Start with the job you need the experience to do. A 360° panorama lets people look around a viewpoint; a 3D tour helps them understand a place and move between viewpoints. A connected digital twin can go further by reflecting changes in a physical asset. WEDO’s public examples demonstrate captured spaces, hosted tours and interactive experiences. Their names do not imply live data integration or engineering simulation.
From a viewpoint to a place
A panorama shows the surroundings of a capture position. Connected viewpoints let visitors follow a route through a venue. A model view can add context about rooms or structures. Check the actual project for movement controls, model views or measurement tools; a label such as “720°” or “3D” is not a feature specification.
A model is only part of the picture
In an operational context, a digital twin connects a digital representation with information about its physical counterpart. IBM’s overview describes this relationship through ongoing data. A captured tour is useful in its own right, but it will not automatically reflect tomorrow’s renovations, equipment temperatures or visitor activity.
Choose by purpose
For a preview of a shop, assess navigation and the mobile experience. For remote discussions about a venue, identify the details that must be visible. Monitoring, simulation or verified dimensions require a separate brief covering data sources, accuracy and update frequency, followed by confirmation of the implementation scope.
Inspect a real example
The HOYA salon tour offers an example of exploring a layout. The LaLaport chapel project presents the structure as captured at that time. Look for entrances, adjacent areas and useful details. These public examples do not include evidence of operational or conversion improvements, so we do not infer those outcomes.
Four questions for your brief
Ask what visitors need to see, which controls they need, whether delivery means a hosted link or files, and who owns hosting and updates. Avoid commissioning extra systems simply for a label. Equally, a viewing link is not a complete response to a requirement for live operational data.
Next: make the requirements concrete
Prepare the area to cover, audience, hosting period and essential functions. Open a sample tour and identify what you would keep or change. That produces a more useful discussion and more comparable proposals than asking for a digital twin without defining the expected result.
A quick commissioning checklist
- Do you need viewpoints, spatial relationships or continuously updated data?
- Is the deliverable a link, files or a validated system capability?
- Which features have been demonstrated and which remain unconfirmed?