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.
The CHEO Dream Of A Lifetime Home Lottery serves as an annual fundraiser for the Ottawa Children’s Hospital. Purchasing a ticket is a meaningful donation toward building healthier futures for children and youth, addressing the daily needs of the region’s sole pediatric hospital. Whether it’s ensuring access to life-saving treatments, surgeries, care for fractures, diagnostic tests, or participation in vital research studies, CHEO stands ready to serve every child and youth who walks through its doors.
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 Virtual Tour
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.
What Makes Our Virtual Tours Special: A Scan Of Kindness
Every year, we partner with our client Minto Communities Ottawa and present the CHEO Dream Of A Lifetime Home Lottery Dream Home with the latest virtual tour technology at no cost to the CHEO Foundation.
It’s not just us, we’re with several other Minto Dream Home contributors who come together each year to create and donate a one-of-a-kind grand prize for the CHEO Dream Of A Lifetime Home Lottery.
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.
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]]>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 which offers its winning participants more than $4.7 million in prizes including a CHEO Dream Home built by Minto Communities Ottawa alongside cars, cash, and leisure trips.
Doing Our Part
As part of our annual commitment to local charities and not-for-profit organizations, we donated a Matterport 3D Tour to support the local children’s hospital charity lottery. The 3D Virtual Tour captured 360-views of the home with all aspects of the main, upper, and lower levels in incredible detail. Our Leica BLK360 was also used to create the Matterport 3D Tour, capturing the exterior facade and yard of the property.
As in-person showings were not allowed during most of the event promotion, our 3D Virtual Tour of the CHEO Dream Home was used to show more than 100,000 ticket participants their potential prize safely online.
If you have always desired a dream home in Ottawa but are realizing home prices are pushing you further and further away from the city, the CHEO Lifetime Lottery could be the opportunity that you’re looking for. 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 tickets for the lottery are $100 each. You can also buy a 3-pack for $250. The deadline for 2021’s ticket sales for the lottery is 17th December at Midnight and the draw date is January 5th, 2022. You can purchase your tickets here.
The 2021 CHEO Dream Home 3D Virtual Tour
As with every year, the CHEO Dream Home was built by Minto Communities Ottawa, this time in their Mahogany Community in Manotick. Situated on the corner of Skysail Place with a long pie-shaped lot, the home only has neighbours to the left and elegantly backs onto an East-facing park scape which allows a ton of light to flood in during the morning hours.
Serenely natural scenes surround the backyard with the house overlooking the Mahogany Pond. All of this is just around the corner from growing Manotick and a thirty-minute drive from downtown Ottawa, this truly great location for the 2021 CHEO Dream Home.
In addition to the 3D Virtual Tour of the CHEO Dream Home, we captured some photography from our favourite rooms to share.
The 2021 CHEO Dream Home was designed by Tanya Collins to promote the wellness of the body and mind. The front of the house features a wraparound porch that will provide comfort to enjoy the evening breeze or the early warmth of the sun. Built near pathways, you can go for strolls, hiking, or biking during the weekends helping you unwind and connect with nature.
The CHEO Dream Home Design
From the Matterport virtual tour, the CHEO Dream Home is about 4,600 square feet with a lot of beautifully-finished space.
The grand entrance has marble tile and large windows to let an enormous amount of evening light in. The dining room and an office are immediately right and left as you enter. Passing the stairway, the ceiling soars up nearly 24′ opening to a great room that views the large backyard and pond. A designer-inspired chef’s kitchen is complete with state-of-the-art appliances, all with clean white finishes. The principal bedroom is also located on the first floor of the house and features an ensuite bathroom with incredible tile and fixture details.
The second floor of the house has two extra bedrooms, making the bungalow perfect for family life.
The basement offers so much more than a traditional man-cave. It features an entertainment room, a glass-walled additional office, work-out studio, and workshop. It also provides additional access to the three-car garage.
By scanning the 3D Virtual Tour, we had the unique opportunity of seeing the home up-close and are happy to say it is spacious, well-lit, and comes fully furnished. It truly is a Dream Home in Ottawa.
