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

TomSparks

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11 daysTomSparks (1955): 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 (1251): 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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4 monthsTomSparks (1955): @vrephoto HA! lucky guess. thanks! anything you'd like to see added? any constructive criticism? tom

Giraffe360 Opens The Kitchen for Public Testing

TomSparks

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17 hoursTomSparks (1955): 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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17 hoursTomSparks (1955): 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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1 dayMeidansha (1251): 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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1 dayMeidansha (1251): 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!

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

roderick

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1 dayroderick (4): Thank you tom for the introduction. Great honor to be here!

Matterport’s new Video Maker in Beta

DigitalReplica3D

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1 dayVTLV (3021): Sounded Exciting until ..... "To use this feature, you must have a Professional plan or higher. Classic plans can’t use this feature." Automatically Generate a Tour Auto Tours https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/70a027fe5b88795732efa56739e8d546.png

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

mrtn01

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2 daysTomSparks (1955): @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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2 daysTomSparks (1955): 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...

ChatGPT

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3 daysTomSparks (1955): There are a few companies close to cracking the code I believe on multiple angle staging... they aren't quite there yet. My wish list is for all ai staging/editing to not destroy the images. not generate things that aren't there (without a prompt telling it to do so of course). keep the file sizes/quality in tact, keep metadata in tact, and accurate edit and/or VS images. @lilnitsch the examples you provided are great... I was...

Which SLAM Scanner Are You Buying or Watching?

TomSparks

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4 daysTomSparks (1955): 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*

IFTI_Lindsey

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5 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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7 dayslilnitsch (6778): 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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7 daysTomSparks (1955): 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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8 daysTomSparks (1955): 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

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9 daysTosolini (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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10 daysTomSparks (1955): 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

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10 daysTomSparks (1955): 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...

Geo Week 2027 | 23-25 February 2027 | SLC - Who's going?

TomSparks

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11 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/e37affd8e3aa6af57960a94742232753.jpg Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Geo Week 2027 | 23-25 February 2027 | Salt Palace Convention Center | Salt Lake City, Utah After years in Denver, Geo Week is moving to Salt Lake City for 2027. New city, new convention center, and probably a few new faces on the show floor. I'm starting to map out my travel and I'd...

New WGAN Membership Tiers Start October 1, 2026

TomSparks

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11 daysTomSparks (1955): When I took over We Get Around Network from Dan Smigrod at the start of this year, one of the first things I looked at was the membership structure. It had grown over the years into a mix of plan names that no longer described what anyone actually got. Basic, Standard, Premium, Fan Club, International Fan Club, etc. If you had to explain the difference to a new member, you would struggle, and I did struggle, more than once. So on October 1,...

What's New In Proptech: September 3, 2026

TomSparks

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15 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/e5e3f9d1cd78f8f5b4c6cdec9654fb50.jpg DJI launched the Osmo 360 II globally this morning from Berlin and skipped the United States for the second time. Insta360's Spatial Capture, the Gaussian splatting feature we covered three weeks ago, has been confirmed unavailable in the US. Zillow and Redfin settled with the FTC hours before their antitrust trial was set to begin. And a Compass...

Commercial UAV Expo: 2026 Pitch the Press Winners

TomSparks

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16 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/68dbd624d011360f5c7917512a78cac2.jpg Commercial UAV Expo is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Commercial UAV Expo has named Harris Aerial, Skyline Nav AI, and UtopiaCompression Corporation the three winners of its annual Pitch the Press competition. The winners were announced in Las Vegas on September 3, 2026, during the show's run at Caesars Forum from September 1 to...

Geo Week 2027: February 23 to 25 in Salt Lake City Utah

TomSparks

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18 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/45afbf5645ed020de0415f8ef6f8143a.jpg Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Geo Week 2027: February 23 to 25 in Salt Lake City Published by: We Get Around Network | Geo Week Geo Week moves to its new home in Salt Lake City for 2027, running February 23 to 25 at the Salt Palace Convention Center. The show convenes geospatial and mapping professionals from a dozen...

Realsee Galois P4: 8,000 Sq Ft Commercial Test Scan

TomSparks

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18 daysTomSparks (1955): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptevrjbBqo I brought the Realsee Galois P4 to an 8,000 square foot commercial building in Berkeley, California and handed it to someone who had never touched a Realsee camera before. Emily Olman of Hopscotch Interactive has been scanning the built environment for years, so this is a first impressions test on a working commercial space instead of...

