As technology continues to advance, the hurdles which once prevented mainstream VR adoption continue to fall by the wayside. Barriers like accessibility and price continue to be upended by advances in smartphones and in the availability of affordable VR headset devices.

Matterport & ListedSMRT has partnered with Google to bring the VR experience to Chrome. By adding WebVR support for Daydream-ready phones, users can now access Matterport VR Spaces from directly within their browser.

Imagine a world where you could teleport to a new location in an instant. That’s the world Matterport and a handful of other 3D companies are creating, and we’re getting closer than you might expect! We’re fascinated by the prospect of building a digital “mirror world” that lets anyone explore any place with the push of a button.

Technology has made the real estate world a much smaller place. Remote buyers, once limited by lacking online property information, now have access to a huge variety of online tools offering immersive, interactive experiences of a potential new home from anywhere in the world. Real estate agents hoping to capture more remote buyers, and potentially generate higher bids for their sellers, should leverage the most immersive technologies available in order to build confidence and trust from a distance.

Harold Plunkett pauses in the center section of the Collings Foundation B-17 and places his hand on the ball turret gun, suspended in its belly.

“Yup, I was killed twice here, over Italy, a couple of weeks apart.”

Kachina Gosselin works at the intersection of engineering and international development. She sees significant potential for a fast, immersive way to experience places in need of aid to increase donor and volunteer engagement was well as increase accountability for workers. She took a camera to Haiti Communitere (HC) in Port au Prince to try some ideas.

When we founded Matterport in 2011, virtual reality was beyond the horizon, a technology that had captured everyone’s imagination for decades but had never delivered. We were focused on a dream of our own: enabling easy 3D capture of the real world.