3D Tour Hosting Options with Adam Garrett
Updated: Nov 2
I offer standard Matterport 3D tours, enhanced MPSkin tours, and standalone 360° panorama hosting. Options include complimentary hosting, paid annual hosting with or without my real estate branding, and customized partnerships.
Experience an Interactive 3D Tour
Featured Example of a 500 Scan Tour: James River Country Club – Newport News, Virginia
This Matterport Pro3 project includes approximately 500 scans documenting the clubhouse, dining facilities, golf museum, tennis facilities, pools, and other amenities.
It demonstrates how visitors can virtually navigate a large property and explore interconnected spaces.
For an enhanced presentation with additional menus, branding, and other interactive features, see the MPSkin example below.
Annual Hosting Prices Per Tour
Special Pricing Exceptions When I Provide Initial Scanning at No Charge for Certain Projects
When I provide initial scanning at no charge, I reserve the right to offer different hosting prices or terms for select projects, particularly neighborhoods, country clubs, coworking spaces, hotels, and other large or complex properties. Any alternative terms will be established before a paid hosting agreement begins.
Why Might Complimentary 3D Documentation Projects Have Different Hosting Terms?
When I provide initial 3D scanning at no charge, I'm sometimes contributing professional services that would otherwise represent a substantial expense to the property owner or organization.
My standard hosting prices primarily reflect ongoing tour availability and presentation, rather than the initial work involved in capturing, processing, and preparing the tour.
For larger projects, such as country clubs, neighborhoods, museums, and large/multi-facility properties, that initial contribution can be particularly significant. Consequently, I may offer customized hosting, branded, or partnership arrangements rather than the standard rates.
Estimate the Value of Initial 3D Documentation
The calculator below illustrates what I would typically charge for comparable Matterport Pro3 capture and related services.
These estimates are for informational purposes and do not represent a retroactive charge for work I've agreed to provide complimentary. Actual project pricing depends on the scope, complexity, access requirements, and selected services.
Hosting Option | ≤200 Scans | 201–500 Scans | 501–1,000 Scans* |
Complimentary Branded Matterport and/or MPSkin | Free* | Free* | Free* |
Branded Matterport | $45 | $90 | $135 |
Branded MPSkin | $60 | $110 | $160 |
Unbranded Matterport | $100 | $200 | $300 |
Unbranded MPSkin | $150 | $250 | $350 |
Partnership Hosting at No Monthly Fee or Hybrid Partnership w/ Some Fees &/or Branding | By Agreement | By Agreement | By Agreement |
Complimentary hosting is offered at my discretion, without a guaranteed hosting period. I may archive either or both versions at any time if no time that I will hosted is offered in advance. In some cases, I may discontinue the MPSkin presentation while retaining the underlying Matterport tour.
* Projects Exceeding 500 Scans
Larger projects may be maintained as one Matterport tour or divided into multiple interconnected tours, depending on their layout, complexity, and performance. Larger Matterport tours generally require more data and may take longer to load, particularly on slower devices or internet connections. Dividing larger projects into separate tours connected through MPSkin can improve loading performance and usability, especially when a property contains distinct buildings or areas. However, keeping a project together may provide a better experience when seamless navigation is more important. Where multiple tours are used, annual hosting prices generally reflect the combined applicable rates for each tour.
Standalone Momento360 hosting: $10/year per 360° image.
Paid annual hosting covers the selected version for 12 months. Partnership arrangements may have separately negotiated durations and benefits.
Compare the Different 3D & 360° Experiences
Enhanced MPSkin Tour – Yorktown Beach Hotel
MPSkin builds upon Matterport by adding enhanced navigation, customization, and opportunities to incorporate additional imagery and interactive elements.
Standalone 360° Panorama – Warwick Yacht Club
Above: Warwick River Yacht Club
This interactive aerial panorama allows visitors to look around from an elevated viewpoint without navigating an entire Matterport tour.
Tour Formats & Features
What Does a Standard Matterport Tour Include?
Matterport allows visitors to virtually explore a property and move between captured locations, providing a spatial understanding that ordinary photographs cannot fully convey.
Depending on the project and enabled features, visitors may be able to:
Navigate interconnected indoor and outdoor spaces.
View the property from different perspectives.
Explore a dollhouse or floor-plan representation.
Access informational tags containing text, photographs, videos, and links.
Examine architectural features and room relationships.
Standard Matterport tours can be embedded on websites and shared through direct links.
The James River Country Club tour above demonstrates the standard Matterport experience on a substantial property.
However, the standard Matterport viewer does not include all the additional customization and navigation options available through MPSkin.
What Additional Features Does MPSkin Provide?