Thanks To Our Partners
We would not have had the opportunity to perform this Random Scan Of Kindness if not for Minto Communities Ottawa trusting Point3D with the creation of the CHEO Dream Home Virtual Tour. While we didn’t work directly with the trades involved, the virtual tour would never have happened without the kindhearted work of the Minto Dream Home contributors.
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 looking to learn more or are ready to explore the use of 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule a meeting.
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]]>We are the 3D Tour vendor of choice for the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Assocation. As such, we are tasked every year to digitize several of Ottawa’s best renovations for the RenoMark® Virtual Reno Tour which has gone completely digital this and last year. The RenoMark® Virtual Reno Tour gives consumers the opportunity to view professionally renovated homes across Ottawa, giving them inspiration for their own renovation ideas and connecting them with Ottawa’s best RenoMark® Renovators.
See some of Ottawa’s best renovations featured in The 2021 RenoMark® Virtual Reno Tour below:
Amsted Design-Build
Website: www.amsted.ca
Phone Number: 613.836.7434
Email: [email protected]
An underutilized walkout basement was remodeled, incorporating a covered patio, to create an ultimate entertainment space that takes advantage of beautiful waterfront sightlines and offers unrestricted exterior access while adding space for a large media room, guest bedroom, home gym, and kitchenette, mudroom, and sauna area with a NanaWall (a movable glass wall).
Amsted Design-Build
Website: www.amsted.ca
Phone Number: 613.836.7434
Email: [email protected]
This century home was poorly insulated with an inefficient floor plan. It was stripped to the studs and rebuilt with a new floor plan to suit the family’s needs. Along with a new main floor, a 15-foot-high second-story rear addition created a “treehouse” master suite that takes advantage of the backyard tree canopy while being careful not to impact the tree’s roots.
Artium Design Build
Website: www.artiumdesignbuild.com
Phone Number: 613.836.0306
Email: [email protected]
This was an extensive, whole-home renovation, with significant structural alterations, multiple bathrooms, a complete kitchen redo, as well as every other room in the home. The house was gutted to the studs and major structural work allowed for the removal of a significant number of walls, creating wonderfully open spaces in what had previously been a chopped up rental property. The design also included fixtures and finishes that brought the home to life in a stunning way, reflecting the homeowners’ personal taste.
RND Construction
Website: www.rndconstruction.ca
Phone Number: 613.523.8298
Email: [email protected]
This project was initially a few changes; a new kitchen, ensuite, and kids’ bathroom and steadily expanded to a whole-home renovation. The home showcases family-friendly, durable and easy-to-clean finishes. Additional storage was added throughout the home, while the aesthetics fit the pop-art-inspired style of the homeowners. The most challenging part of this project was the unexpected water damage from improperly installed windows and vinyl siding. With a little hustle and a lot of care, all damage was removed and the home is now safe and stylish.
Urbacity Design Build
Website: www.ucdb.ca
Phone Number: 613.800.6262
Email: [email protected]
Inside and out, this home was completely made over, creating a dramatic before-and-after effect. A non-functional rear addition was replaced to allow room for an entertainer’s kitchen that integrates outdoor living into the heart of the home. An angled front entry was also added that, along with new exterior cladding, seriously ups the curb appeal of the home. Walls were removed, creating a bright and open concept main floor. Bedrooms and the main bathroom got an upgrade, as did the home’s energy-efficiency measures. Overall, it was quite the transformation.
Lagois: Design, Build, Renovate
Website: www.lagois.com
Phone Number: 613.489.2345
Email: [email protected]
Inside and out, this home was completely made over, creating a dramatic before-and-after effect. A non-functional rear addition was replaced to allow room for an entertainer’s kitchen that integrates outdoor living into the heart of the home. An angled front entry was also added that, along with new exterior cladding, seriously ups the curb appeal of the home. Walls were removed, creating a bright and open concept main floor. Bedrooms and the main bathroom got an upgrade, as did the home’s energy-efficiency measures. Overall, it was quite the transformation.
