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Commercial UAV Expo 2026: Record Crowd, New Rules

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5 hoursTomSparks (1937): 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 dayTomSparks (1937): 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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2 daysTosolini (4753): @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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2 daysTomSparks (1937): 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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2 daysTomSparks (1937): 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...

★ WGAN Forms Library is live — 6 months free for first 25 members

TomSparks

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3 daysTomSparks (1937): 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 WGAN Membership Tiers Start October 1, 2026

TomSparks

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4 daysTomSparks (1937): 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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8 daysTomSparks (1937): 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...

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

TomSparks

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10 daysTomSparks (1937): 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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10 daysTomSparks (1937): 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...

Geo Week: 2027 GEO Empower Scholarship Applications Open

TomSparks

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17 daysTomSparks (1937): 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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17 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.

Creating Matterport Tag in csv on the fly...

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25 daysSdoughtie (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...

What's New In Proptech: August 15, 2026

TomSparks

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27 daysTomSparks (1937): 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,...

What's New In Proptech: August 7, 2026

TomSparks

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1 monthMeidansha (1224): This is a pretty smart round up. Thank you.

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

Casey_Clark

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1 monthCasey_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,...

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

TomSparks

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1 monthMeidansha (1224): @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...

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

TomSparks

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1 monthCasey_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...

Realsee Galois P4 Bay Area Beta Test: Free Loaner Scans for WGAN Members

TomSparks

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2 monthsTomSparks (1937): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/13cfa9eac6ca60d119f66ca7c7ac4be6.jpg Realsee Galois P4 Bay Area Beta Test: Test the Camera Free on Your Own Space Realsee has sent me a loaner Galois P4 3D LiDAR camera for beta testing in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have a space you would like to scan with the P4, simply private message me the details. I will arrange to meet up...

What's New In Proptech: July 17, 2026

TomSparks

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2 monthsMeshImages (3344): I am really looking forward to the release of the X6 https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/eb8c377372098ba4f2b99ffe3811ba7a.jpg

Getting Poor Low-Light Results from Insta360 X5

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2 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/05634c3fcd5e214186df3e22d4b4a336.jpg I had a couple hours free today so I recorded a video capturing the same house with the Insta360 X5, Ricoh Theta X, and Ricoh Theta Z1 on Matterport and Realsee platforms. 6 separate tours. video will be posted as soon as editing is done with it and links to the tours coming shortly as well. Tom

Robots for 360 photographer to automate or semi automate capturing process

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2 monthsWingman (4801): I think the only robot dog that can carry a camera raised to some reasonable level is the one from Boston Dynamics. Unless of course we are talking about Insta360 and Ricoh cameras. And to be honest they all wobble while walking so a rover on wheels is probably the only option :-) I may go back to that abandoned project after finishing a 360 degree rig. I have a 3D printer now so it can solve some problems that was hard to do without it. I...

Who Is Vibe Coding in Our Community? what are you making?

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2 monthsSdoughtie (657): I found that vive coding doesn’t work well for what I need. http://github.com/ArenixDev/forge what am I working on. I have a lisp library for AutoCad that parametricly draw AISC shapes from their spec tables that I wrote in the 90’s last updated in 2008. I’m planning to update this and expand it to include historical steel shapes encountered during building surveys. Working on an Nvidia Jetson nano cluster for AI and...

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

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2 monthsWingman (4801): I have forgotten to add why GNSS time is critical in the whole train. If I create a log for location data(gpx track) on my phone the rover is connected to via Bluetooth the log will be adding data only 5 times per second. It seems to be Bluetooth limitation. It is bad because videos are run at 24fps meaning there will be almost 5 times more frames than lines in the log with new location data. Trying to sync location log with frames it can only...

Realsee Galois P4 vs iGUIDE Planix R1: CAD Deliverable Showdown

TomSparks

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2 monthsTomSparks (1937): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/2a32ace1ec7da02e23cdc1188ce85218.jpg https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/d23eadd5c7f1f625f4cd24d1a0e47308.jpg Today I went to Pacific Grove, CA (Monterey CA basically)... to capture a small house that will begin a remodel. The client that hired me always uses iGUIDE for these projects. I mentioned that I have the Realsee...

