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

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (2018): 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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3 monthsMeidansha (1278): 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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5 monthsTomSparks (2018): @vrephoto HA! lucky guess. thanks! anything you'd like to see added? any constructive criticism? tom

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

roderick

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35 minutesroderick (7): @lilnitsch Thanks for sharing your real experience. That's exactly the kind of challenge I've been trying to solve with Stage Adjoining Rooms. I actually just finished staging the photos you shared earlier, so this is a great opportunity to get your perspective. I'd love to hear what you think, especially about the consistency across the kitchen, dining, and living areas. And putting consistency aside for a moment,...

ChatGPT CODEX video edit

lilnitsch

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4 hoursron0987 (4018): @lilnitsch Thanks for sharing nice work.

Smooth Movies similar to the give away matterport movies

SpencerLasky

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3 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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3 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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3 dayslilnitsch (6841): @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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3 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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3 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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4 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

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4 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

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4 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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4 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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5 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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5 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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5 daysroderick (7): @lilnitsch Sorry about that. I’ve enabled access now. Thanks

Made an in-browser player for .insv files

perica

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6 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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7 daysTomSparks (2018): @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

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9 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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10 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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10 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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10 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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12 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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12 daysWendyM (7): @lilnitsch Wow... Beautiful!

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

lilnitsch

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12 dayslilnitsch (6841): 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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12 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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17 daysTomSparks (2018): @Casey_Clark a little late replying here.. but Welcome Casey!

What's New In Proptech: September 25, 2026

TomSparks

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17 daysTomSparks (2018): 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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17 daysroderick (7): @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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19 daysAmy (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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19 daysMatterFix (690): At MatterFix, we have them for $3400 with a 2 yr warranty. https://matterfix-io.myshopify.com/collections/all

How Do You Quote a 500,000 Square Foot Scan-to-BIM Job?

TomSparks

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20 daysTomSparks (2018): How Do You Quote a 500,000 Square Foot Scan-to-BIM Job? An email comes in asking for a quote on high accuracy 3D laser scanning and scan-to-BIM. Interior and exterior, registered point cloud converted into a Revit model. The sizes floated were 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 and 500,000 square feet. That is the kind of inquiry a lot of us get once or twice a year, and it is the kind that is easy to get badly wrong in either direction. Here is...

You scan, I review: $8,000. Does your price list look like this?

TomSparks

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21 daysMeidansha (1278): "Rescue jobs"? (lol). I have had three in the last 12 months. I am so glad that these platforms always say "it's easy" when they sell a pricy 12 month subscription to my new clients (haha). Seriously, it is easy if you have ever used the old technology so know what its limitations are. Selling a doctor a new machine with that line works because he spent six years studying medicine. My rescue jobs earnt me a whole heap...

Roomio Floor Plans: Can You Scan with an iPhone?

TomSparks

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21 daysTomSparks (2018): Roomio is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Roomio Floor Plans: Can You Scan with an iPhone? If you're looking for a phone-based floor plan scanner for real estate listings, Roomio is one option worth examining. The workflow is straightforward: scan the property in the Roomio iPhone app, choose a floor plan style and branding, submit the order, and download the finished plan when it's ready. Roomio says its team...

ChatGPT

lilnitsch

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21 daysTomSparks (2018): All.. take a look at this thread if you haven't seen it. Would you deliver these multi-angle virtual staging photos to a client?

Giraffe360 Opens The Kitchen for Public Testing

TomSparks

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24 daysTomSparks (2018): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/87246db1e5d2a1af04e8ef17a4ceecf7.jpg Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Giraffe360 Kitchen: AI Property Marketing Experiments Published by: We Get Around Network Giraffe360 has opened a public sandbox called The Kitchen, and it is worth ten minutes of your time this week. It's a place where the Giraffe360 team puts early experiments in front of real users...

What's New In Proptech: September 18, 2026

TomSparks

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24 daysTomSparks (2018): Thanks @daviddemilo The future is 3DGS... there's some scanners out that are affordable... i've been eyeing the Pocket 3D Take a peek at it. I think Costar/Zillow are still at a standoff unfortunately. I haven't heard anything new since their last round of fighting. Yeah, here in CA we have AB723 that passed. Sounds similar to your MLS rules in Idaho.

Japan VR Case Study

Meidansha

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25 daysMeidansha (1278): Please post that on the forum @Gladsmuir, I’m looking for case studies to try in Japan

Real Estate Photography Pricing: 2 Things to Check on Yours

TomSparks

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25 daysMeidansha (1278): I would love to hear about the residential some time. I have been thinking about what to do if and when I invest in my subcontractor's business and need to scale it to feed two families!