Video: PMRE: Brandon Cooper on the Real Estate Media Event

TomSparks

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24 daysTomSparks (1955): https://youtu.be/P35BWXY0Rjc PMRE is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner I sat down with Brandon Cooper, owner of PMRE (Photo and Media for Real Estate), to talk about the industry's biggest annual gathering and where the real estate media business is heading. If you have ever wondered whether a conference like this is worth your time, this conversation lays out exactly what PMRE is, how it started, and who it is built for....

Geo Week: 2027 GEO Empower Scholarship Applications Open

TomSparks

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24 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/7419481b6b68cb5b2f95dd2a36248aa8.jpg GEO WEEK is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Geo Week has opened applications for the 2027 GEO Empower Event Scholarship, a program for university students in the United States who want to apply geospatial, surveying, mapping, and 3D technology to social and environmental problems. If you mentor students, teach, or hire, this is worth...

Video: Realsee Console: Full Walkthrough of Every Tool

TomSparks

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24 daysAerial_Perspective (60): Thanks for having me on this one, was a great chat with you and Tanya. Good to get the full console walked through on camera. Appreciate you putting it together.

Imagen turns listing photos into video

TomSparks

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26 daysTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/9f1df2b4ce4c23d28ad5bea9a86761c5.png Imagen is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Imagen: Turn Listing Photos Into Video You Can Sell Imagen now turns listing photos into a video you can sell alongside the photo package. Upload a listing, edit it the way you always have, and there is a Create clip button waiting at the end. Each clip uses up to 9 photos and runs up to 45...

Instant 2020 at the Jobsite

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27 daysInnoDraw (43): InnoDraw is a Third Party Service Marketing Partner. This kitchen was measured onsite using InnoDraw, with the measurements automatically converted into accurate 2D and 3D drawings and then directly into 2020 Design — all while still at the jobsite. No returning to the office to redraw measurements. No manually entering dimensions. No unnecessary steps that can introduce human error. With InnoDraw, the workflow is simple: Measure →...

Gear Check: What's the One Purchase You Regret?

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28 daysWingman (4801): BLK360 G1 for AU$15000. However I am not regretting buying it as a good tool in general, I am regretting buying a product from Leica which I now consider is an company operating through extortion from their own users. I bet they could never explain why G2 users can capture and get their data out of their proprietary format without paying anything to Leica while G1 users have to pay $1000s monthly just for it. If anybody ever goes against Leica...

What Virtual Tours Don't Show Buyers — WGAN in Redfin

TomSparks

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28 daysDataventurer (639): You asked for opinions - and I got some! First, I question Redfin's two-thirds stat about offers made without an in-person visit. Not in my world! I see the object of digital media as creating enough interest for a potential buyer to add the home to their short-list for a visit in person. Secondly, I think you are putting a lot of the "heavy lifting" on the virtual tour. A full digital media suite of photos, video...

Who have you met IRL from the WGAN Forum?

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30 daysDanSmigrod (32586): @Gladsmuir We very much enjoyed Ireland in May 2026. Here are our holiday photos from Dublin, Galway and Cork. Sounds great! I look forward to visiting, as well. Best, Dan

Who's ordering iGUIDE CAD Packages?

TomSparks

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1 monthSdoughtie (657): How accurate are they? I typically work for architects and corporations they require a lot of info and accuracy. I might give them a try to see what the output is like. I could not information of lead time. There was a link for it but it took me to pricing. The price being based on scans rather than area is interesting.

Creating Matterport Tag in csv on the fly...

Sdoughtie

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1 monthSdoughtie (657): I often capture 360 images in locations that are hard to access with a Matterport scanner and host them on my site for clients to view. I include a link in the Matterport model so they can easily access them. I just finished a .csv export to import these images into the Matterport model. The script is in php and uses database queries to generate the csv file. If you want to check it out, the project site linked below. I know it’s possible...

From Measurement to ProKitchen — Completed at the Jobsite

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1 monthInnoDraw (43): InnoDraw is a Third Party Service Marketing Partner. This kitchen was measured with InnoDraw and automatically converted to ProKitchen — with the entire project completed right at the jobsite. No additional office work. No manual redrawing. No hours spent recreating measurements. Eliminating human error mistakes! Measure → Convert → Done before leaving the jobsite. Save hours on every project while improving accuracy and...

What's New In Proptech: August 15, 2026

TomSparks

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1 monthTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/be446a8cf4d973d502c7901b1333bbde.jpg Two flagship 360 cameras launched 23 hours apart this week, and one of them quietly put 3D Gaussian Splatting inside a phone app. The Insta360 X6 shipped August 12 at $699.99 with a new Spatial Capture feature that generates Gaussian splats from 360 footage - and it works on the X5 and X4 too. DJI answered a day later with the Osmo 360 II at roughly $460,...