Realsee Galois P4: Field Demo Scanning Buildings and Point Clouds

TomSparks

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3 monthsRealwalk3D (179): Hi, I'd like to see this scan as a product, as separate 360 ​​panoramas, and as a point cloud. Could you provide this data for me to review?

Geo Week News "Field Reality" Survey — Closes June 26

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/0b5443dfd1e642232a7dfdfb1f50540a.jpg Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Geo Week News "Field Reality" Survey to Capture Geospatial Industry Challenges Practitioners across the geospatial industry invited to share workflow experiences; survey incentive period closes June 26 PORTLAND, Maine, June 24, 2026 — Geo Week News announced a final call to...

Realsee: One Capture, Multiple Deliverables for Your Clients

TomSparks

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner One of the questions I get most often from people (clients, other photographers) is whether a single capture session can serve more than one client need. Realsee is worth a look here, because the platform is built to support multiple deliverables from your scan data rather than locking you into one output format. That flexibility matters when the same property has to satisfy a listing...

iPad M1 Pro still good enough?

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3 monthsMeshImages (3344): Oliver, thanks for the AEC perspective - definitely one of the more demanding use cases. From my day-to-day Pro3 work on large projects (trade fair locations with sometimes 200.000 sqft + per model) I'd like to add the following remarks: 1| The 5GB per-app cap was true for the early M1 releases, but Apple expanded it since iPadOS 15+, so modern pro apps can request more on high-memory models. The 5GB limit is outdated. 2| Matterport...

Realsee Galois P4: My first scan, deliverable review, tour link.

TomSparks

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner https://youtu.be/hBdQI0Lr5-Q In this video I run a complete start-to-finish workflow walkthrough of the Realsee Galois P4, captured against the Matterport Pro3 in the same hotel room for a true apples-to-apples comparison. If you shoot hotels, hospitality, or residential spaces and want to see how the P4 holds up against a go-to like Matterport, this covers the full capture process...

New to the WGAN Forum? Please introduce yourself

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3 monthsCasey_Clark (40): Hey all, Casey here, a real estate photographer. Been shooting residential and some higher-end properties for a while now.Saying hello and glad to join the forum. Looking forward to learning from everyone here. Cheers.

Video: Realsee Galois P4: 16-Second LiDAR Scans Field Tested

TomSparks

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): Matterport Pro3 tour https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=5XMLJCo39P7

Do 3D Tour Clients Now Want Floor Plans, CAD Files, Point Clouds & Panos?

TomSparks

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): @rhelling. I agree you do scan a space different for marketing vs aec.

Advisory Board Announced for Geo Week 2027

TomSparks

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3 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/43149e0127ebd2c7a61f328871556c10.jpg Geo Week is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner Advisory Board Announced for Geo Week 2027 The organizers of Geo Week — the premier conference and tradeshow for geospatial and mapping professionals — have announced the influential industry leaders joining the 2027 Advisory Board. The board recommends conference topics and speakers, consults...

The new Realsee Galois P4

ron0987

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4 monthsron0987 (4015): Realsee is a We Get Around Network Marketing Partner I recently had the opportunity to test the new Realsee P4 camera after closely following its development and the technical upgrades from the M2. When Realsee reached out and asked me to evaluate the P4, I was both surprised and genuinely excited. I conducted a full comparison test, which I’ll share in a separate post. From the start, the P4 was extremely easy to use. The new capture...

Realsee Joins We Get Around Network as Marketing Partner — Plus First Look

TomSparks

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4 monthsthreeninemedia (51): I have Realsee M2 camera for 3 years and am very satisfied with it as well as the features that Realsee offers - I do commercial and construction projects with it mostly and it never let me down.

What's New in Prop Tech: May 25, 2026

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/b35a8cbb7bafc2e4dbf3b0018bb02596.jpg What's New in Prop Tech: May 25, 2026 Hey All! Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software Sony a7 V Firmware 2.00 Adds 32-Bit Float Audio, Preset Focus, and Authenticity Signing Source: PetaPixel, May 20, 2026 Sony released free firmware v2.00 for the...

Trimming A Space...

rhelling

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4 monthsrhelling (401): Thanks all. I'm going to try the duplicating.

Giraffe360 Pro Camera: Full Shoot, Deliverables, Agent Reaction

TomSparks

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4 monthsAmy (99): @Fathom3D absolutely, you can check out the deliverables on our website, and now even sign up for a free demo to access our Content Studio, with some demo properties included to try out the features. It's hard to do a like for like comparison (though you'll find some on YouTube), as the two technologies are designed for different audiences. Where Matterport is strongest in commercial settings and scanning large spaces, Giraffe is...

