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New WGAN Member Asks>Should I Switch to Matterport Pro2 from Ricoh Theta V?10734

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Hi All,

A new WGAN Member writes:

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Hi WGAN members.

I am Salim Al Arafati from Oman, co-founder and CEO of Virtual Eye company.

Our core business is to deliver virtual tours to our customers in real estate industry.

I am really happy to discover this forum.

Now we are using Ricoh theta V camera and we are considering to move to camera with better quality.

Do you know how quick relatively is matterport pro2 compared to theta V in shooting whole house?

And what is the longest distance can be made between 2 consecutive scans?

And is matterport pro2 smooth if I want to generate virtual tours from cupix?
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Welcome Salim

Let me start with an a/b comparison between the Theta V & a Matterport Pro2 in the same home:

Theta V


Matterport Pro2


The quality of the finished tour will be a much higher quality with a Matterport Pro1 or Pro2 camera

As for distance be tween scans. Generally, scan positions should be: Five to eight ft (1.5 to 2.5 m) apart. Within a line-of-sight to a previous scan. This will be true and a good rule of thumb for any Matterport tour regardless of which camera

If you are wanting to also want to create tours with Cupix I might steer you towards the Ricoh Theta Z1 simply due to the fact there is no easy way to export the 360 photos out of a Matterport tour to be able upload them to something like Cupix.

The Z1 does a pretty good job in the Matterport ecosystem and while scanning it leaves a copy of the photosphere on the camera therefore leaving the option open for adding the imagery to any number of 3rd party services.
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A couple purely Ricoh Z1 examples





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Salim private msg quote post Address this user
Thanks @DanSmigrod for introducing me and delivering my questions.

Thank you @lilnitsch for your deep reply,
It is very helpful.
But regarding pro2 camera, I read that some photographers advising to capture some open spaces with scan distance of 10-15 feets, so can pro2 align easily the second scan if it is 15 feet or more from the first sacn?

Thanks again for guiding me.
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In my experience, I haven't strayed much further than about 10 feet between scan positions & typically stay in the 5 to 8 range to avoid any mis-alignments. The home below is approximately 17,000 SqFt in total and was scanned with a Pro2 scan positions were approximately every 5 to 8 feet. I cannot share the tour as I had to sign a NDA to photograph the home


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I see.
Great, now things are much clearer.
It is really big house, can I know please how many hours it take you to accomblish this scanning?
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@Salim For that home I was onsite for about 6-7 hours
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I see.
Nice.
For Richo theta V I would take more than 20 hours to cover such area. That is very much faster with pro2
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