food retail establishments with onboarding and digital marketing with immersive virtual tours. Customers spend 5 to 10 times more on websites with virtual tours.

With restaurant virtual tours on websites, shared on social media channels, and recorded to create video content, they’re offering a wide range of marketing applications and facility management uses for restaurant owners.

Savvy restaurateurs are using 3D Tours to showcase their event venue spaces, providing corporate meeting planners with an immersive preview of their restaurants’ event space. Busy, out-of-town executives that are strapped for time are finding the convenience of touring a space without having to leave their office highly beneficial, making 3D Tours an essential marketing tool for this potential customer base.

Caterers, large groups, and families looking for event venues to hold weddings, bridal showers, birthday parties, reunions, bar mitzvahs, etc. are more likely to click on a restaurant’s event space website that features a 3D Virtual Tour, which offers a view of the space that traditional video or still photography cannot.

We also have food court establishments using 3D Tours to highlight their ambiance, offering a striking first impression online, and enticing first-time customers to visit their favourite restaurants.

And with the ability to be embedded with multi-media tags filled with videos, photos, and links, the uses can be further expanded for facility management, onboarding, training, and other operational purposes.  

An essential tool used to illustrate menu items, introduce cooking techniques, explain inventory and inspection procedures, aid in customer service training, and assist with upselling techniques, virtual tours offer limitless opportunities to run an efficient business and boost a restaurant’s bottom line.

With sustainability, safety, and health being key decision factors at the top of consumers’ minds these days, folks want to know more about the brands they choose to patronize. 

To that end, studies show that the public wants to see more visual content from local businesses because it gives them a behind-the-scenes view and makes the establishments seem more trustworthy and transparent. Customers aged 18 to 34 are 130% more likely to book a table at restaurants with virtual tours.

This holds especially true for restaurants, giving customers upfront and personal views of the food they’ll be eating and the space they’ll be dining in. 

Leveraging the power of 3D Virtual Tour marketing for your restaurant will give you a better shot at attracting hungry diners by enticing customers with realistic mouth-watering images that can’t be captured with traditional video or still photography. It also gives customers a sneak peek into the restaurant’s workings behind the scenes.

Spices up your social presence

Foodies today love to share every aspect of their palate-pleasing experiences. Whether it’s a perfect finger-licking chicken wing added to an Instagram story or a flaky croissant and steamy latte uploaded to their Twitter feed to ensure your restaurant stands out, you need to rise above the loud social media noise.  

Just about anyone with a smartphone can create videos and post them on social media. To increase engagement, breed brand loyalty, and gain followers, matterport virtual tours will capture the attention of your prospective customers and excite your base.

Ridge Rock Brewing Co. in Carp, ON uses Restaurant Virtual Tours on its website to show its locations, tell its rich history story, highlight its chef’s personal style, and announce new menu items or upcoming events. 

Paints a vibrant picture 

There are few businesses that rely more on physical ambiance and environment than restaurants. It can be a painstaking task to get the look and feel of your restaurant’s interior and exterior with basic images or even traditional video. 

Virtual tours allow customers to get a more realistic feel of your restaurant. The ability to adjust the mood with lighting and set a virtual table helps to entice customers more vividly than any other medium. We helped Hyde & Seek, a new hip speakeasy in downtown Ottawa by showcasing their new fresh digs online and enabling online bookings with Tablz.

Faster employee training

As the labor shortage continues to loom large, restaurants and facility management companies are having a difficult time hiring and retaining qualified staff. Using virtual tours in hiring sites, businesses can effectively market themselves to the most qualified candidates.  New or visiting employees can access your store from their own computer to quickly understand the flow of the space and overall atmosphere without the hassle of an onsite visit. 

Restaurant operators for the likes of Starbucks love using 3D Virtual Tours to understand what equipment is installed at what location. They also get an inside view of the entire restaurant, helping them coordinate new marketing campaigns and construction projects. Helping new employees learn their way around means they can hit the ground running on their first day, speeding up the onboarding process tremendously.

Higher Google ranking

Professional Google Street View Trusted virtual tours can be paired with your restaurant’s Google maps and street view, which helps with SEO. If a prospective customer is conducting a near-me search for restaurants in a specific geographic area on Google, for example, multiple results will be displayed.