The Conscious Builder
Website: www.theconsciousbuilder.com
Phone Number: 613.693.0914
Email: [email protected]
An 1860 stone home needed a lot of work and The Conscious Builder was brought in to retrofit it for better efficiency while respecting the home’s heritage. “We thought this was a great opportunity to showcase something a little different than people might be used to seeing,” says The Conscious Builder’s Casey Grey. “A lot of the value in efficient, high-performance home renos go inside the walls, so we decided to do a walls-open tour.”
Carolyn Munro Design Build
Website: www.cmdesignbuild.com
Phone Number: 613.831.9984
It was time to update this kitchen that Carolyn Munro originally designed in the 1990s. The layout suited the homeowners’ needs at the time while raising their family. Now empty nesters, they wanted a change, but one that maintained the traditional style of their home. The layout and the look were changed, but part of the kitchen was reused. “There are other options to installing a brand-new kitchen,” she says, and this project shows how you can do that.
One of the real benefits of going online, beyond making it more comfortable for homeowners to open up their homes, is that the renovations were able to be seen (and still are) online, anytime. Whereas the in-person Reno Tour takes place over a weekend, the RenoMark® Virtual Reno Tour lives online for the whole year or more.
In a typical year, tour organizers expect about 100-200 visitors over the weekend. In the same period of time, the tours had welcomed 1000 online visitors. Since, at the time of writing this blog post, there have been over 5000 visitors to the Ottawa renovations featured in the 2021 Virtual Reno Tour. Some of the renovators are using the 3D Virtual Tours to showcase their work to homeowners.
A Big Thanks To Ottawa’s Best Renovators
In Support Of Habitat For Humanity
To further support the Habitat For Humanity charity fundraiser, we scanned both Habitat For Humanity Ottawa Restores at Iber Road and Belfast Road.
Habitat For Humanity Restores are home and building supply stores that accept and resell quality new and used building materials. Shopping at a Habitat ReStore is a socially conscious decision, as funds generated are used to fund local Habitat for Humanity homebuilding projects.
With the 3D Virtual Tours, the stores are able to showcase what their typical inventory is comprised of. The 3D Virtual Tours are embedded on their websites and are available on Google Maps as a Google Street View Tour. By helping give a look inside the stores, Ottawa Contractors can get a better idea of what they can find at each location before making the trip.
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 looking to learn more or are ready to explore the use of 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule a meeting.
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]]>Ottawa is Doors-Open this June 4-11th 2021!
Doors Open Ottawa is a free event put on by the City of Ottawa each year that encourages residents of Ottawa and local tourists to visit a variety of architecturally significant buildings.
As the city is still actively working to keep their citizens safe, the celebration will be taking place online for the second year in a row. What is exciting about this innovation is that anyone from across the globe can visit some of Ottawa’s amazing buildings!
Doors Open Ottawa is hosting virtual visits to more than 70 of Ottawa’s buildings. The virtual tours offer photos, videos, detailed descriptions, and 3D Virtual Tours.
We created 3D Virtual Tours for 7 of the properties that are a part of Doors Open Ottawa. We are honoured to help the City of Ottawa open its doors to welcome guests worldwide into some of our most unique and/or historic buildings.
Read on to learn more!
Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory. We recognize and honour all First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their valuable contributions to this land.
Take a tour of these architecturally significant buildings in Ottawa!
Through the various 3D Virtual Tours we have completed, guests can take an in-depth tour of historic buildings in Ottawa. Read below to learn more about the buildings we scanned, and visit the Doors Open Ottawa website to see all 70 tours offered!
Osgoode Township Museum
Location 7814 Lawrence St, Vernon, ON K0A3J0
Click Here to access the website!
The Osgoode Township Museum is designed to protect, display, and study material and cultural heritage of the Osgoode Township. It is focused on rural and agricultural artifacts that represent the beginnings of the township and the history around it.
The Osgoode Township Historical Society was founded in 1972. It was on this day the society decided to work towards researching, collecting data, and preserving and publishing the history of the Osgoode Township.
Visit our virtual tour to see what they offer!
Watson’s Mill
Location 5525 Dickinson St, Manotick, ON
Click here to access the website!
