With Matterport buy, CoStar makes it a ground game

Digital twin creation company Matterport has sold to CoStar, parent of home search experience Homes.com and Zillow’s chief rival. The deal stands to greatly increase the amount of industry data available to the company for use in its appeal to both rea… Continue reading

Latest Matterport release looks to ‘automate the future’

Known as Matterport Property Intelligence, the release contains features now out of beta testing, such as automatic room-by-room labeling and dimensions, color-coded and company-branded floor plans and property reports for fully detailed physical listi… Continue reading

Zillow’s Immerse app promises ‘jaw dropping’ 3D home tours

Zillow Immerse is the latest in a series of software releases from the home search leader as it moves toward an agent services model, collectively referred to as its “super app.” Continue reading

Vacasa gives Matterport multi-year marketing deal

Matterport and Vacasa will be traveling a lot together in the near future. The vacation home company hired the digital twin creator in a multi-year contract to help market its global portfolio of vacation homes under management. Continue reading

Matterport calculates square feet, labels rooms with latest AI update

The feature is in beta mode and, upon formal rollout, will allow agents instant access to room dimensions and total square footage by room and floor, according to an announcement Tuesday. Continue reading

Matterport’s Genesis doubles-down on digital twin management

Matterport, the company that commercialized 3D listing tours and made the industry familiar with the term “digital twin,” has set yet another benchmark for digitally immersive real estate marketing with the release of Genesis. Continue reading

Matterport overhauls account plans amid subscriber growth

Much-needed changes were made according to account level. Customers were lumped into buying what seemed like random blocks of home scans with big gaps between the number of digital twins allowed. Continue reading

iGuide software update draws in architects with DWG format

Property data capture company Planitar, which sells iGuide, a digital twin and dynamic digital floor plan production software, has worked its way deeper into the architectural mainstream, according to the company.
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