MPSkin builds upon an existing Matterport tour by adding a customizable presentation layer.
Depending on the project, enhancements can include:
Customized navigation menus and submenus.
Easier access to different areas of a property.
A more customizable minimap, including custom floor plans where supported.
Greater control over disabling zoom without relying solely on a Matterport URL parameter that visitors can easily modify.
Additional branding and presentation options, including the ability to display a logo throughout the tour.
More user-friendly integration of separate 360° panoramas, including aerial views, with interactive hotspots and navigation.
Connecting multiple Matterport tours or other compatible 360° experiences into a unified navigation experience.
Integrating Google Maps links and location maps into the tour's navigation.
Additional interactive elements, including informational pop-ups, images, videos, PDFs, and external links.
MPSkin can be particularly valuable for hotels, country clubs, museums, neighborhoods, and other properties with multiple buildings, amenities, or areas of interest.
Example Above: Yorktown Beach Hotel
Not every feature is included in every tour. Some features depend on the particular configuration and device compatibility. For example, a minimap may be omitted if it causes performance or stability problems.
Important: MPSkin depends on the underlying Matterport model. Paid MPSkin hosting includes the continued underlying Matterport availability necessary for the enhanced presentation to function. Standard Matterport hosting alone does not guarantee continued availability of MPSkin enhancements.
How Does Standalone 360° Panorama Hosting Work?
Some businesses and property owners want individual interactive 360° photographs without requiring visitors to open a complete 3D tour.
I offer standalone hosting through Momento360 for:
$10 per year, per 360° image.
These panoramas can be embedded independently on a website, allowing visitors to look around from a particular location.
Example Above: Warwick Yacht Club – Aerial 360° Panorama
Standalone vs. Integrated 360° Panoramas
There are two primary presentation options:
Integrated into MPSkin: Aerial or ground-level panoramas can become part of a larger 3D tour, accessible through menus, hotspots, or other interactive elements.
Hosted independently through Momento360: Individual panoramas can be embedded directly into a webpage without requiring visitors to open a full Matterport tour.
For example, a hotel might embed an aerial panorama on its homepage while offering a complete MPSkin tour elsewhere on its website.
Standalone hosting is priced separately from Matterport and MPSkin hosting. The $10 annual fee covers hosting an existing panorama, not necessarily the cost of capturing or producing new imagery.
What's the Difference Between Branded and Unbranded Hosting?
Branded Hosting
Includes attribution such as:
"Presented by Adam Garrett – Garrett Realty Partners"
The lower annual hosting rate reflects the promotional value I receive from retaining this attribution.
Unbranded Hosting
Removes references to Adam Garrett and Garrett Realty Partners, allowing the tour to be presented without my personal or brokerage promotional branding.
The underlying technology platforms may still display their own branding.
Unbranded hosting does not automatically transfer ownership of the Matterport model or control of the hosting accounts.
Real Estate Advertising Requirements
Unbranded hosting removes my promotional attribution from the tour presentation. Where brokerage identification or other disclosures are required for real estate advertising, these will be provided in the surrounding advertisement, webpage, or another appropriate location consistent with applicable laws and brokerage policies. The MLS view of 3D tours requires the removal of all of my branding of myself & my business.
Hosting Policies & Tour Modifications
How Does Complimentary Hosting Work?
I sometimes provide complimentary hosting when a project has public, promotional, educational, community, or other value.
Complimentary hosting may include:
A branded standard Matterport tour.
A branded enhanced MPSkin tour.
Both presentations, at my discretion.
However, complimentary hosting does not guarantee continued availability.
Because I cover the ongoing platform expenses, I reserve the right to archive either presentation at any time.
I may, for example, discontinue an MPSkin presentation while keeping the underlying Matterport tour available.
Businesses and organizations that prefer a defined hosting commitment may select a paid annual option or negotiate a partnership.
Complimentary hosting is not guaranteed for every project.
What Does Paid Annual Hosting Include?
Paid annual hosting maintains the selected version of the tour for a defined 12-month period, subject to the continued availability of the underlying technology platforms.
Standard Matterport Hosting
Covers the selected Matterport model and its standard viewer.
Enhanced MPSkin Hosting
Covers the selected enhanced presentation and the underlying Matterport availability needed for it to function.
Annual hosting also includes additional privacy blurring of existing Matterport imagery, as described below.
Paid hosting does not automatically include:
New scans or recapturing the property.
Reversing existing blurs.
Major redesigns or additional tour development.
Ownership transfer or control of hosting accounts.
Hosting additional, separately priced tours.
Hosting arrangements may be renewed for additional periods at the applicable rates and agreed terms.
