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Four campuses, four different reasons.
Published January 25, 2025 · Updated July 19, 2026
More prospective students research a campus online before ever visiting it, in person or with parents, than at any point before. A walkable 3D tour answers a different question than a photo gallery does: not just "what does the building look like," but "what's it actually like to be there."
Four real campuses, four different reasons
St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore: a century-old campus, classrooms, library, the historic buildings themselves. A walkable tour lets a prospective family get a real sense of a heritage campus before a physical visit, especially useful for anyone applying from outside the city.
Good Shepherd International School, Ooty: the school chapel, alongside the outdoor campus grounds. As a boarding school drawing families from across India and abroad, a spatial record of the chapel specifically also functions as something alumni can return to remotely, long after leaving.
Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad: a full campus tour for a newer, specialized institution, where prospective students are often evaluating multiple graduate programs at once and may never get to visit every one in person before deciding.
Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore: the Collaborative Innovation Center specifically, a lab space tied to a student engineering project, where showing the actual equipment and layout matters more than a generic campus shot would.
What this actually supports, beyond a virtual open house
To be clear about scope: the following is what a campus scan can support in principle, not a list of services delivered on the four projects above.
Mattertags can hold supplementary material directly inside a lab or specialized space, useful for remote orientation before a first physical visit. A dimensionally accurate scan can also support a facilities team's own space planning, and can be used to walk through emergency egress routes or spot accessibility barriers in a walkthrough rather than only on a drawing. None of that has been delivered as a formal service on these four campuses. It's a real capability of the underlying data, clearly separated from what's actually been done.
Before you ask
Worth knowing.
Is this only useful for prospective-student recruitment?
Recruitment is the most common use, but the same scan can support a facilities team's own space planning and accessibility review. Possible with the data, though not something formally delivered as a separate service on these projects.
Does a campus need to shut down for the scan?
No. Capture is usually scheduled around low-occupancy hours rather than requiring a closure.
Is student or staff privacy protected during capture?
Yes. Faces and identifiable documents are blurred in the finished tour as standard practice.
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