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★ WGAN Forms Library: Contracts, Releases and Invoices for Capture Pros

TomSparks

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2 monthsTomSparks (2036): Hi All, I added some more forms to the library! if there's something missing let me know and i'll work on adding it. tom

★ New Book: 101+ Use Cases for Creating a Digital Twin

TomSparks

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4 monthsMeidansha (1281): I will make a book review. Might take me awhile. I hope to get it to you after I get answer to your email template.

★ Stop Guessing on Your Quotes: Free WGAN 3D Tour Price Calculator

TomSparks

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6 monthsTomSparks (2036): @vrephoto HA! lucky guess. thanks! anything you'd like to see added? any constructive criticism? tom

Matterport Scan to BIM questions

aerialpixels

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4 hoursaerialpixels (485): Has anyone used the Matterport 'Add On' Scan to BIM service? My concerns and questions are 1) Is the revit files AI or human modelled? 2) In relation to above, how does it handle non typical architecture forms like a hindu temple? 3) Does it capture exterior architecture elements (exterior walls, windows, roof-where the pro3 can scan), or is it purely an interior-space BIM model. Thanks!

Matterport app update

Vanaman06

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6 hoursAggie903 (1): Absolutely!! Delays btw scans are way longer now. What’s going on?

What was the last virtual staging revision your client asked for?

roderick

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16 hoursPaintitAI_Team (1): Not a client delivery, but I hit a small-edit problem in a room mockup today: the new light rug was placed on top of the original patterned rug instead of replacing it. The chair color was right, so a quick glance would have missed it. One follow-up asking for a single rug across the whole original footprint fixed it. I’d compare each revision against both the source photo and the last accepted version, especially around furniture edges. A...

Giraffe360 Pro: Photo-Only Listing Shoot in 13:10

TomSparks

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1 dayTomSparks (2036): Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://wgan.info/giraffe360-forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-cPeWcirQ Giraffe360 Pro: Photo-Only Listing Shoot in 13:10 Published by: We Get Around Network | YouTube Hey All, I took the Giraffe360 Pro camera out on a real listing and shot photos only, no 3D tour, to see how it holds up against my normal workflow. The house is a 1,276 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 2 bath...

What Are You 3D Printing to Help With Your Photography or Capture Work?

TomSparks

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1 dayWingman (4831): I have been going to post it in my thread with 360rig with 4x Insta360 Ace Pro 2s but since you've asked about prints here it is. I will be offering it to anyone interested in three options(some variations possible): 1) One full rig completelly finished and assembled with all hardware apart from RTK Rover 2) Just a printed rig with SMA cables and a GNNS antenna 3) DIY or print it yourself as a digital file Colors will be slightly...

Scan to CAD Services for Matterport Pro3 and Realsee Galois P4 Scans?

TomSparks

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2 daysTomSparks (2036): Hi All, I've been doing a lot of scanning lately with both a Matterport Pro3 and a Realsee Galois P4, and I'm hearing the same thing from more and more clients: they want CAD deliverables, not just the virtual tour. The requests I'm getting include exterior and interior elevations, 2D floor plans in DWG, 3D models in DWG, and in some cases Revit files. Some of these clients are architects and contractors who plan to design...

Starting in Real Estate Photography: How Did You Build Your Portfolio?

lilnitsch

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3 daysron0987 (4030): I also forgot to include the Washington state taxes that now want to tax our Matterport work, photography and now tax the drone work with speciality licenses.

Scanning a trail

jimlapier

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3 daysjimlapier (16): @Sdoughtie Appreciate it, but we essentially lease the park for the duration of our run and get permission from the rangers / owners / etc whenever needed. The drone stuff usually helps with parking areas / open areas for our entry / village space, container placement (finding flat areas, etc) and determining light bleed in the evenings to surrounding neighborhoods / businesses. And yes, the scanning is overkill, but if I can create something...

Placed order for 3Dmakerpro Owl

ron0987

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3 daysron0987 (4030): @jimlapier great input thank you. Were you able to download the panos?

For Sale: XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro SLAM Scanner Complete Kit – $12,000

MatterFix

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4 daysMatterFix (693): MatterFix is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner and a Matterport Service Partner based in Gainesville, Florida. https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/207797894ef9bc48456ed2a1bcdf3d68.png XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro SLAM Scanner – Complete Kit – $12,000 We're selling our XGRIDS Lixel L2 Pro handheld SLAM LiDAR scanner as a complete, ready-to-work kit. If you've been wanting to add mobile reality capture to your...

