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The VR Job Hub: Meta, Matterport & Albyon

VR Job Hub

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together vacancies from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe to help make finding that ideal job easier. Below is a selection of roles that are currently accepting applications across a number of disciplines, all within departments and companies that focus on immersive entertainment.

Location Company Role Link
Los Angeles, CA Meta (Reality Labs) Product Manager Click Here to Apply
Redmond, WA Meta (Reality Labs) Software Engineer – Security Engineering Click Here to Apply
Seattle, WA Meta (Reality Labs) Technical Art Manager Click Here to Apply
Redmond, WA Meta (Reality Labs) Data Engineering Manager, Analytics Click Here to Apply
Tokyo, Japan Meta (Reality Labs) Communications Manager Click Here to Apply
Seattle, WA Meta (Reality Labs) Industrial Designer Click Here to Apply
Seattle, WA Meta (Reality Labs) Animation Art Manager Click Here to Apply
Remote, US Meta (Reality Labs) Surfacing Designer, Industrial Design Click Here to Apply
US, Remote Matterport API/SDK Customer Support Engineer Click Here to Apply
US Matterport Staff Motion Designer Click Here to Apply
London, UK Matterport Business Development Manager – EMEA Click Here to Apply
US, Remote Matterport Regional Marketplace Manager Click Here to Apply
US Matterport Enterprise Sale Development Rep Click Here to Apply
Tokyo, Japan Matterport Solutions Engineer Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Network Administrator (French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Associate Producer (French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Admin/Office Manager(French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Operations Director (French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Middle/Senior 3D Technical Artist (French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Real Time Developer (French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon 3D Texture Modeller(French) Click Here to Apply
Lyon, France Albyon Middle/Senior Lighting Artist – Unreal (French) Click Here to Apply

Don’t forget, if there wasn’t anything that took your fancy this week there’s always last week’s listings on The VR Job Hub to check as well.

If you are an employer looking for someone to fill an immersive technology related role – regardless of the industry – don’t forget you can send us the lowdown on the position and we’ll be sure to feature it in that following week’s feature. Details should be sent to Peter Graham (pgraham@vrfocus.com).

We’ll see you next week on VRFocus at the usual time of 3PM (UK) for another selection of jobs from around the world.

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Matterport Enters Virtual Tour Production Partnership With Insta360

Virtual reality (VR) isn’t just about transporting you to fantastical, otherworldly locations dreamed up by creators, it just as easily has the power to take you wherever you want in the world. It was this ability that Matterport seized upon to create its VR tours for applications such as property. Today, Matterport has announced a new partnership with camera company Insta360 to make virtual tour creation even easier.

Insta360 One X

Using the new Insta360 ONE X camera – which was announced later last year – tour creators can capture property and then use Matterport’s AI-powered software to create an interactive 3D floor plan and walkthrough, complete with depth and square footage data.

“Today marks a huge step forward for 360 capture in real estate,” said Michael Shabun, Insta360’s Director of Marketing, North America in a statement. “Virtual tours used to be expensive, time-consuming and complex. Using the ONE X, anyone can create one with a few taps.”

A lot of Insta360’s cameras have been focused on the consumer market, apart from its very high-end professional device, the Insta360 Titan. The company is now trying to expand its focus to include more enterprise use cases such as Matterport’s. Additionally, Insta360 also announced upcoming integrations with a range of other popular virtual tour platforms, including iStaging, immoviewer, Cupix, VPiX and Kuula.

Insta360 ONE X Frontview

Insta360’s integration with Matterport is currently going through a beta phase, with a public release planned for March. If you already own an Insta360 ONE X you can request access to the beta today at matterport.com/register. In addition to the public launch, in March Matterport will introduce a new $9.99 USD-per-month subscription tier for their virtual tour software, designed to introduce ONE X users new to the platform.

The Insta360 ONE X is available for purchase priced at $399.95. The 5.7K resolution camera records in 30 FPS along with 50 FPS in 4K and 100 FPS for 3K video, has built-in stabilisation features and a slow-mo mode for those dramatic action sequences. The device also features an 18MP photo mode to capture images.

As Insta360 and Matterport continue their collaboration to make virtual tours easier and quicker to make, VRFocus will keep you updated on their progress.

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Fire Investigators Are Now Using VR Photogrammetry Tech to Assess Damage to Homes

A house fire is a sickening reality, but when it’s finally time to clean up and tally losses, that’s where fire investigators come in. Now, forensic investigation firm Donan and 3D scanning company Matterport are partnering to bring fire investigators the tools to make highly detailed photogrammetry scans so they can review the situation from afar through a VR headset, desktop client, or mobile app.