Not only will restaurants with virtual tours in place stand out, but the increased engagement and uptick in clicks will boost your SEO, moving your restaurant up in the ranks.

Highly cost-effective digital marketing

Not only are virtual tours more interactive than traditional video production with over twice the time spent on the page, but they are also surprisingly affordable. And because 41% of virtual restaurant tours result in an on-site visit, they are a highly cost-effective marketing tool.  Did you know 67% of people want more businesses to offer virtual tours?

Brand Showcasing

When Figaro Coffee House wanted to showcase its brand, featuring fine Arabica coffee beans from around the world, it knew it wanted to brew something that stood out from the competition.  That’s when they got in touch with Point3D to harness the power of virtual presence for their new flagship location in Ottawa, ON.

They had us create 3D Virtual Tours to highlight the company’s superior roasting tactics, giving customers a birdseye, behind-the-scenes view that captured the brand’s sophisticated style and high-end standards.

Promotes Corporate Events and Private Party Hosting

Matterport Tours has the ability to allow planners to view your space without having to take time from their busy schedules for a live visit. When customers search for catering venues, restaurants with virtual tours will attract more visitors and draw more business. This powerful showing and placemaking tool can be easily shared and viewed by any device with an internet connection.

To show its separate room styles, Live Real Factory had us create two 3D Virtual Tours, one for its Corporate event venue and another for Events. Having these 3D Tours as separate links helps management show the setting for more event venue space bookings than ever before.

Creates an immersive experience

With more and more restaurants adding video to their marketing strategy, 3D Virtual Tours give you a leg up on today’s crowded online marketplace. An immersive experience that lets customers “walk-in” to your restaurant with their phone or computer long before they ever actually walk through your front door, prospective guests can wander through your restaurant virtually, scroll through your online menu, and gain deeper insight into your business’s unique universe.

By adding additional elements to the 3D Showcase, Aiana Restaurant Collective leads their guests by the hand into a whole new world. Their virtual tour has multimedia labels to show menus, recipes, interviews with chefs, and customer testimonials.

We Are Restaurant Virtual Tour Specialists

Point3D Commercial Imaging is a contributing member of the Ottawa Board of Trade. We’ve worked with almost a hundred restaurants in Eastern Canada to help market their tables and event space options digitally. If you are a restaurant and are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours for restaurants in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team!

Virtual tours have the potential for saving businesses of all sizes time and money, increasing the effectiveness of training, and can be used again and again, freeing up your veteran staffers and management to do their work. 

Eliminating the risk factors, virtual tours have the advantage of bringing new hires up-close-and-personal with even the most dangerous machinery, allowing your current staff to continue working and your facility to keep operating, making the onboarding process less intrusive and a lot safer. As the workplace adjusts to this new normal, virtual tours are the next frontier in the training and onboarding process.

Start Virtual Training With Virtual Tours Today

3D Virtual tours offer a unique and engaging employee onboarding solution. If you are interested and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours for virtual training in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your scan.

With tremendous Automotive and Marketing industry experience, there is no better company in Ontario for capturing Dealership Virtual Tours than Point3D Commercial Imaging.

It used to be all about radio advertising, and catching drivers on their commute to and from work, but now most dealerships are opting to spend more and more of their marketing budget on digital marketing. It’s 2022. For some dealerships, traditional media like radio, TV, and Out-Of-Home advertising spend still dwarfs digital. But other dealership groups are using digital marketing to generate local brand awareness and brand recognition at a more competitive cost than blanketing the airwaves with dealership ads. As cars are seldom sold online and without a test drive, the digital strategy of these car dealerships is to attract consumers to their showrooms. Having the consumer confident about the showroom and ready to buy so that a salesperson can easily sell them is everything. Enter dealership virtual tours and take it from Evan McCosham, Marketing Manager at Tony Graham Automotive Group in Ottawa, ON.

“After deploying them on our contact page, the dealership virtual tours enticed online visitors to make appointments and to visit in person more often.”