Matterport Side-by-Side Comparison

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1 monthDigitalReplica3D (299): @Casey_Clark No limitations. It is important to closely match the scan points and keep a consistent camera height. I used the original “Job” as a reference for camera location with the second and third Jobs. The demo video was four jobs. All of the Spaces need to be active for the Side-by-Side to work. The Side-by-Side Comparison has its own URL and doesn’t go against your plans Space count.

What's New In Proptech: August 7, 2026

TomSparks

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1 monthMeidansha (1251): This is a pretty smart round up. Thank you.

Dan’s in Japan

Meidansha

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1 monthDanSmigrod (32586): @Gladsmuir Yes. We are enjoying our month long visit to Japan. Our travels have included two amazing Japanese festivals. Dan

What's your favorite 3D virtual tour so far this year?

TomSparks

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1 monthlilnitsch (6778): Not sure on a favorite this year but, yesterday's office was an interesting Live, Work, Play https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Jami1jndpYT

Surprised by the Pro3 price drop. Is there something I should know?

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2 monthsCasey_Clark (40): I haven't really dug into 3DGS much yet, but I had similar thoughts after seeing some examples. It looks great in demos, but I'm still not sure how practical it is for everyday use. The loading time and hardware requirements seem like a pretty big hurdle when most clients just want to click a link and explore. Compared with a Matterport tour, the simplicity is still a big advantage. The technology is definitely interesting though,...

Giraffe360: AI Features Tested in Public in The Kitchen

TomSparks

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2 monthsTomSparks (1955): Giraffe360 is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://youtu.be/_v_Ze1K0Vpw Giraffe360: AI Features Tested in Public in The Kitchen Published by: We Get Around Network | YouTube I sat down with Janis Beinerts, Head of Product at Giraffe360, to talk about something most companies keep behind closed doors: experimental AI features tested out in the open. Giraffe360 recently launched The Kitchen, a public sandbox where...

What's New In Proptech: July 31, 2026

TomSparks

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2 monthsOrangeHill (103): Re: My 2 cents on SJM Tech I agree with everything said under “Why this Matters…” because, yes, the workflow for capturing and reconstructing 3DGS assets is becoming increasingly democratized, and hosting and navigating them remains a challenge to universal adoption. My quibble with SJM’s paid marketing content posing as a press release because they are not really saying anything to new and SJM provided links to SuperSplat.ai with very...

Who Still Offers DSLR/Mirrorless 360 Tours with Fisheye Lenses in 2026?

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2 monthsMeidansha (1251): @Home3D It would be good to hear your sales pitches for mirrorless 360 shots. I did this one of an abandoned farm rejuvenation project. https://virtualtour.productions/naposi-yell/minamiyamashironakantani/index.htm The client said that they wanted me to teach them how to do it with a Ricoh Theta so they could recapture it once each season. But they also wanted something a little bit more professional for the first shoot which they were...

Georgia's First High School Real Estate WBL Program

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2 monthsHome3D (4391): Drexel University in Philadelphia was an early pioneer in this type of on-the-job work experience as part of the college experience. They've done this for decades I think and their graduates leave school with long resumes of actual work experience from real companies in the Philly area. I understand it's been very successful and their grads land jobs at a way higher rate than most schools.

Realsee: Galois P4 vs. Matterport Pro3 Point Cloud Tested for AEC Work

TomSparks

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2 monthsCasey_Clark (40): Hi Sven, I’ve looked into the image quality side of the Galois cameras before. From what I understand, the Galois P4 uses 24K panoramic imagery, while the 16K panorama option is from the Galois M2. So the 24K output from the P4 is not an upscaled version of the 16K image — they are from two different camera systems. I think a side-by-side comparison between the P4, Pro3, and a terrestrial laser scanner would be a great idea. Looking at both...

Matterport Schematic Floor Plan with Wall Dimensions

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2 monthsGladsmuir (851): Hi @Michaeir,l Architectural elevations are flat, straight-on technical drawings that show the height, width, and outside look of a building's face. They act as a flat picture of a wall without perspective. These are not currently available from Matterport and when I last enquired there were no plans in place to supply them. They can indicate all the dimensions of the buildings doors, windows and other features, and the distances between...

Pro3 scan of a roof for a cell tower install, another use case!

TomSparks

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2 monthsTomSparks (1955): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/ef3a174190f3e9aec2b3852ed7ba6af7.jpg One of my photographers was out on the roof of a hotel in the Bay Area scanning an space that will have a cell phone tower installed. Easy work today with the Matterport Pro3 (Pro3 at the clients request). Yet another use case for having a digital twin of a space. What are some unique uese cases you've captured recently? Tom