What's New In Proptech: October 23, 2026

TomSparks

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6 daysTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/f4e3b862f64bb128315d787c1fe00edf.jpg Regulators on both sides of the border moved on AI-altered listing photos this week. The Washington, DC Council formally referred a bill that would require disclosure, unedited originals and a written description of changes, while Ontario's RECO issued AI guidance requiring labels on virtually staged and AI-modified images. Also this week: Real Brokerage...

Thank you Kevin Dole with Home3D.us, and…

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8 daysDanSmigrod (32613): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/339830f3c99a8e4228c486cf2ed2f6c2.jpgKevin Dole (left) and Dan Smigrod —- Thank you Kevin Dole with @Home3D (Home3D.us) for getting together for lunch in Santa Monica, CA for lunch. Exciting to meet up in real life after 10+ years of collaborating on episodes of WGAN-TV and countless posts in the We Get Around Network Forum. I am thankful that the WGAN Forum has enabled friendships...

Turn on text alerts: the Find a Pro map texts members about nearby jobs

TomSparks

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10 daysTomSparks (2036): The new WGAN Find a Pro map is live at map.wegetaroundnetwork.com and the first jobs have come through it. One of them taught us something worth a minute of your time. What happened A 65,000 square foot commercial Matterport Pro3 job came in marked ASAP. It went out to a dozen pros in that market within seconds. Not one of them had a mobile number on file, so not one of them got a text. The emails sat. Three hours later, one pro had...

Apple HomeView

lilnitsch

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10 dayslilnitsch (6874): Calendars would sync via the cloud ~ same network home view’s would act like an intercom which would also work with supported HomePods

ChatGPT CODEX video edit

lilnitsch

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10 dayslilnitsch (6874): @Dataventurer threw this together with a few stills using autorender.ai ~ I did cut in a little gate opening & a short drone clip just to round it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVjV3ty8NlQ

WGAN Find a Pro Map Is Live: New Menu Bar and Membership Plans

TomSparks

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12 daysVTLV (3039): Thank you for updating the map @TomSparks. I have a couple questions. Is there a way to distance myself from the blob of other pros? Looks like everyone is webbed into the Downtown district. As a standard member, will I be able to show up in 3 locations? Should I be patient and wait for some fine tuning or is there something I should do in the profile? Thank you.

What's New In Proptech: October 16, 2026

TomSparks

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13 daysTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/181fda3a394435c22801fcd38dfba8ca.jpg When a rental scammer steals a listing, what they are actually stealing is your photography. That is the asset that makes the fake ad convincing, and until now the photographer has usually been the last to find out and the least able to do anything about it. This week a statewide MLS started doing something about it. Also in this issue: free top-of-Google...

3dmaker Pro series

ron0987

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14 daysron0987 (4030): @SvenExenberger I appreciate the input. Actual use is important to me, there’s been too many videos to hype up the product, but reading threads like you pointed out, maybe great tool but no software makes it useless. I will wait to see on the new scanner.

Geo Week 2027 Program Announced: Gaussian Splats, SLAM, AI and More

TomSparks

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14 daysVREAgent (19): Tom, Attending: yes Most interested in two sessions, both Wednesday 3:30 MT, which is a problem: • Are Gaussian Splats Ready for Real Work? — Esri, Terrasolid, Vexcel and Trimble Applanix. Trimble fuses airborne and ground mobile mapping into one SLAM-constrained splat; Terrasolid shows splats inheriting LiDAR classification. • From Automated Capture to Spatial Agents (RCN track) — Esri’s GCP-free aerial + street-level registration producing...

Giraffe360: Content Studio, Zillow and the Gen 5 Camera

TomSparks

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15 daysTomSparks (2036): Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lBkoOXqYgY Giraffe360: Content Studio, Zillow and the Gen 5 Camera Published by: We Get Around Network | YouTube I sat down with Samy Jeffries, Chief Revenue Officer at Giraffe360, to talk about where this year's releases are heading. Giraffe360 just marked 10 years in business, and Samy frames the whole roadmap around one idea: one...

Smooth Movies similar to the give away matterport movies

SpencerLasky

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19 daysSpencerLasky (446): To match what matterport offers for free that style ? Which is smooth you need 3DGS? The beta does not yield the best results ?

Matterport’s new Video Maker in Beta

DigitalReplica3D

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19 daysDigitalReplica3D (302): @SpencerLasky Is this what you are looking for?

Insta360 X4 and X5 Won’t Connect to Zillow 3D Home App On Site: Any Ideas?