Built in the 1860’s by Moss Kent Dickinson and Joseph Currier, the vision for Watson’s Mill was to build a milling complex and new community in what is now present-day Manotick. Watson’s Mill was used as a mill for over 100 years, celebrating its centenary, before the mill manager Harry Watson, the namesake, entered into a partnership with the National Capital Commission.
Today, flour can still be purchased from Watson’s Mill, which is fully operational. Take the opportunity to explore the historic Mill via a 3D Virtual tour, with special access to the watermill, only accessible virtually!
Ottawa Art Gallery
Location 50 Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, ON K1N 0C5
Click here to access the website!
The Ottawa Art Gallery, or OAG, was founded in 1988 by local artists and community leaders. It was officially named the Ottawa Art Gallery in 1992. The OAG is also Ottawa’s municipal art gallery. They host over 1020 works including paintings, graphic art, sculptures, new media designs, and photographs.
Below, tour the “Firestone” collection of Canadian Art. This exhibit features over 1600 works by influential Canadian artists. Some notable names include Maxwell Bates, Edwin Holgate, Henri Masson, and more.
Fairfields Heritage House
Location 3080 Richmond Rd, Nepean, ON K2B 7T9
Click here to access the website!
Fairfields Heritage House is a 19th century Gothic Revival farm house. The preserved home was once owned by the Bell family. The museum within it tells the story of over 200 years of local history. Nearly 175 of those years the home was owned by the Bell family.
Review over 3000 artefacts including furniture, art, and personal belongings of the family. Visit the Cabinet of Curiosities within the museum to see some weird and whimsical possessions!
Click into our virtual tour to see what life was like for the Bell family.
Embassy of Hungary to Canada
Location 299 Waverly St, Ottawa, ON, K2P0V9
Click here to access the website!
Located in the historic Birkett Castle, the Embassy of Hungary in Ottawa is filled with a rich history. Birkett Castle is a nickname for the building once resided by Thomas Birkett. Birkett was born in Ottawa, was the mayor in 1981, and was a member of the House of Commons representing Ottawa from 1900 to 1904.
Tour the space, now used as a functional embassy, using the tour below.
ByTown Museum
Location 1 Canal Ln, Ottawa, ON K1P 5P6
Click here to access the website!
Situated in the heart of Downtown Ottawa, the ByTown Museum is a reflection of the area’s rich history, and a 3D Virtual tour will take you through the museum’s permanent exhibits, detailing the history of Canada’s capital. It is the oldest stone building in Ottawa, built in 1827.
Through our interactive 3D Virtual tour, full of detailed infographics, virtual visitors can learn about the historic arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel John By, the construction of the Rideau Canal during the lumber era, the naming of Ottawa as Canada’s capital, all the way through to the First World War!
Dickinson House Museum
Location 1127 Mill St, Manotick, ON K4M 1A2
Click here to access the website!
Built in 1867, Moss Kent Dickinson built the now-named Dickinson House with a New England architectural style. The building was originally used as mill offices, a post office, and a general store. Dickinson moved into the house in 1870, keeping the general store below. The family lived in the home for another 60 years, operating the mill.
The Dickinson Family assisted in the growth of Manotick through the milling industry, and also served as postmasters, participating in local politics, and founding community organizations. The house was then taken over by two further mill-owning families: the Spratts and the Watson’s. Despite Harry Watson asking for the building to be named Watson’s Mill, it is still named the Dickinson House to this day.
Full List of Participating Buildings in Doors Open Ottawa 2021
The City of Ottawa invites you to celebrate the beautiful architecture around our city. Discover the history of these buildings, and what the future holds for them! Learn more about some of the best-kept secrets of Ottawa, and visit some of your favourite, well-known spaces.