– Evan McCosham, Marketing Manager, Tony Graham Automotive Group

We’re helping Tony Graham Automotive Group and many other dealerships in Ontario by creating dealership virtual tours with 3D Matterport every year to keep up with the latest-generation flagship models. Our service provides the most immersive and state-of-the-art dealership virtual tours. The 3D Matterport tour is embedded onto the dealer’s website, a Google Street View tour is added to Google Maps, the 3D Tour is shared in monthly dealership promotions (i.e. flyers, newsletters), and in other sales communications.

Using the 3D dealership virtual tour a user can freely preview the entire dealership, learn more about select models, and book a consultation or test drive. Using multimedia labels, the 3D Matterport tour embedded on the websites can add additional context, videos, and more. Our systems are integrated with the inventory stock of the dealership and can let a user know if a particulate model is available to be seen at the dealership. When users do visit in person they are ultimately more comfortable as they will recall the layout and car models in the dealers’ showrooms. This results in confident buyers more often for the car dealership sales staff to work with in person.

We love to capture 3D Matterport dealership tours. One of the unique features of our 3D Tours over other companies is the ability to show the interior of car models in 3D. We scan the vehicle interior allowing users to step right inside of the latest and greatest car models, see the dash, and really get a feel for the car. From the driver’s seat, users can see the sales brochure, watch a video, or even book a test drive.

Dealership Virtual Tours for Toyota

Tony Graham Automotive Group was the first dealership in Ottawa we had the pleasure of visualizing in 3D. Tony Graham has incredible brand power and their radio tagline from the 1990s is still unforgettable to any Ottawa native. In fact, our Founder Spencer MacPherson’s first car, a 1995 Toyota Corolla, was originally purchased at Tony Graham Toyota on Merivale. Since then, MacPherson’s belief in the Toyota promise of reliability and quality remains to this day. The company car is now a much updated 2019 Toyota Corolla. In this dealership virtual tour, the Toyota Corolla Hatchback and Toyota 86 were featured as brand-new models that year.

Dealership Virtual Tours for Lexus

After the first dealership virtual tour at Tony Graham Toyota, other car dealerships were looking at using 3D Tours on their website. Toyota’s more affluent or well-dressed cousin, Lexus, was looking for a way to bring more clients to their dealership With an email request to Point3D, they procured an estimate for a dealership virtual tour including in several vehicles. The cost is nominal and could be co-opted by the Lexus brand as a marketing initiative. This ultimately made it more feasible for a new 3D Tour to be created each year. We now visit annually when new-generation models are released to update the car dealership 3D Tour.

Dealership Virtual Tours for Kia

We don’t just service Ottawa, Ontario. When car dealer Kia Durham reached out looking for a car dealership virtual tour with Matterport, we sold them on our expertise in capturing the very best Matterport scans with cars in dealerships. We chose a day that space was closed to the public, cleaned, and with each vehicle specially placed to allow navigation and completed the 3D Virtual Tour capture. The Matterport scan took a full day to complete, with deliverables ready within that same week. To deploy the marketing collateral, the car dealer set up a “Shop From Home” sales funnel that incorporates the 3D Tour and embeddedd it on the contact page of their website.

We are Car Dealership Virtual Tour Experts

Capturing Dealership Virtual Tours with Matterport requires a comprehensive understanding of 3D virtual tours and the automotive industry. Trust the firm with experience in Matterport virtual tours for dealerships and car showrooms. If your Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal dealership is thinking about how a 3D Virtual Tour can help attract new customers and bring more people through your front door, contact Point3D to learn more about the service. If you want to know more, visit our About Us page.

Our community spotlight for the month of June 2022 focuses on the Mahogany Community By Minto Communities in Manotick with model home Matterport tours!

Currently in its third phase, the Minto Mahogany community in Manotick is a six-acre development just south of Manotick’s Main Street. As with other Minto developments Point3D created the 3D Matterport Tours that power Minto’s sales team to show model homes online. We are ecstatic with the latest release from the Ottawa homebuilder and can’t wait to show you their latest model home virtual tours.

Mahogany boasts an abundance of walkability features such as scenic green space, interwoven walking and biking pathways, the Mahogany Pond, and in the near-future, a neighbourhood school. In Mahogany, you are just steps away from charming Manotick Village, where you are met with to quaint shops, delicious dining options, scenic views, and family-friendly streetscapes.