TomSparks

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19 dayslilnitsch (6874): @TomSparks The Z1 has a faster capture time compared the the theta X I have 3 Z1’s & a theta x that live in my camera bag & tend to hot swap cameras from shoot to shoot

What's New In Proptech: October 9, 2026

TomSparks

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20 daysTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/4218d3cea71661f38f95e0b5b50f7f30.jpg California's largest MLS sued Compass this week, one day before a deadline Compass had set demanding it stop fining agents who publicly market office-exclusive listings. That fight decides when a listing can be marketed before it hits the MLS, which decides when your media has to be done. Elsewhere, a Harvard-trained architect launched a staging tool...

Win a PMRE 2026 Ticket: Your Worst Editing Week

TomSparks

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20 daysodyssey3dinc (4): Alright. I got 2 for you and you decide. 1 regular that everyone will relate to and one pretty dramatic. Typical weekly volume :40-50 shoots Photo Editing - ESOFT Video Editing - European editors 1) So we had this big client recently - a set of premium retirement homes here in Toronto. They wanted photos for their website - so they couldn't just be regular real estate photos - they had to be more premium than that to represent the...

Matterport Pro3 Plus Package: $1,995 With a 24-Month Plan

TomSparks

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20 daysVREAgent (19): A fork is plausible: keep the Pro2/Pro3 line and the hosted Spaces for the installed base, and launch the splat camera as a separate product. The camera is the easy part, XGRIDS already ships one at $5K. The question is whether the new product arrives with new account terms or the old ones. Two practical questions for anyone who has read the Plus plan terms: can a Pro3 bought outright be deactivated for non-payment, or only units sold under...

Matterport Raises Prices for New Customers: 2,000+ Scan Points = 6 Spaces

Pedrotex69

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20 daysMeshImages (3362): @TomSparks - For me, the subscription price is only one part of the equation. I have both a Classic and a Legacy plan. I actively use SDK-based solutions such as MPskin, SIMLAB and MPEmbed, and I have invested more than ten years in this platform - building knowledge, workflows and practical tricks that a newcomer will not have on the first day. I have worked on hundreds of productions and explored thousands of spaces. And I know many other...

Insta360 Ace Pro: the best action cam and good for 3DGS and even 360

Wingman

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20 daysWingman (4831): A bit of fun update as it was taking me days and a lot of test prints to figure it out. All my prototype printing involved PLA which cannot be used in the final version of my rig. I knew from a start it should be ASA but I printed all parts with it only for my bathroom reno. It was not bad because they were really small like 40x40mm cubes. Then when I was close to start printing parts for my rig with ASA I hit "it shrinks like sh#t"...

OpenAI Dots: How I Used It to Clean Up My Inbox

TomSparks

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21 daysTomSparks (2036): I forgot to add... now I have it monitoring my inboxes each morning and giving me a summary of what I have to respond to when I first sit down at the desk. pretty awesome! what should I name my dot? the go to would be Jarvis.. but I need something unique.

Geo Week 2027: First Keynote Maps the Great Salt Lake

TomSparks

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21 daysTomSparks (2036): Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/ea5cae09f823d85a1b9e5fdc14fd0e61.jpg Image: USGS EROS imagery comparing the Great Salt Lake in 1987 and 2022 Geo Week 2027: First Keynote Maps the Great Salt Lake Geo Week has announced its first 2027 keynote, A Lake in Crisis: Mapping Utah's Great Salt Lake. It is a presentation and panel discussion on a large-scale ...

Giraffe360: Content Studio 4.0 Is Live

TomSparks

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22 daysTomSparks (2036): Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Giraffe360: Content Studio 4.0 Is Live Giraffe360 released Content Studio 4.0 today and calls it the biggest Content Studio update yet. The stated goal is to get you from "the listing media is ready" to "the listing campaign is ready" without leaving Giraffe360. I had a call with Samy Jeffries, the CRO at Giraffe360 that will be released on 10/13/26 where...

Would you deliver these multi-angle virtual staging photos to a client?

roderick

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22 daysroderick (16): @lilnitsch Sorry about that. I’ve enabled access now. Thanks

Made an in-browser player for .insv files

perica

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22 daysperica (10): Thanks! That's exactly what I use it for, checking footage on the fly. In short, an .insv file is a regular video file that holds both fisheye lenses, plus the camera's gyro readings and lens calibration stored at the end of the file. The page reads all of that in the browser. Your computer's (or phone's) hardware decodes the video, the graphics card stitches the two lenses into one 360 picture using the camera's own...

Matterport Pro3 Price Drop: Is a Pro4 Coming in 2027?

TomSparks

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24 daysTomSparks (2036): @VTLV I hear you. I think depending on the market you're in you'll have different experiences. I received 4 requests for as built scans (with a non leica price point) device (matterport, iguide, realsee, giraffe360) in the past week, in the San Francisco Bay Area. I think there's a segment of designers and some architects that are ok with the non leica level of quality and pricing. But I also know that others in other markets...

