WGAN-TV Podcast

Part 1
In this free WGAN-TV Training U in Zillow 3D Home App Course, you will learn:✓ How to shoot with the Zillow 3D Home App - Part 1✓ How to do post production of your Zillow 3D Home Tour - Part 2The course is taught by By Virtual Tour Expert and Zillow Certified Photographer Emily Olman. Emily is the Founder of Hopscotch Interactive and is a WGAN Member (@Hopscotch).WGAN-TV Training U Related Course✓ WGAN-TV How to Make Money with Zillow 3D Home ToursOther WGAN-TV Training U Course by Emily Olman✓ WGAN-TV | A Beginners Guide to Matterport Scanning✓ WGAN-TV | A Beginners Guide to Matterport ScanningFor more free and paid WGAN-TV Training U Courses, please see:✓ WGAN-TV Training UPlus ...✓ Are you a real estate photographer researching Creating Virtual Tours?✓ Are you a real estate agent researching DIY Creating 3D/360 Virtual Tours?Best,Dan

PPV for Non-Profits, Museums, Galleries, Historic Locations and Tourist DestinationsHomePlan NZ Director Scott MacKenzie (@HomePlanNZ) on the HomePlan platform for Pay Per View (PPV) Service for Matterport 3D Tours.Topics covered included:✓ Demo of HomePlan Pay Per View (PPV) Service example (Old Jail Museum in Petone)✓ Discussion of likely uses cases for PPV (non-profits, museums, attractions)✓ Marketing: Open your doors to a new world of online visitors✓ HomePlan PPV user entry fee/one use code (planned options, including multi-currency)✓ HomePlan PPV feature: duration of viewing experience✓ Embedding of Tour and dedicated access page provided by HomePlan✓ HomePlan PPV planned features: multiple ticket, currency conversion, auto-add applicable local tax✓ How long to implement? (ordering workflow)✓ PPV viewing experience best practices (discussion of MatterTags, Labels, Video, Highlight Reel)✓ Compatible with MP/embed links✓ Use of MP/embed to annotate space; add background music, position-activated narration✓ Use of HomePlan automation for exporting and importing MatterTags✓ HomePlan PPV pricing options: Standard and Premium✓ How to order HomePlan PPV✓ Future: other 3D/360 Virtual Tour platformsHomePlan PPV leverages the Matterport API and SDK.WGAN Forum Related Discussions✓ WGAN Forum discussions tagged: HomePlan | PPV✓ Transcript: WGAN-TV: Automating Exporting & Importing Matterport MatterTags✓ WGAN-TV Training U: Automating Exporting & Importing Matterport MatterTagsBest,DanHomePlan NZ Links✓ HomePlanNZ Website✓ HomePlanNZ Instagram✓ HomePlan NZ Facebook

Create opportunities as a result of fast, easy and affordable automation of exporting/importing Matterport MatterTags
WGAN-TV: Automating Exporting/Importing Matterport MatterTags and Exporting Matterport LabelsHi All,Do you have a need for automation for:✓ exporting Matterport MatterTags✓ importing Matterport MatterTags✓ exporting Matterport LabelsHow about exporting/importing for:✓ hundreds of products for sale within a Matterport Digital Twin?✓ Same space: different Matterport 3D Tour?✓ Facilities Management (FM) annotation?✓ Construction documentation?On WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Thursday, 23 April 2020, HomePlan NZ Director Scott MacKenzie (@HomePlanNZ) will tell us about how the HomePlan NZ Platform automates the exporting and importing of Matterport MatterTags and Matterport Labels to make these kind of Matterport Digital Twin project possible.The @HomePlanNZ team developed this solution to reduce the time that this process took for their Matterport Service Provider business.The HomePlan NZ MatterTag Importing/Exporting Platform leverages the Matterport API and SDK.Save the date and time!For WGAN Forum related discussions about this and other HomePlan NZ services, please see this WGAN Forum Tag: HomePlanNZEnjoy your weekend and stay healthy,DanHomePlan NZ Links✓ HomePlanNZ Website✓ HomePlanNZ Instagram✓ HomePlan NZ Facebook