- Arts Court
- Billings Estate National Historic Site
- Bytown Museum
- Canada Council Art Bank
- Canadian Conservation Institute
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Cancer Research Labs (Ottawa Hospital)
- Canmet Bells Corners Research Complex
- Carleton Dominion – Chalmers Centre
- Cascades Recovery +
- Chaudière Falls / Portage Power
- Christ Church Cathedral Ottawa
- Church of St. Bartholomew
- CSS Building Inc
- Cumberland Heritage Village Museum
- Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat
- Dickinson House Musem
- Dominican University College
- Earnscliffe National Historic Site
- Embassy of Algeria: Fleck-Paterson House
- Embassy of Hungary to Canada – Birkett Castle
- Enriched Bread Artists (EBA)
- Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa – Roger Guindon Hall
- Fairfield Heritage House
- First Church of Christ, Scientist
- First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa
- French Embassy in Canada
- Global Centre for Pluralism
- Goulbourn Museum
- Heritage Building and Ottawa City Hall
- Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards
- James Bartleman Centre
- Jami Omar Mosque
- John R. Booth Residence
- Joyful Land Kadampa Buddhist Centre
- Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
- Library of Parliament – Former Bank of Nova Scotia
- Lisgar Collegiate Institute
- Mosque of Mercy
- National Arts Centre
- National Gallery of Canada
- Nepean Sailing Club
- OC Transpo Simulator Facility
- Official Residence of the Embassy of Denmark
- Osgoode Township Museum
- Ottawa Art Gallery
- Ottawa Fire Services Communications Centre
- Ottawa Fire Services Maintenance Division
- Ottawa Main Mosque
- Ottawa Masonic Centre / Tunis Shriners Temple
- Ottawa Paramedic Service Headquarters
- Ottawa Wedding Chapel
- Parliament of Canada: Centre Block
- Ready for Rail 360-Degree Tour
- Richmond Loyal Orange Lodge
- Rideau Archives, City of Ottawa Archives
- Rideau Hall
- Saint Matthew and Great Martyr Hristina Church
- Scouts Canada National Museum
- SPAO Centre
- St. James the Apostle Anglican Church
- St. Luke’s Anglican Church
- St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
- St. Peter and St. Paul’s Anglican Church
- Supreme Court of Canada
- The Centre for Health Innovation
- The Ottawa Mission
- The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- The University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre
- TSB Engineering Laboratory
- United States Embassy in Ottawa
- Vanier Museopark
- Wallis House
- Watson’s Mill
- West Block
We are 3D Virtual Tour Specialists
3D Virtual tours offer a unique and immersive solution to a wide range of industries. If you are interested and are looking to learn more or are ready to use 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule your scan.
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]]>Every year, the RenoMark® Reno Tour gives consumers the opportunity to view professionally renovated homes across Ottawa. This year, though, things were a little different. With fewer people being comfortable leaving their homes for unessential purposes and homeowners not opening up their homes to hundreds of strangers, it wasn’t looking good for the Reno Tour.
In June at a GOHBA Renovator’s Marketing Committee council meeting the topic of postponing this year’s annual Reno Tour came up for discussion and it was decided that we would capture 3D Virtual Tours of the renovations, whether they were a whole home makeover or a simple kitchen re-fit. By doing this, only our capture team needed to visit the home to make it available to view for thousands of people online.
See some of the beautiful and creative renovations featured in The 2020 Reno Tour below:
Amsted Design-Build
Website: www.amsted.ca
Phone Number: 613.836.7434
Email: [email protected]
This whole-home renovation features a new open-concept kitchen and sunroom, updated living room, added powder room, redesigned staircase, and a fully-finished basement.
Amsted Design-Build
Website: www.amsted.ca
Phone Number: 613.836.7434
Email: [email protected]
The Amsted team, in collaboration with StyleHaus Interiors, converted what was originally a 50+ year old brick bungalow with a largely unusable second floor space into a “show stopper” Craftsman home with a clean, transitional interior.
Carleton Kitchens
Website: www.renoenvy.ca
Phone Number: 613.253.0080
Email: [email protected]
The homeowner wanted Carleton Kitchen and Bath to design and install an eclectic, show-stopping kitchen fit for a trained chef and perfect for entertaining.
Gladwin Building Services
Website: www.gladwinbuildingservices.com
Phone Number: 613.592.8822
Email: [email protected]
Gladwin Building Services Inc was tasked with transforming a 50-year-old, three-bedroom Cape Cod into a five-bedroom home for a blended family.
Just Basements
Website: www.justbasementsottawa.ca
Phone Number: 613.836.03.06
Email: [email protected]
Ever wonder what would happen if you decided to go wild and make the basement of your dreams?
