– Would you like to see a demo of the Matterport Merge Tool?– For this Matterport merge, how about using a massive space: a baseball stadium with seven Matterport tours with a combined total of 745 scan points?Watch a special edition of the WGAN-TV Podcast (above) for digital twin creators shaping the future of real estate today.We have a great “how-to” episode for you!Our WGAN-TV Podcast Co-Host is Tom Sparks (Founder and CEO,
– Would you like to see a demo of the Matterport Merge Tool?
– For this Matterport merge, how about using a massive space: a baseball stadium with seven Matterport tours with a combined total of 745 scan points?
Watch a special edition of the WGAN-TV Podcast (above) for digital twin creators shaping the future of real estate today.
We have a great “how-to” episode for you!
Our WGAN-TV Podcast Co-Host is Tom Sparks (Founder and CEO, ScanYourSpace — a division of Sparks Media Group). Tom shows and tells how to use the Matterport Merge Tool. Tom uses scans from Oracle Park — home of the San Francisco Giants.
In this episode, Tom:
✓ Walks through selecting and merging 7 separate tours into a single, massive stadium model (and then more scans)
✓ Demonstrates manual alignment when auto align falls short
✓ Shares challenges like space limits, partial scans, and construction blockages
✓ Explains his staged merging process to manage large scan counts
✓ Reveals tips for handling big, complex projects with the Matterport Merge Tool
Takeaway Quote
“Merging big models is part patience, part puzzle-solving — and a little bit of luck when the auto align actually works.” — Tom Sparks
Connect
✓ Connect with Tom at www.SparksMediaGroup.com or www.ScanYourSpace.com
✓ Post your questions for Tom in the We Get Around Network Forum: www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com
✓ Subscribe to the Sparks Media Group YouTube Channel: @SparksMediaGroup" target="_blank">@SparksMediaGroup
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Tom, thank you for the behind-the-scenes look at tackling a massive Matterport merge!
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Transcript (video above)
– Would you like to see a demo of the Matterport Merge Tool?
– For this Matterport merge, how about using a massive space: a baseball stadium with seven Matterport tours with a combined total of 745 scan points?
Stay tuned.
Hi All, I am the digital twin of Dan Smigrod, Founder of the We Get Around Network Forum. You're watching a special edition of the WGAN-TV Podcast for digital twin creators shaping the future of real estate today.
We have a great "how to" episode for you!
Our WGAN-TV Podcast guest is Tom Sparks, Founder and CEO of ScanYourSpace, a division of Sparks Media Group. To demo the Matterport Merge Tool, Tom uses scans from Oracle Park: the home of the San Francisco Giants.
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Hey everybody, Tom Sparks with Sparks Media Group here.
In this Matterport Merge Tool video, we’re going to attempt to merge a bunch of scans I did a couple of years ago at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
I was hired to scan the stadium—or at least portions of it—for a client. At the time, I presented them with a bunch of individual tour links, but now I’m going to try to combine all of these together.
We’ll start by selecting the tours we want to merge. I’m hoping there’s enough overlap data to make this work. I have seven of them selected, totaling 745 scan points.
The limit is 2,000 scan points, so we’re well under. I’m not sure why I separated the tours originally, but I think it was because they didn’t want to scan all the spaces in between. Let’s try merging.
The system is already doing a decent job. I can see an Oracle suite that’s not aligned correctly, so I’ll move that. The cove is in the wrong spot, so I’ll move that too. The club level looks good, as does the deck, although I accidentally moved it and had to undo.
This is a pretty big scan, so I’m going to try auto align. It only lets me align two models at a time. I try a couple of combinations, but the auto align isn’t working well.
I start referencing specific locations like the Alaska Airlines Loft and Oracle suite level to place things manually. The size of the project makes positioning tricky, and the auto align feature isn’t finding enough common data.
I decided to proceed with merging anyway. Since I’m out of available spaces on my account, I archive the originals to free up space, hoping the merge will still work.
Some of my other scans are still pending because I’ve hit my space limit. If this merge works, I’ll add more models to create one big tour.
The merged tour comes back with 745 scan points, and it looks good overall. There are a few gaps because I couldn’t scan certain parts of the field due to construction or because the client didn’t need them.
I start adding more tours, like the promenade patio and dugout box, aligning them manually when needed.
The auto align works sometimes but fails other times, requiring fine-tuning. I continue with the Legends Club, Candlestick Club, and other spaces, snapping them into place when possible.
My approach is to merge in stages—adding a few tours at a time, archiving them once merged, and repeating the process. I add Scoreboard Plaza and Suite 60, aligning them carefully. Once aligned, I merge the models and archive the originals.
Within 24 hours, the new merge is ready with 804 scan points.
The system shows the most recent three tours used for the merge but doesn’t list all previous ones, which is fine. Matterport has a new logo that reminds me of a recycling symbol, though I’m not sure how I feel about it.
Looking at the completed model, I still wish I’d been able to scan a few missing areas.
The stadium had a hard stop time, and the client didn’t require those spaces. At one point, the field crew asked me to leave because they hadn’t been notified I’d be scanning that day.
Despite these limitations, the merged tour covers a huge area. It wasn’t for marketing, so I appear in several shots—sometimes intentionally, sometimes not—like a game of “Where’s Waldo.” Matterport even blurred one shot where my face was visible.
In this video, I’ve shown how I merged the majority of my scans from Oracle Park into one massive tour.
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Thanks Tom.
Got follow-up questions for Tom?
Go to www.SparksMediaGroup.com or www.ScanYourSpace.com or post your questions to the We Get Around Network Forum at: www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com
Also, subscribe to the Sparks Media Group YouTube Channel: @SparksMediaGroup
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