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Immersive 3D tours for any property or venue
Matterport 3D scanning, bespoke 360° tours, and Google Street View — for residential, commercial, hospitality, and heritage clients. UK-wide coverage, overseas on request.
Matterport & 360 Virtual Tours in Reading & Berkshire
Tours for Thames Valley offices, Berkshire hotels, showrooms and schools. Two completed Berkshire projects on this page, with travel included in the price.
Berkshire is two markets sharing a county boundary. Along the M4 there is one of the busiest office corridors in the country, running from Slough and Maidenhead through Reading out to Newbury, where corporate tenants shortlist buildings on a screen weeks before anyone books a viewing. Then, often within a few miles of the same junction, there is the river and the countryside, with hotels, pubs with rooms and event venues that sell a setting as much as a space. Virtual tours earn their money in both, for opposite reasons: the office needs to prove it works, and the venue needs to prove it feels right.
I am based in Somerset, and Berkshire is a straightforward run along the M4, which is why travel is inside the quoted price rather than bolted on afterwards. Two of the Berkshire projects I have completed are on this page and you can walk through both of them: a Matterport scan of Hurley House Hotel and its garden pavilion, and a Google Street View tour of Forefront in Reading. They are deliberately different formats, because they were solving different problems. This work is part of my virtual tour services across the UK, and the Thames Valley is one of the areas I travel to most.
The practical difference between a good tour and a wasted one is usually planning rather than kit. A hotel gets scanned in a window when there is no function on, working room by room so nothing is shut off for long. An office is normally early morning or a weekend, so desks are clear and nobody appears in frame. A showroom is scanned around stock movements, because a half-empty display looks worse in a tour than it does in a photograph. None of that costs extra, it simply needs deciding when the date is booked.
If you are weighing up whether a tour is worth it, the useful question is not how impressive it looks but how many pointless viewings it removes. For a Thames Valley office that number is usually significant, because a tenant who has walked the floor plate online and measured a meeting room either arrives genuinely interested or does not arrive at all. For a venue, the equivalent saving is the enquiry that would have taken three emails of questions about layout and instead takes one.
Who Uses Virtual Tours in Berkshire?
Six types of Berkshire client who commission this work, and the specific problem a tour solves for each.
Hotels, pubs with rooms & event venues
Berkshire hospitality sells two things at once, the room and the setting. A corporate booker looking at a garden pavilion for forty people wants to know the ceiling height, where the bar sits and how the room connects to the terrace. My Matterport scan of Hurley House Hotel and its garden pavilion was commissioned for exactly that conversation, and it is embedded further down this page.
Offices & Thames Valley business parks
The corridor along the M4 from Slough through Maidenhead and Reading to Newbury is one of the densest office markets outside London, and tenants shortlist by video call long before they drive anywhere. A tour with a floorplan and a measurement tool answers the fit-out questions that otherwise consume a first viewing.
Serviced & flexible workspace
Flexible workspace turns over tenants constantly, which means the same space gets marketed several times a year. A tour is the one asset that keeps working through all of it, and a Street View tour published to Google Maps also puts the interior in front of people searching for space near a specific station.
Showrooms & retail
Showrooms in Reading, Bracknell and along the A4 hold stock that customers plan a trip around. A tour with hotspots on individual products lets someone browse the floor at eleven at night, and it makes the drive feel worth committing to rather than speculative.
Schools & colleges
Berkshire has a strong independent and boarding sector recruiting well beyond the county, and often internationally. A tour lets a family in another country walk a boarding house and a science block before an open day they may never be able to attend. There is a dedicated page covering how those shoots are handled.
Property marketing & new build
Riverside homes around Henley, Hurley and Sonning attract buyers who are relocating rather than moving down the road, so the first viewing is frequently remote. A Matterport scan with a floorplan does more for those buyers than another set of stills, because it lets them understand how the house is actually arranged.
Some of those sectors have their own pages with more detail on how the shoots are run: hotel photography, wedding venue photography and education virtual tours.
Berkshire Tours I Have Built
Two completed Berkshire projects in two different formats. Walk through both below.
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Matterport, hospitalityHurley House Hotel & Garden Pavilion — A Matterport scan of the hotel and its garden pavilion in Hurley, near Maidenhead. The pavilion is the room that sells events, so the tour was built to let a booker walk from the entrance through to the terrace and judge the space for a wedding or a company day without a site visit.
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Google Street View, commercialForefront, Reading — A Street View tour of a Reading commercial office, published to Google Maps so it sits with the business listing rather than only on the website. Anyone searching for the company or the building can step inside from the search result.
Virtual Tour Pricing in Berkshire
The same prices I charge anywhere in the UK, with travel to Berkshire included rather than added later.
Matterport 3D
From £249
Hosting £99/year after year one
- Accurate lidar 3D scan
- Dollhouse & floorplan views
- Measurement tool
- Rightmove & Zoopla compatible
- Fast to produce
Bespoke 360
From £449
No hosting fees, you own it outright
- Custom branded interface
- Interactive hotspots & video
- Handles multi-floor venues
- Kiosk mode available
- No recurring platform cost
Google Street View
From £269
No hosting fees
- Published to Google Maps
- Attaches to your Business Profile
- Strong for local search
- Ideal for showrooms & retail
- No ongoing cost
Booked alongside a photography shoot a Matterport tour is £150 rather than £249, since the travel and setup are already covered. If you are unsure which format fits, the format comparison sets out the trade-offs, or and I will tell you what I would do.
What Virtual Tour Clients Say
Feedback from virtual tour projects across the UK
Berkshire Virtual Tours, FAQs
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