Lagois: Design, Build, Renovate
Website: www.lagois.com
Phone Number: 613.489.2345
Email: [email protected]
In this renovation, there were unique features and challenges. Relocating stair location and removing the interior kitchen wall opened up the entire space to unveil a beautiful surround-scape of the Ottawa River.
The annual Reno Tour you’re used go, now online
One of the real benefits of going online, beyond making it more comfortable for homeowners to open up their homes, is that the renovations were able to be seen (and still are) online, anytime. Whereas the in-person Reno Tour takes place over a weekend, the digital Reno Tour lives online for whole year or more.
In a typical year, tour organizers expect about 450-500 visitors over the weekend. In the same period of time, the tours had welcomed 800 online visitors. Since, at the time of writing this blog post, there have been over 5000 visitors to the Ottawa renovations featured in the 2020 Reno Tour. Some of the renovators are using the 3D Virtual Tours to showcase their work to homeowners.
One step further with a Random Scan Of Kindness
To further support the Habitat For Humanity charity fundraiser, we scanned both Habitat For Humanity Ottawa Restores at Iber Road and Belfast Road. We did this completely free of any cost as a charitable service. As part of Random Scans Of Kindness initiative, we happily support good, local non-profit organizations doing their best to enrich the lives of others.
Habitat For Humanity Restores are home and building supply stores that accept and resell quality new and used building materials. Shopping at a Habitat ReStore is a socially conscious decision, as funds generated are used to fund local Habitat for Humanity homebuilding projects.
With the 3D Virtual Tours, the stores are able to showcase what their typical inventory is comprised of. The 3D Virtual Tours are embedded on their websites and are available on Google Maps as a Google Street View Tour. By helping give a look inside the stores, Ottawa Contractors can get a better idea of what they can find at each location before making the trip.
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 looking to learn more or are ready to explore the use of 3D Virtual Tours in Ottawa, Montreal or Toronto, contact our team to schedule a meeting.
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]]>When Ottawa’s Capital Pride’s Director Osmel Maynes reached out looking for a safe solution to what is normally an in-person event, we immediately stepped up to support Ottawa’s 2SLGBT+ Community with a random scan of kindness.
DIGITAL PROGRAMMING CHALLENGES
Osmel and the Capital Pride team organize a variety of fun, cause-driven programming for Pride week every year here in Ottawa. This year presented the massive challenge of digitizing the program to make it more accessible while adhering to the covid event guidelines of the time.
Two events that normally attract hundreds of visitors were the Youth Art Showcase and Community Market. Together, we determined that our 3D Virtual Tours could serve as an immersive alternative and with the Ottawa Art Gallery as a venue, we set up to capture the art and wares of the community’s makers in their Alma Duncan Salon.
Take a look below at the 3D Virtual Tours we captured for Capital Pride 2020.
YOUTH ART SHOWCASE
Showing the beautiful art work of 20+ 2SLGBT+ artists, this 3D Virtual Tour hosted more than 1000 visitors over Capital Pride week. All artists as are credited through the use of multimedia labels.
COMMUNITY MARKET
Ottawa’s 2SLGBT+ community is host to many creative and entrepreneurial makers who appreciated having an outlet to show their works online during Capital Pride. The community market also had us support other sponsor partners by digitizing their information booths with links to learn more.
HOW GOING VIRTUAL HELPED CAPITAL PRIDE 2020
Broken down by the numbers, digital visits to Capital Pride’s website were up nearly 100% this year. While most years their Art Showcase and Community Market would entertain hundreds of in-person visitors, this year more than a thousand were welcomed to the online versions of the events.
We know that a ‘Digital Twin’ will never live up to the real thing but given the circumstances, this was the next best thing. One more benefit from having the 3D Virtual Tour is that it will remain available for event organizers, artists, and makers to show off for the rest of a year, something you wouldn’t be able to do with the physical venue.
WE PROUDLY SUPPORT OTTAWA’S NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Every year we support Not For Profit organizations through our Random Scans Of Kindness initiative.
If your organization is interested in partnering with us in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto please contact us directly for information on how we can help with our 3D Virtual Tours.
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