What's New in Prop Tech: May 17, 2026

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/e7d64b3c659443b42b8e7bd654e7c0b0.jpg What's New in Prop Tech: May 17, 2026 Hi All. Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software DJI Officially Launches Dual-Camera Osmo Pocket 4P at Cannes with 1-Inch Sensor and 3x Telephoto, US Sale Blocked Source: PetaPixel and DJI press release, May...

CRE Floor Plan and Tour advice sought.

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4 monthsavanti_ (16): @ron0987 Matterport has minor recognition here in Australasia (NZ and Au). Practical solutions reign supreme. The blood to visualise a space in 360 at any time regardless of immersive or not is what’s most important. Hence the Google Street view component to my workflow.

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

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): @vrephoto HA! lucky guess. thanks! anything you'd like to see added? any constructive criticism? tom

What's New in Prop Tech: May 12, 2026

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/20e45ab74d0d11e18cfcdcceffaaf928.jpg Hi All. Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software Antigravity A1 Drone Gets U3 Firmware: Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance, Voice Control, and Smarter Auto Edit Source: The Drone Girl, DroneDJ, and No Film School, May 11, 2026 Insta360's sub-250g...

What's New in Prop Tech: May 8, 2026

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/3965b3a6ca1abe75f0fea7bab8b3e853.jpg What's New in Prop Tech: May 8, 2026 Hi Everybody. Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software Emesent Launches GX1 All-in-One SLAM, LiDAR, RTK, and 360 Imagery Mobile Scanner at Geo Week 2026 Source: GPS World, May 5 to 7, 2026 (Geo Week 2026,...

What's New in Prop Tech: May 6, 2026

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/7a37bb836f366b69b864eaa57f9e0cd1.jpg What's New in Prop Tech: May 6, 2026 Hi All, Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software DJI Osmo Mobile 8P Lands Global May 7 With Detachable FrameTap Display, ActiveTrack 8.0 Source: DroneXL and Imaging Resource, April 28, 2026 DJI...

From Complex Measurements to Build-Ready Precision

InnoDraw

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4 monthsInnoDraw (43): InnoDraw is a Third Party Service Marketing Partner. Not every project is a simple box… and that’s exactly where precision matters most. This recent measuring job included multiple rooms, offsets, tight transitions, and detailed utility placements — all captured on-site and transformed into clean, fully dimensioned drawings and 3D models. But here’s the real advantage: 👉 The entire space was automatically converted into...

What's New in Prop Tech: May 4, 2026

TomSparks

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4 monthsTomSparks (1937): https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/71ef8aecf402b4ede2338ec39df58a82.jpg What's New in Prop Tech: May 4, 2026 Hi All, Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. 3D Capture Hardware and Software Insta360 X6 Leak Hints at Imminent Launch With 1-Inch Sensor and 8K60 360 Video Source: Digital Camera World, May 2026 Newly surfaced certification...

Have a look at some of my latest work and send me some feedback please

Pedrotex69

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4 monthsbethereeu (124): You need to hide some scans, espessially in doorways https://ninja-post-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/4a50564a98acaade51a17be80c8a3d18.png

AI infused 3D walkthroughs?

GlennTremain

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5 monthsGlennTremain (3132): Thanks Tom I am familiar with zillow , homes.com and realtor.com and have had idx api's to use to get it like them but was curious of a well polished matterport or insta360 that did this beyond the manychat style of experience. Thanks for the others I have not seen them and the may be what I'm looking for. I just checked them out and kukan seems the closest but I need to dig deeper. I'll make a video update of these and...

What's New in Prop Tech: April 27, 2026

TomSparks

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5 monthsTomSparks (1937): What's New in Prop Tech: April 27, 2026 Here is today's roundup of prop tech news for real estate photographers and 3D virtual tour pros. Today's headline: the Real Brokerage and RE/MAX $880M merger. 3D Capture Hardware and Software Insta360 Luna Pro Officially Confirmed: Single-Cam, 10-Bit iLog, AI Tracking, Two Colors Source: Notebookcheck, April 2026 Insta360 has now formally confirmed the single-cam Luna...