Manotick, if you don’t know, is a quaint part of South Ottawa that runs along-side and around the Rideau River. The township was first settled in 1833 and one of its first entrepreneurs, Moss Kent Dickinson, constructed Watson’s Mill, Ottawa’s only still operating stone flour mill. In the old township of Manotick, you can still visit Dickinson House where the Dickinson family lived.

Being just south of Ottawa, you are still within very easy access to transit in or big box store shopping in Barrhaven.  Plus many of the dog parks, walking trails, and family restaurants that are most sought out between the two are in Manotick already. The area is still very quiet with a lot of farmland especially further south. While the community will be establishing a new school soon, both the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and Ottawa Catholic School Board already have elementary and secondary schools here.

For a quiet community that strikes the balance between amenity and nature, Mahogany can be called Home. How can you trust us? For one, Both founders of the Company grew up just North of Manotick in Barrhaven and have several pals that still live in Manotick today. The area is less more easygoing and has not been built up like other areas of Nepean until just recently with Barrhaven still expanding towards it.

Home To The 2021 CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Grand Prize!

As community members actively engaging and contributing to making the world a better place, Point3D has provided several ” Random Scans Of Kindness” in the township of Manotick. This involves donating our 3D Matterport services to community organizations and Not-For-Profit groups. We’ve already shared how we allowed both the Dickinson House and Watson’s Mill to welcome online visitors near and far. One of the other contributions we are really proud of is the donation of a 3D Virtual Tour for the CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery 2022. This lottery benefits the kids at CHEO by providing critical care and facility infrastructure. We invite you to take the virtual tour below if you haven’t seen the Grand Prize Minto Dream Home already.

Take a Look Inside The Model Home Matterport Tours

Below, find four of the most breathtaking home model virtual tours at Mahogany in Manotick. Use the 3D Matterport tours to take a peek inside what could be your next home. For more information on the model’s availability or price, visit Minto Communities Ottawa.

We Are OHBA 3D Virtual Tour Specialists

Point3D Commercial Imaging is a contributing member of the Ontario Home Builders’ Association. If you are a builder and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to begin capturing model home virtual tours.

At Point3D, we’re creating large Matterport scans at scale.

Since our beginnings, we at Point3D have been avid enthusiasts and proponents of everything 3D. The platform we trust the most for 3D Virtual Tours has always been Matterport. There just isn’t anything like it available on the marketplace and with the latest generation Matterport Pro2 camera (which we’ve named ours Matty), offers stunning 3D visuals with high-quality 36-degree views and is easily shared to any device with an internet connection. It’s not just single-family homes we’re scanning either. We’re pushing the envelope with Matterport scanning to create immersive 3D experiences for all sorts of creating and unique applications.

When scanning more complex or larger spaces with Matterport, our technicians use refined survey and laser scanning methodology to properly capture a space. While a single-family home may only take an hour with under 100 scans, some commercial and industrial real estate take days to scan with Matterport using over 1000 setups.

The biggest mistake new Matterport operators make is not introducing trusted survey methods into their workflow to make it easy for Matterport’s scan registration automation. A haphazard or “misaligned” scan will not impress their clients. Without proper scanning methodology, a square space can skew to one side inaccurately or be missing data.

We have experience with large Matterport scans in Canada and in the United States. We can scan using Matterport in complex and outdoor areas, and up to hundreds of thousands of square feet. Our team enjoys the challenge of scanning large open warehouses for space planning, entire buildings for commercial real estate transactions, and outdoor spaces for art/culture purposes.

Our Largest Matterport Scans

We’re proud to show some of the spectacular spaces we’ve had the opprtunity to visit and capture with Matterport 3D cameras. The platform has allowed us to share thousands of unique places with others online and in 3D. Over time, we’ve excelled in championing Matterport scanning and have since captured several large Matterport scans in Canada.

We are Matterport 3D Experts

Our team has captured large Matterport scans in Canada with a comprehensive understanding of 3D virtual tour technology. Trust the very best and most experienced Matterport Service Providers when a large Matterport scan is needed. Point3D services Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal with large Matterport 3D Virtual Tours. No space is too large or too complex for Matterport capture as we can develop a navigation plan between 3D models for most applications, contact Point3D to learn more about this service.