A business selecting standard Matterport hosting should not assume that the enhanced MPSkin version will remain available indefinitely.
Hosting Duration, Renewal & Availability
Paid annual hosting covers the selected tour version for 12 months, beginning on the agreed hosting start date.
Hosting does not automatically renew unless otherwise agreed in advance. At the end of the paid period, the arrangement may be renewed at the applicable rates. If it is not renewed, I reserve the right to archive or discontinue the hosted presentation.
Enhanced MPSkin hosting includes the underlying Matterport hosting necessary for the MPSkin presentation to function. Standard Matterport hosting does not include continued access to MPSkin enhancements.
Third-Party Platform Availability
Matterport, MPSkin, and Momento360 are third-party platforms. Although I will maintain the agreed hosting subscriptions during the paid period, I cannot guarantee uninterrupted access if a platform experiences outages, technical difficulties, or service disruptions beyond my control.
If a platform permanently discontinues a service necessary for the agreed hosting arrangement, I will work with the customer to identify a reasonable alternative where feasible, or provide a prorated refund for the unused portion of the hosting period if the agreed service can no longer be provided.
Is Additional Privacy Blurring Included?
Additional Privacy Blurring Is Included
Reasonable additional privacy blurring of existing Matterport imagery is included at no additional charge while I continue hosting the tour.
If something needs to be obscured for privacy or security reasons, I can apply additional blurs without a separate charge.
Examples include:
Faces or identifying details.
Security cameras and sensitive equipment.
Personal documents or computer screens.
Confidential information.
Other details that the property owner or authorized representative reasonably requests be obscured.
This includes ordinary privacy and security corrections, but not unlimited editing services. Extensive or repeated modification requests may require a separate arrangement.
Adding new blurs does not require reuploading the Matterport model. However, rescanning or removing previously applied blurs requires reuploading the model and redoing all existing Matterport edits. Consequently, those services are not included in annual hosting.
Although I make substantial efforts to identify privacy and security concerns before publication, I recommend that the property owner or an authorized representative carefully review the tour as well.
Why Aren't Rescanning and Removing Existing Blurs Included?
Matterport has an important limitation that makes certain modifications considerably more time-consuming than clients might expect.
Rescanning or Adding New Scans
Adding or replacing scans after a Matterport tour has been uploaded requires reuploading and reprocessing the model.
This creates a new Matterport model, meaning all previously completed Matterport edits must be redone, even if only one scan was added or replaced.
Removing Previously Applied Blurs
Once a blur has been applied and processed, it cannot simply be undone in the existing tour.
Removing it requires reuploading and reprocessing the original scan data, again creating a new model and requiring all Matterport edits to be recreated.
What Is Included?
Adding new privacy blurs to existing imagery does not require this process. Reasonable additional privacy blurring is therefore included with hosting.
However, rescanning, adding or replacing scans, and removing previously applied blurs are excluded from annual hosting because they require substantially more work.
Additional work may also be necessary to reconnect or update associated MPSkin presentations.
For these reasons, I strongly recommend carefully reviewing the completed tour before approving it for publication.
Can I Embed the Tour on My Website, and What About Google Maps?
Website Embedding
Yes. A hosted Matterport or MPSkin tour can be embedded on a compatible website.
The selected presentation must remain actively hosted for its embed to continue functioning.
Standalone Momento360 panoramas can also be embedded independently.
Google Maps Publication
When appropriate and authorized, I may separately publish connected 360° imagery to Google Maps.
This can allow people to explore locations directly through Google Maps, although its functionality differs from the full Matterport or MPSkin experience.
Google Maps publication is separate from the hosting arrangements described on this page.
Connected 360° imagery published to Google Maps may remain publicly accessible even after the underlying Matterport or MPSkin tour has been archived.
Publication, editing, and removal are subject to Google's systems and policies.
Hosting or publication does not automatically transfer ownership or account control of the original 3D tour.
Frequent Future Editing
While some future edits are to be expected, such as blurs that were missed, if heavy frequent editing is required, i.e., shifting the availability of an office space at a coworking space, something like that would be $5/edit if done by Adam, or $5/month if done by someone on your own staff where Adam could give you direct access to editing.
Partnership Hosting Options
Can Hosting Be Arranged Through a Partnership Instead of Payment?
Yes. I may offer branded or unbranded Matterport or MPSkin hosting in exchange for discounts, experiences, memberships, or other benefits that provide meaningful value to my real estate clients and, in some arrangements, to me personally.
These arrangements are individually negotiated and may be particularly suitable for:
Hotels and resorts.
Museums and historic attractions.
Recreational facilities and entertainment venues.
Country clubs and other membership organizations.