How to save clients money and time; These are the stakeholders
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WGAN-TV How Matterport Service Providers can Make Money doing Weekly Construction DocumentationHi All,If you are a Matterport Service Provider that wants to learn more about Weekly Construction Documentation - this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show is for you.With Matterport, you literally can get everyone on the same page for the General Contractor's weekly meeting to identify issues (before they become expensive to reverse). For the entire life-cycle of the construction, weekly construction progress documentation has many use cases by many constituents.My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Monday, 6 April 2020 is IFTI/PROVision Vice President of Business Development James Duffy.Watch: WGAN-TV How Matterport Service Providers can Make Money doing Weekly Construction Documentation"We have different clients that use us for construction monitoring quite often, so we're doing that weekly progression, and to one of these clients, they actually use it for their project management meetings every week," says Concord, CA-based IFTI - Independent Floor Testing & Inspection Director of Sales and Marketing James Duffy."So we go scan on Thursday, we have all the scans completed, and then on Monday morning, when they have their project management meeting, each project manager is asked if there's any issue that they need to highlight in the meeting, and they pull up the Matterport space, and they walk through it, and they dissect an issue.""And so we help them with their documentation. Usually when the walls go up, and right before rough-in, that we come in and document, and what they've noticed is a change in the work orders of the change orders of what's happening, 'cause they're able to catch problems quicker."On this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show, James will cover:✓ What is Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ What problems does Weekly Construction Documentation solve?✓ Who are the Stakeholders (users) of Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ How is Weekly Construction Documentation used?✓ Before Matterport, how was Weekly Construction Documentation done?✓ How is Weekly Construction Documentation done now with Matterport?✓ How do Matterport Service Providers help with Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ How can Matterport Service Providers generate scanning business for Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ Where do these titles mean within big brands (and why this 'Matters')?-- Director of Store Planning-- Vice President of Construction-- Director of Architecture and Design-- Vice President of Facilities✓ How is COVID-19 is affecting Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ How will COVID-19 will likely change Weekly Construction Documentation?✓ What categories of big brands to target (such as retail and restaurants)✓ Why target multi-site big brands?✓ How to offer Matterport scanning for Weekly Construction Documentation at scale✓ How to offer Weekly Construction Documentation in multiple markets at scaleWhat questions would you like me to ask during this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show with James?Stay healthy,Dan

How to shoot a Metareal Stage 3D Virtual Tour with nearly any 360 Camera; post production
Hi All,My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Wednesday, 25 March 2020 is Metareal Inc. CEO Gareth Morgan.Gareth will demo and discuss the Metareal Stage 3D virtual tour platform: including how to make floor plans and 3D virtual tours from 360 photos shot with any 360 camera (or let a Metareal Certified Artist build the tour for you).I will ask questions from a Service Provider – and real estate agent - perspective.You can see a Metareal Stage virtual tour above and more Metareal Stage virtual tours here.Best,Dan
P.S. Spoiler Alert (added after the show)
Key Takeaways✓ Metareal Stage 3D virtual tour is amazing. Unlike Matterport, the Metareal Stage 3D virtual tour can be shot with nearly any 360º camera and because of how Metareal creates the 3D virtual tour, the tour can be shot much, much faster.✓ Metrareal Stage offers both automatic tour and floor plan creation service or DIY tour creation (to save money)✓ Compared to Matterport, Metareal offers a more cost-effective 3D virtual tour solution✓ free publishing to Google Street View✓ Metareal Stage is a serious contender for Service Providers to offer to real estate agentsI look forward to our next WGAN-TV Live at 5 show (date TBD) when you will do a deeper dive demo and discussion of:✓ Metareal Stage plug-in for Autodesk Revit✓ Metareal Stage SDK

Matterport saves money and time; and creates additional uses cases.
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Hi All,If you are a Matterport Service Provider that has no idea what an "As-Built" is, this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show is for you.My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Tuesday, 24 March 2020 is IFTI/PROVision Vice President of Business Development James Duffy.Watch: WGAN-TV How Matterport Service Providers can Make Money Scanning for "As-Builts"James will cover:✓ What is an "As-Built"?✓ What problems does an "As-Built" solve?✓ Who are the Stakeholders (users) of "As-Builts"?✓ How are "As-Builts" used?✓ Before Matterport MatterPaks, how were "As-Builts" created?✓ How are "As-Builts" created now?✓ How do Matterport Service Providers help with "As-Built" creation?✓ How can Matterport Service Providers generate scanning business for "As-Builts"?✓ Where do these titles mean within big brands (and why this 'Matters')?-- Director of Store Planning-- Vice President of Construction-- Director of Architecture and Design-- Vice President of Facilities✓ What categories of big brands to target (such as retail and restaurants)✓ Why target multi-site big brands?✓ How to offer Matterport scanning for "As-Builts" at scale✓ How to offer "As-Builts" in multiple markets at scaleWhat questions would you like me to ask during this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show with James?Best,Dan