Donan is bringing every fire investigator across the country a Matterport camera, and every Donan fire client the ability to view the resultant interactive 3D models. Matterport’s photogrammetry system is automated, allowing for the creation of virtual 3D models, accurate measurements, high-resolution 4K 2D photography, and floor plans.

According to a press statement, the scans will be included in their official documentation process for all structural fire losses, including tools for soot and smoke claims. Insurance adjusters can also use the scans to assess damages, and more easily write estimates for quicker claim settlement.

Notably, in the event of suspected wrongdoing, the scans can even be used in court to put the jury at the scene of the fire with the help of a VR headset, enhancing the available evidence in an arson case.

Since its founding in 2010, Matterport’s tech has mostly found a home in the real estate industry, providing their Pro2 3D camera series to real estate agents around the world so they can more accurately capture and show off properties to potential clients. In 2016, the company embarked on a mission to make the “world’s largest library of VR places” in their online gallery of publicly available 3D scans.

Check out an example scan on Donan’s website to see a fully interactive walk-through.

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VR Scanning Company Matterport Gets New Investment

With usage of virtual reality (VR) in areas such as architecture and real estate undergoing growth, demand for services such as those provided by Matterport is high. In order to continue to meet this demand, Matterport has secured new investment from State Auto Labs.

Matterport has created a platform for creating accurate 3D models of real-world spaces, which can be viewed in VR for a variety of applications, including design, architecture and real estate. The new investment from State Auto Labs will enable Matterport to expand into the Insurance area.

A number of industries now utilise the technology created by Matterport. The company is now in a position to expand its reach into the insurance sector. A number of property owners and insurance professionals re turning to 3D immersive media to document and asses the condition of assets.

The advantage of Matterport’s system is that is can create an accurate model of a 3D real-world space that can provide a more complete, detailed and comprehensive level of documentation that would be possible using 2D photographs or drawings.

“We’re thrilled to partner with State Auto Labs to expand the reach of our industry-leading 3D reality capture platform within the insurance industry,” said Bill Brown, Matterport CEO. “State Auto is clearly at the forefront of bringing increased efficiency and transparency to the insurance industry, and we are proud to be aligned with this mission. In a relatively short amount of time, Matterport has positioned itself as an invaluable solution for insurance professionals and property owners by providing a more transparent, dimensionally precise means of documenting residential and commercial properties. Our technology can significantly aid in protecting a person’s most valuable assets, and this strategic investment will enable us to accelerate our growth in this important sector.”

“Matterport has the opportunity to revolutionize how property risks are underwritten and claims are handled in the insurance industry,” said Kim Garland, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines & Managing Director of State Auto Labs. “We are delighted to work with Matterport as they extend their revolutionary technology to the insurance vertical, and are honored that they are the first investment of the State Auto Labs Fund.”

Further news on developments within the VR sector will be reported on here at VRFocus.

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Matterport Opens Early Access to 3D Showcase SDK for Select Developers

3D media technology company Matterport, best known for its camera platform of the same name, has recently announced  that it is offering early access for select developers for its new 3D Showcase SDK, allows companies to create new applications using Matterport’s software.

Matterport 3D-showcase

Using the 3D Showcase SDK, developers will be able to create publicly available websites and apps, customising the user experience to their own specific needs.

“Developers have been eager to build on top of our platform for years, so we are excited to enable them to create new and exciting solutions for their respective industries,” said Damien Leostic, VP of Product at Matterport in a statement. “What sets Matterport apart is that we generate fully immersive True3DTM walkthroughs versus others who create 360 panoramic tours which sometimes, mistakenly, get referred to as 3D. True3DTM is distinguished by the 3D depth data that creates truly immersive experiences and enables developers countless possibilities to build on top of this experience.”

Aimed more towards the real estate, travel and hospitality, insurance, retail, architecture, engineering and construction industries, the software has already been tested by Multivista, a specialist in visual construction documentation. Multivista created Site-Walk 360°, allowing Matterport’s 3D models to be embedded into the Multivista platform, thus enabling Multivista customers to virtually walk through construction sites from anywhere in the world.

Multivista Matterport

“Using Matterport’s SDK has enabled us to expand our functionality and support specific information workflows required by the AEC industry,” said Graham Twigg, Chief Technology Officer of Multivista. “The Matterport SDK has allowed us to improve our Site-Walk 360° service, which delivers an immersive virtual walkthrough tied to a state-of-the-art interactive floorplan.”

The 3D Showcase SDK is currently free for select developers with Matterport planning to roll out additional features for the platform in the future in an effort to expand on 3D Showcase SDK capabilities, and may charge for later versions of the SDK. For any further updates from Matterport, keep reading VRFocus.