Businesses offering experiences, services, or admission-based activities.
Preferred Partnership Value
I generally favor partnership benefits that provide substantial, practical value to my real estate clients, particularly high-percentage or high-dollar discounts on experiences, attractions, accommodations, memberships, or other services.
I often prefer a limited number of substantial discounts over a large number of smaller promotional offers.
For example, a participating business might provide a particularly generous discount during a slower period, when additional visitors or customers would be especially welcome.
My goal is to create arrangements that offer meaningful savings to participating clients while remaining financially practical for the business.
Partnership benefits are evaluated individually, taking into account their potential savings, usefulness, redemption restrictions, expiration dates, and the business's cost of providing them.
The exact benefits and their approximate value are negotiated as part of each partnership arrangement.
Can Partnership Discounts Have Restrictions, and How Long Must They Last?
Yes. I'm open to substantial flexibility so businesses can offer meaningful benefits while controlling their costs.
Possible Restrictions
Discounts may be subject to agreed conditions, including:
Eligibility limited to first-time visitors or customers.
Blackout dates during holidays or particularly busy periods.
Higher discounts during slower periods and reduced discounts during peak periods.
A limited number of available redemptions.
One-time use per eligible client or household.
Advance reservations or availability requirements.
Different discounts depending on the experience, service, or membership level.
For example, a hotel might offer a particularly substantial discount during periods of low occupancy while offering a smaller discount during peak-demand periods.
Long-Term Discount Validity
As a general preference, I seek discounts that remain available for three to seven years after the calendar year in which the participating business first receives the agreed 3D tour or hosting benefit.
For example, if a business first receives the agreed benefit in 2026, the partnership discounts might expire on December 31 of a year between 2029 and 2033.
The expiration date is tied to when the participating business receives the benefit—not when an individual client receives real estate services, becomes eligible for a discount, or uses it.
This gives the business a defined expiration date while allowing eligible clients opportunities to use the discounts over an extended period.
The hosting commitment and discount validity period are separately negotiated. Renewing hosting does not automatically extend the original discount expiration date unless otherwise agreed.
Can Partnerships Include Memberships or Group-Visit Privileges?
Yes. Some businesses and organizations may find it easier or more beneficial to provide memberships or guest privileges instead of individual discount certificates.
Membership-Based Arrangements
For example, a museum might offer a membership that allows me to bring clients or other guests to the facility.
Depending on the agreement, benefits could include:
Individual or family memberships.
Memberships allowing accompanying guests.
Complimentary or discounted admission for eligible visitors.
Access to special exhibits, programs, or experiences.
Other mutually agreed benefits.
A membership with guest privileges may allow me to introduce multiple clients or groups to an organization over time.
First-Time Visitor Restrictions
Some participating businesses may prefer to limit promotional discounts to first-time visitors.
I'm generally open to that restriction for eligible clients.
However, when accompanying eligible clients or guests, I would ordinarily request an exception allowing me to return with the group even if I've visited previously.
For example, a museum might restrict client discounts to first-time visitors while allowing me to accompany qualifying groups on subsequent visits.
Any personal benefits, memberships, guest privileges, and exceptions would be specifically agreed upon.
Membership durations need not match the three-to-seven-year preference applicable to client discounts.
What Are the Partnership Approval, Disclosure, and Legal Requirements?
All proposed partnership arrangements are subject to review and approval by the principal or supervising broker at Garrett Realty Partners before taking effect.
Each arrangement would establish:
The hosted tours and selected presentation formats.
Whether branding is retained or removed.
The agreed hosting duration.
The discounts, memberships, or other benefits being provided.
The approximate value of those benefits.
Eligibility, redemption limits, and restrictions.
Benefit expiration dates.
Any personal or guest privileges.
How benefits will be issued and verified.
Applicable disclosure, approval, and consent requirements.
Broker Oversight & Legal Compliance
Any discounts, memberships, personal benefits, or other compensation must comply with applicable laws, real estate regulations, and professional ethical standards.
Where required, appropriate disclosures will be made and necessary written consents obtained before the benefits are accepted or provided.
Partnership approval is not automatic, and arrangements that cannot satisfy applicable requirements will not be offered.
These partnerships do not guarantee referrals, endorsements, client participation, or any particular amount of business.
Interested in a Partnership?
If you operate a hotel, museum, restaurant, sporting venue, entertainment venue, attraction, recreational facility, or another business with relocation or area amenity appeal and would like to explore a mutually beneficial arrangement, please contact me.
Questions or Hosting Arrangements
If you'd like to arrange annual hosting, discuss partnership opportunities, or request additional 3D documentation services, please contact me.
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