Matterport, a company set to soon launch a 3D camera and interactive viewing platform that will allow users to create digital ‘scans’ of real-world environments and share them online, has announced a $5.6m funding round.
Matterport’s camera will allow you to scan whole rooms and let others explore them via a Web browser or iPad. Some of the uses for this could be to explore a home you’re looking to buy or rent for a vacation, or to check out a restaurant you’re thinking of visiting. That said, such photo-realistic scans could have all sorts of other uses – game development being an obvious possibility.
You can try out the quality of the scans created here.