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Matterport’s Immersive 3D VR Platform Gets Faster Space Capture and Google Street View Features

Matterport customers are about to get a few more features to enhance the speed and accuracy at which they can use the software. Matterport’s thousands of customers should find a few more business opportunities opening up soon, with faster space capture thanks to new camera firmware, and introduction of Google Street View publishing.

Both initiatives are currently in beta, but are expected to help customers in the restaurant, retail, travel, hospitality, real estate, architecture, construction and engineering industries.

We’ve recently seen Matterport help with Virtual Housing Spaces. The busy company have also been expanding their platform globally.

With the Google Street View publishing beta, Matterport users will easily be able to convert their Matterport 3D Space into an experience that can be exported and show up on Google Maps, Google Earth and Street View as panoramic photo tours, giving potential customers browsing the local area much more insight into the businesses in that area.

Matterport CEO Bill Brown believes this Google Street View publishing beta will enhance the value of Matterport to its existing customers, and simplify the publishing process; “Google Street View publishing and faster space capture are two of the many initiatives that greatly increase the value of Matterport for camera operators, as well as businesses that want to use Google to drive people to their websites. Matterport is the solution of choice for all types of businesses because our automation makes it easy for anyone to quickly capture a space and get a high-quality 3D environment. Now this content can be experienced as a Matterport immersive 3D environment on a business’ website and can also be used to published as a Google Street View experience on Google Maps, Google Earth, or mobile Street View.”

The software essentially automates and eases the process of creating and publishing panoramic photo galleries, all of which can be done with the Matterport camera and software. No additional hardware or software required – a relief for anyone who has previously had to use several cameras and additional editing to achieve a similar effect in the past.

And even the base process of creating a Matterport 3D Space will be easier than ever before, thanks to new firmware which speeds up the camera rotation, enabling the camera to scan 3D spaces in a fraction of the time it did previously.

The firmware update is of course free, and will work for all Pro2 and Pro Matterport cameras. The quality of images will remain unchanged. You can see the new firmware in action at the link below.

For all of the latest advancements and updates from companies like Matterport, make sure to keep reading VRFocus.

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Matterport Team with roOomy To Develop Virtual Housing Spaces

Since virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) rose to prominence, there has been a steady rise in consumer demand for the technology for applications such as virtual representations of products, something that Matterport has been engaged in for real estate purposes. ~The company is now taking this idea a step further with help from 3D modelling company roOomy.

Matterport are working with roOomy to integrate Matterport’s existing immersive 3D platform with roOomy’s virtual staging technology to allow Matterport customers to virtually furnish spaces such as apartments or houses, to allow them to better visualise how the space will look as a home.

This system has benefits for property managers and real estate agents as well, allowing them to virtually stage an apartment or home and tailor it to each customer instead of using show homes, which can be costly, and removes a valuable space from the market for an extended period.

In addition, retailers such as Wayfair, Amazon or Houzz are featured on the roOomy platform and can offer items featured to buy or rent if customers decide they like how they look when viewed in the virtual space.

“Our mission at roOomy is to break down the visualization barriers that often accompany the home buying or renting process, while also making it easier and more enjoyable to shop for your new space when it’s time to move,” said Pieter Aarts, co-founder and CEO of roOomy. “We are the market leaders in virtual staging. This new collaboration with Matterport eliminates the many hurdles and extra steps that often come with physical staging and allows buyers and renters to see and feel an optimized rendition of the listing from anywhere.”

“Matterport is digitizing the world’s spaces, moving toward a day when any space can be shared or modified online via Web, mobile, VR, or AR. Our collaboration with roOomy is exciting as it demonstrates the extensibility of the Matterport platform. Enabling roOomy to build a virtual staging app using our platform will transform how real spaces are experienced, allowing users to easily personalize a space and visualize any changes made to it,” said Bill Brown, Matterport CEO. “We anticipate the utility and lifespan of a Matterport 3D Space to grow with valuable applications such as this.”

To see the Matterport and roOomy system in action, there are two interactive 360-degree tours available through the Matterport website. VRFocus will bring you further news on developments within the VR industry as they become available.

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Matterport Expands 3D Reality Capture Platform in Greater China

Immersive media technology company Matterport, which is known for its professional-grade 360-degree cameras, has announced a new partnership today with Centaline Data Technology Limited and Centaline Property Agency Limited, a real estate agency based in China.

The partnership will provide the agency with Matterport’s interactive 3D reality capture and application platform, enabling its 60,000 professionals across 2,000 offices to capture immersive data for use in the Chinese market.

