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Video: Shop Talk 63: A New Era for As-Built Documentation | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 6 March 2025


Screen Grab showing Matterport + SIMLAB STAGES Split-Screen View Demo (Shout-out: 16:21 and Demo at: 17:53)

HGTV Star Anthony Carrino is Gaga Over Matterport + SIMLAB STAGES on Matterport Webinar

Hi All,

Fun to see HGTV Co-Host Anthony Carrino of Kitchen Cousins, Cousins On Call, Cousins Undercover and America's Most Desperate Kitchens go gaga over Matterport + SIMLAB STAGES for the side-by-side views and timeline features during this (above) Matterport Shop Talk #63 on Wednesday, 5 March 2025.

✓ See Anthony's Matterport + SIMLAB STAGES shout-out at: 16:21
✓ See Anthony's Matterport + SIMLAB STAGES Side-by-Side demo at: 17:53

SIMLAB website: www.SIMLABinc.com
SIMLAB STAGES Microsite: www.SIM-ON.com

This Matterport Shop Talk episode focused on: A New Era for As-Built Documentation is Hosted by Matterport Senior Staff Product Education Manager Amir Frank with guests:

✓ Anthony Carrino, owner of Anthony Carrino Design & Consulting (and HGTV Co-Host)
✓ Matthew Byrd, CEO of the Reality Capture Network

The webinar covered efficiency and innovation in streamlining the as-built documentation process and collaborate on project milestones.

Your thoughts?

Best,

Dan

Transcript of Segment at 16:21

[Anthony Carrino]

What I talked about initially was the first part of my workflow because the second part of my workflow is very much a virtual tour. But the interesting thing now that I am so comfortable with Matterport and bring it with me everywhere I scan a job, I have the as purchased, I have the post demolition, I have the post rough construction, and then I have a finished model.

So for those who aren't familiar, there's the [SIMLAB] STAGES project, excuse me, stages product where you can put a finished model and a rough construction model next to each other and they move in sync with each other.

So I have a customer that two, three years down the line, maybe two, three years is too short, but they want to do some kind of renovation where they have a repair to do, where they need to know what's in a wall.

Well, I can sync these two models next to each other and we can point the camera at finish walls, and we basically have x-ray vision. I know where every pipe and wire is to the millimeter, no, but I know what bay it's in and that's all that matters for my level of work.

So we can avoid unintended damage before it ever becomes a thing. And having that ability to virtually step forward and backward through time is so, I mean, I know it from being in the industry, but when customers ask a question and I put that in front of them, they're just like, oh my God, having this data is just, it's incredible.

[Amir Frank]

So this is what we're looking at. This is STAGES.

[Anthony Carrino]

So this is what we're looking at. This is stages. Speaker 4 (18:26): Yeah. So we're actually looking at my home. This is obviously on the right, my finished model, this was post demolition on the left, but if I click over to Rough Construction, then you're going to be able to see all the framing, the rock wall and the walls, and then depending on what side of the wall we're on, you'll be able to see the pecs and the PVC. I've got all my radiant heat, so you're able to see absolutely everything. I'm going to pop over to the bathroom just so you can see valves.

[Amir Frank]

So during the scanning process, Anthony, it looks like you almost have the identical scan position.

[Anthony Carrino]

Is that something you might just be dumb luck because this product didn't even exist when I scanned this home, I actually, through you guys, I gave all these models to the [SIMLAB] STAGES guys so they could use it to make sure everything was working. You do not need to have the same scan points. What you do when you set this up is you grab an X, Y, and Z point within the model and you do the same X, same Y, and same Z in both models. And then it does its technology magic stuff, and it all just works.

[Amir Frank]

It snaps it in. And if you go to one scan position that isn't perfectly aligned with another one in the other model, it finds the closest match.

[Anthony Carrino]

So these look similar, but they're different. Here's a perfect example. I don't have one right here on the finished model, but it still puts me in the same spot in the finished model. Pretty great stuff.

[Amir Frank]

That's awesome. Yeah, that's really cool.