MongoDB London Office Virtual Tour: A Matterport Digital Twin For Better Remote Access
When your teams, contractors or international colleagues need to understand an office before visiting in person, photos are not always enough.
MongoDB wanted a practical digital version of its London office that could help different teams access, understand and discuss the workspace remotely. The goal was not just to showcase the office visually, but to make it easier to support operations, maintenance planning, contractor collaboration and staff orientation.
360 View created a Matterport Digital Twin of the office, capturing the reception, meeting rooms, work areas, kitchen, relaxation spaces and key routes through the workspace in one connected 3D experience.
The result was a useful digital asset that helped MongoDB make the office easier to explore, manage and share with people who needed access to the space before arriving in person.
When Photos And Floor Plans Are Not Enough
If you manage an office, you already know how difficult it can be to explain a space clearly to someone who is not there.
A floor plan can show the layout, but it does not always show how the space feels or how areas connect in real life. Photos can show individual rooms, but they often miss the full journey between reception, work areas, meeting rooms, service spaces and shared facilities.
A virtual tour gives people a more complete understanding.
They can move through the office online, look around each area, understand how rooms connect and use the same visual reference when discussing the space with colleagues, contractors or external teams.
For MongoDB, this made the office easier to access remotely and easier to communicate about.
Virtual Tour Supporting Operations And Maintenance Teams
One of the main reasons for creating the tour was to support the teams responsible for managing and maintaining the office.
With a Matterport Digital Twin available online, internal teams could review areas remotely, check room layouts, discuss access points and share visual context before arranging a visit.
This is valuable when teams need to plan maintenance work, explain an issue, prepare a contractor or review a space without sending someone to the office unnecessarily.
For many businesses, this can reduce repeated explanations, extra photo requests and avoidable site visits. It also gives everyone a clearer starting point before work is planned or discussed.
Helping Contractors Understand The Office Before They Arrive
Contractors often need to understand a space before they can plan work properly.
Where is the room? How do you access it? What is around it? Is there enough space to work? Are there obstacles, furniture, doors, corridors or shared areas that need to be considered?
A virtual tour can answer many of these questions before anyone travels to site.
For MongoDB, the tour created a simple way to give contractors and external teams a clearer view of the office environment. Instead of relying only on written descriptions or separate images, teams could share one connected visual reference.
This helps contractors arrive better prepared and helps internal teams communicate with more accuracy.
Helping International Teams Prepare Before Visiting
For international teams, visiting an office in another country can involve more planning.
People may want to understand where they are going, what the space looks like, where key areas are located and how the office is organised before they arrive.
The MongoDB office virtual tour helped support this by giving staff and visitors a way to familiarise themselves with the workspace in advance.
This can be useful for international colleagues, new starters, remote teams, visiting managers and anyone attending the office for the first time.
When people can explore the space before arrival, the office feels less unfamiliar and easier to navigate.
A Shared Visual Reference For Different Teams
The real value of a virtual tour is not only that people can “look around” online.
Its stronger value is that different teams can use the same digital version of the space for different needs.
Operations teams can use it to discuss the office internally.
Maintenance teams can use it to review areas before arranging work.
Contractors can use it to understand the space before attending.
International staff can use it to familiarise themselves before travelling.
Managers can use it to support planning, communication and remote access.
This makes the tour useful beyond marketing. It becomes a practical spatial reference that can support the way the office is managed and used.
Captured Without Disrupting The Working Day
The office was captured during a weekend to avoid disrupting normal working activity.
This allowed the space to be scanned while it was quiet, clear and easier to document properly. It also helped create a cleaner final result, with fewer people, fewer temporary obstructions and fewer interruptions during capture.
For active offices, weekend or out-of-hours scanning is often the best approach. It allows the space to be captured professionally while reducing disruption for staff and day-to-day operations.
Why This Matters For Offices Across Europe
The same challenge applies to many offices across Europe.
Whether your workspace is in London, Barcelona, Lisbon, Bucharest or another European city, your teams may need a better way to understand the office without always being there in person.
This is especially useful if your business works across multiple countries, manages hybrid teams, coordinates contractors remotely or regularly welcomes international staff and visitors.
A Matterport Digital Twin can make your office easier to access, understand and discuss from anywhere. It gives people a clearer view of the space before they travel, plan work or make decisions.
The Result For MongoDB
The finished MongoDB office virtual tour created a practical digital version of the workspace.
It helped make the office easier to access remotely, easier to understand before arrival and easier to discuss between internal teams, maintenance teams and contractors.
For MongoDB, the value was not only in showing what the office looked like. The tour became a useful operational tool, supporting collaboration, planning, orientation and workplace accessibility.
Need Remote Access To Your Office, Wherever It Is In Europe?
If your teams, contractors or international colleagues need to understand your office before visiting in person, a virtual tour can make the process much easier.
360 View creates Matterport Digital Twins and office virtual tours for corporate workspaces across Europe, helping organisations make their physical spaces easier to access, manage and share remotely.
Whether your goal is to support facilities management, reduce unnecessary site visits, help contractors understand a space or prepare staff before they arrive, we can help you choose the right capture approach.
Tell us about your office and we’ll help you plan the best way to capture it.