The partnership is another milestone in Matterport’s continued global expansion and initiative to further localize its product suite for key international markets, having earlier this year launched its official China content distribution network in partnership with ChinaNetCenter, allowing for quicker rendering times for Chinese consumers.

“As Matterport continues its rapid growth and international expansion, China is one of the next critical markets for us. We are extremely pleased to have found a strategic partner in Centaline Property Agency Limited that is similarly committed to our aim of transforming how people interact with and experience real-world spaces,” stated Bill Brown, Matterport CEO in a statement. “Our platform makes it fast and easy to create and share immersive 3D models of properties on the web, mobile and VR. We look forward to helping Centaline and its agents realize the full potential of how our technology can improve their business with all of their property listings.”

“The Centaline Property Agency is committed to making the home buying process as open, simple yet thorough as possible. Centaline Web now features the largest number property listings that include a VR experience,” said Mr. Wong Wai-hung, Chairman and CEO of Centaline. “Partnering with Matterport was an obvious step toward further securing our leadership in the marketplace and increasing the number of listings that feature VR.”

Matterport doesn’t just deal with real estate, its system has been used in travel and hospitality; architecture, engineering and construction (AEC); business listings; insurance; and facilities management, among others. The company’s network of 2,700+ service partners across 80 countries has helped capture over 700,000 spaces.

Earlier this year, Matterport announced a partnership with Google to enable the publication of immersive Matterport content to Google Street View, as well as an investment from Ericsson and updating it camera.

For further Matterport updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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Ericsson Invest in Matterport For 3D and VR Imaging

Matterport have been making a name for themselves in the virtual reality (VR) sector by producing high-quality 360-degree cameras and 4K DSLR still images. The company has previously partnered with construction and real estate firms to provide 3D floorplans and 360-degree walkthroughs of properties. Now Ericcson Ventures have announced it will be investing in the company.

Matterport currently has one of the largest libraries of 3D data of real-world locations, which has begun to be used for AI computer vision and machine learning to allow AIs to learn to understand spacial awareness and digital reconstruction. Matterport are planning to use the new investment to further accelerate its deep learning and research and development in order to further develop its 3D and VR platforms for business applications.

“We’re excited to partner with Ericsson Ventures as we work to extend our lead in the market and bring Matterport’s scalable, cloud-based immersive media platform to more industries in the U.S. and abroad,” said Bill Brown, Matterport CEO. “Ericsson Ventures saw the tremendous opportunity Matterport has to extend our technology lead by using our massive library of 3D models as a deep learning training dataset to create AI that will be the basis for our next generation products. This strategic investment will help us to more quickly develop the technology to its full potential and achieve our mission of making 3D models the primary medium for digitally experiencing, understanding, sharing, and reimagining the world.”

“Ericsson has time and again proven instrumental in enabling new ecosystems that benefit from ever increasing connectivity performance. Technologies such as AR/VR and 3D computer vision is one such ecosystem that we believe is expected to experience rapid growth, fuelled by dramatic improvements in bandwidth availability and latency periods,” said Albert Kim, Head of Ericsson Ventures. “We are very excited to be a part of Matterport’s revolutionary journey going forward, as it continues to disrupt large existing markets while creating a differentiated technology stack and unique data set in 3D computer vision.”

VRFocus will continue to report on new developments in the VR industry.

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Matterport Introduced WebVR Support For VR App

Matterport are largely known as a provider of professional-grade 360-degree cameras that can also capture DSLR high quality stills. Matterport also supply Matterport VR Spaces, an app that allows users to access virtual reality (VR) content published by Matterport’s partner industries. Matterport is now planning to extend support for Matterport VR spaces beyond Google Daydream to any Android device using WebVR.

Matterport have been working with real estate companies such as Truss to provide 360-degree walkthrough of available properties for customers to explore at their leisure using a Google Daydream headset. With the addition of WebVR support, users on any compatible Android device will be able to use their web browser to view the Matterport VR space content without needing a Google Daydream headset or a separate app.

WebVR is designed to be an open source standard developed by a group of engineers as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The WebVR API was developed and shaped by experts from Google, Apple, Mozilla and other internet and VR companies. WebVR allows end users to access VR content using a web browser, without needing individual apps, codecs or other software.

For Matterport Vr space using WebVR, users wishing to access content will need an Android device with Android 5.0 Lollipop or newer, along with a built in gyroscope and Chrome browser version 59 or newer. A user will just need to tap the VR icon in the bottom right to switch to VR mode whist viewing Matterport content.

Matterport have plans to extend WebVR support to iOS devices and to Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR in the near future, though a time frame for this has not been specified.

VRFocus will bring you further news on Matterport and WebVR as it becomes available.