A virtual tour of an apartment based solo on architectural drawings.

mrtn01

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25 daysTomSparks (2018): @mrtn01 Great question, and yes, it's possible today. It just can't be done from a single prompt in a general-purpose AI like ChatGPT or Claude. It takes a specialized pipeline, and the right one depends on how accurate the tour needs to be. Dedicated plan-to-tour services are the closest match to what your client is asking for. Getfloorplan accepts floor plans as DWG, JPG, PNG, or PDF files and turns them into 3D floor plans, 360...

What a $400 Shoot Actually Costs You

TomSparks

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26 daysTomSparks (2018): Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocr0s7TmVLM Ask a real estate photographer what a shoot costs them and almost every answer you get back is a price. That's a $400 shoot. I charged $800 for that. Those are revenue numbers, and revenue and cost sit on opposite sides of the ledger. So I built the cost model for my own business, filled in every line, and then used it to look at...

Which SLAM Scanner Are You Buying or Watching?

TomSparks

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27 daysTomSparks (2018): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/9749d449777035f2680091f4d03c5d27.jpg I have been watching the SLAM scanner category get crowded fast, and I want a read on where this community actually sits right now. A few years ago the conversation was basically Leica BLK2GO versus NavVis, and the price of entry kept most of us on the sidelines. That is no longer the case. Buying guides now put the handheld range at roughly 15K on the...

Matterport Pro Wanted: Red Bluff, CA *Pro3*

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28 daysIFTI_Lindsey (987): IFTI PROVision has Help Wanted Privileges in the WGAN Forum | Text Me When a Help Wanted Post Appears in the WGAN Forum --- https://e3effa51eee72fd900e3-2fb779bd12ec72d4612275342f2c9187.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/caa2a9be5d688037c5ac8e0695bc94d1.png IFTI/PROvision Solutions https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=yd2XRcCEh9AMatterport Digital Twin by IFTI/PROvision Solutions Hi All! IFTI/PROvision Solutions has a need for Matterport...

iPhone 18Pro Preorders

lilnitsch

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1 monthlilnitsch (6841): Not sure if anyone else ordered this morning ~ I am upgrading my 14Pro Minor hiccup on the pre-order just had to turn off wifi to get the store to load this morning. https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/7ca65841a5ebfa03e481cd1acb9da51c.png

Commercial UAV Expo 2026: Record Crowd, New Rules

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (2018): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/d2c1e43087da2d6f4936c74669f9cf94.jpg Commercial UAV Expo 2026: Record Crowd, New Rules Commercial UAV Expo 2026 - Las Vegas, Nevada September 1-3, 2026 | Caesars Forum The 12th edition of Commercial UAV Expo wrapped up last week, and the numbers tell you something about where the drone industry's head is at right now. Organizers reported 3,800 verified professionals from all 50...

handheld lidar scanner

AnjumDesign

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1 monthTomSparks (2018): What is the Best Handheld LiDAR Scanner in 2026? If we are talking about professional handheld or mobile LiDAR for AEC, as-builts, BIM, E57 point clouds, commercial buildings, hotels, warehouses, schools, and similar projects, there are a few scanners that stand out. My current shortlist would be: 1. FARO Orbis Premium My pick for best overall handheld LiDAR scanner. The FARO Orbis Premium is probably the scanner I would put at the top...

Share your XGRIDS PortalCam scans here

Tosolini

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1 monthTosolini (4759): @aerialpixels Thanks! All my recent scans on my SuperSplat account took between 6-17 mins max. I process everything on the XGRIDS Cloud as I operate on a Mac. Then I upload the final scenes to SuperSplat. Reconstruction at standard quality took between 1-3:30h.

How to Post a Scan Job

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (2018): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/2e62382ca70951c41876e442472363dc.jpg Before anything else, what this thread is and isn't. This is not an invitation to post scan jobs here. Please don't reply with work you're hiring for, and please don't treat the template below as a form to fill out in this thread. This is guidance for elsewhere. When you go to post a job in a Facebook group, on LinkedIn, in a...

Geo Week: 2027 Partner Lineup Announced for Salt Lake City

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (2018): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/1b5592a0259981d2d2a7eae903e5c625.jpg Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Geo Week has announced its strategic partner lineup for the 2027 event, which runs February 23 to 25, 2027 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you work in reality capture, laser scanning, or any part of the built world where point clouds and maps overlap, this is the...