Looking for leads: Animated Landing Pages with Matterport / 3D Tours

rodrigocastillo

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25 daysHome3D (4415): @MeshImages - I am definitely looking into that "edge scrolling effect". In principle, it's so simple but so dramatic. Would seem like whatever you shoot, HD or 4K UHD, it would simply require setting it with a slight "enlargement" or "zoom-in" base setting, so the mouse movement has a little extra 'overscan' room to roam. So clever. Gotta probe this.

WGAN at Visual 1st 2026: Pixels, Prompts, and Property

TomSparks

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26 daysTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/43957b9d4566bf4e5dd6715887c8c7fe.jpg WGAN at Visual 1st 2026: Pixels, Prompts, and Property Event: Visual 1st 2026, 14th annual edition | KQED, San Francisco | September 29 to 30, 2026 Session: Speed Insights | Wednesday, September 30 | Pixels, Prompts, and Property: The AI & Visual Tech Revolution in Real Estate On stage: Tom Sparks, CEO, WGAN Holdings Inc. and Publisher &...

Matterport Scanning Orientation

rhelling

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26 daysHome3D (4415): Simple procedure to follow so that the minimap orientation is set conveniently for the iPad or phone screen. The orientation of the minimap in a MP scan is set in stone by the first scan you capture. Good news, if you don't like the first scan's orientation, just delete it and do a second one. When setting up to capture a space, assess which direction is the "longest" whether north-south or east west across the building...

What's New In Proptech: October 2, 2026

TomSparks

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27 daysTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/af409c71d60ba90ba5f612f73822daa2.jpg New research says more than 90 percent of AI-altered listing photos on the major US portals carry no disclosure at all - and the single most common alteration is sky replacement, which describes a routine step in most of our workflows. That is the story of the week, and it lands squarely on this community rather than on the portals. Elsewhere, CubiCasa and...

Zillow 3D Home Tour App Settings & Use for Beginner

WendyM

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28 daysWendyM (7): @lilnitsch, thank you for sharing this screenshot. That is VERY helpful. Yes, I have the same cell service issue. It is good to hear; I can absolutely just upload when I get a good connection.

Zillow Home Tour vs Matterport 3D Tour - same property

Home3D

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28 daysWendyM (7): @lilnitsch Wow... Beautiful!

Zillow 3D Home Tours ~ Issue uploading your 3D tour

lilnitsch

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28 dayslilnitsch (6874): 2 tours shot today and things seem to be processing quickly again

How I Used Claude (AI) to Transfer 114 Matterport Spaces — Hands-Free

TomSparks

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28 daysGladsmuir (854): @meidansha The joys of living in a country where people are polite and offer you a card. I know it is a whole ritual in Japan, but boy that is such a smart way to optimise the data, or information as we used to say. 😜 Oliver

New to the WGAN Forum? Please introduce yourself

DanSmigrod

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1 monthTomSparks (2036): @Casey_Clark a little late replying here.. but Welcome Casey!

What's New In Proptech: September 25, 2026

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (2036): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/d2087d786375a573b71b5d5b1db24196.jpg After six weeks of waiting, Insta360 has set a US launch date for Spatial Capture: Monday, September 28. Gaussian splatting from a 360 video, generated in a phone app, working on the X5 and X4 Air as well as the X6 - and Insta360 is including four free scene generations per month. That is the most accessible 3DGS workflow this industry has seen, and most of...

How many staged views of the same room do your clients actually order?

roderick

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1 monthroderick (16): @Dataventurer This is incredibly helpful. Thank you for sharing the real-world example. What I’m taking away is that multi-view staging doesn’t necessarily need to be used everywhere. One staged view may be enough for bedrooms and bathrooms, while the real value is in larger or connected living spaces — living/dining areas, kitchens, family rooms, etc. And your last point really stands out to me. At $10 per photo, spending time on 20 or 30...

Giraffe360: Drone Capture for 3D Gaussian Splats

TomSparks

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1 monthAmy (105): Adding a shameless promotion here! 👋 We built Kitchen so people like the WGAN community can help shape the features that move the industry forward. It’s completely free to join, and you don’t need to be a Giraffe user to try it. All we ask for in return is your honest feedback. So if you like getting your hands on new features early, testing new tech and having the companies building it actually listen to what you think, give Kitchen a...

WTB: Matterport Pro3 (working, with case)

VREAgent

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1 monthMatterFix (693): At MatterFix, we have them for $3400 with a 2 yr warranty. https://matterfix-io.myshopify.com/collections/all