Thank you to the Matterport Service Providers participating ...
Hi All,Like everyone else around the globe, the Coronavirus is causing anxiety and uncertainty for Matterport Service Providers.On a special WGAN-TV Town Hall (5 pm ET | GMT -4) this Monday, 23 March 2020), join the discussion about how you are feeling and dealing with COVID-19 and, when possible, please offer helpful suggestions for what Matterport Service Providers can do with our down time.During this live WGAN-TV Town Hall: Matterport Service Providers Coping with COVID - you can watch or participate by either:✓ join the discussion with video with this Zoom video link (https://zoom.us/j/540140231)✓ join the discussion by phone onlyiPhone one-tap: US: +16468769923,,540140231# or +13126266799,,540140231#Telephone: ID: 540 140 231Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):US:+1 646 876 9923+1 312 626 6799+1 301 715 8592+1 346 248 7799+1 669 900 6833+1 253 215 8782International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/aeEOqKSUFIThanks for joining the discussion on the show.If you can't make it, what questions should I ask those on the show?Be safe,Dan

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as applied to Matterport Digital Twins
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WGAN-TV How and Why to Create ADA Compliant Matterport and Other 3D/360 Virtual Tours
Hi All,✓ What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?✓ How does the ADA apply to Matterport and other3D/360 Virtual Tours?✓ How do you create ADA compliant Matterport and other 3D/360 Virtual Tours?✓ What should every Matterport Service Provider and other 3D/360 Virtual Tour Service Providers know about ADA?My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET Thursday, 19 March 2020 is Barnes Creative Studios Founder Steve Barnes (@BarnesCreative). Barnes Creative Studios has created an exclusive ADA compliant player to make Matterport and other 3D/360 Virtual Tours - accessible to Americans with disabilities.The WGAN-TV Live at 5 topic is: How and Why to Create ADA Compliant Matterport and Other Virtual ToursIf you have enterprise clients or prospects, it's likely that you will be asked about how to make the Matterport Digital Twins ADA compliant. Over time, it's also likely that other existing or potential clients of your Matterport Tours will ask about ADA compliance.“Under the current law, there is an incentive for plaintiff’s lawyers to file ADA access lawsuits: hotels may be required to pay a disabled person’s attorney fees even if the hotel agrees to correct any problems right away," says FindLaw.Even if you do not have enterprise clients such as a major hotel brand or cruise line brand, this is a "must watch" WGAN-TV Live at 5 show.Here are questions that I anticipate asking Steve:1. What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?2. How does ADA apply to Matterport 3D Tours?3. What is the Web Content Accessibilities Guidelines (WCAG)?4. How does the Website Content Accessibilities Guidelines apply to Matterport 3D Tours?5. Why should I care about making Matterport 3D Tours ADA compliant? Enterprise clients and prospects?6. Can you speak about this from a disabled person's perspective?7. Can you speak about this from a lawsuit perspective?8. How and why did you decide to build an ADA compliant virtual tour player9. Please demo your ADA compliant, custom-built embedded virtual tour player10. Please demo the Video Guided Tour Button11. Please demo the Audio Description Button (Screen Reader)12. Please demo the Read Transcription Button13. Please demo how to return to the standard virtual tour Button14. What does "level double A" compliant mean? Other levels?15. Does ADA compliant virtual tours super-charge SEO? How so?16. How does the Barnes Creative Studios ADA compliant player address issues about disabilities related to:visualaudiospeechcognitivelanguagelearningneurological17. [I will explain the exclusive free offer for WGAN Forum Members and how to receive.]18. Barnes Creative Studios Pricing for ADA client Matterport Digital Twins19. I understand that you are no longer a Matterport Service Provider. Why does that matter?20. Your website to reach out to you? (www.BarnesCareativeStudios.com)21. What questions have I not asked you that I should ask?22. Anything else?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[The following is reprinted with permission of Barnes Creative Studios (BCS) from this BCS blog post.]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Barnes Creative Studios ADA Compliant Matterport - and other 3D/360 – Virtual Tours for Hospitality
Barnes Creative Studios (BCS) has developed a solution to make ADA compliant virtual tours. ADA (The Americans with Disabilities Act) compliance means making your service or product accessible to people with disabilities and it was amended to include websites in 2008. Hotels are increasingly aware that non-compliant websites make them potentially liable for lawsuits and fines, and many have implemented standards to comply.Up until now, there was not a streamlined solution to make virtual tours compliant. BCS has created a solution. Introducing an embedded player which not only provides AA compliant virtual tours, but also can be used for older virtual tours you already have in your catalog. Also, as an added bonus your search engine optimization will be amplified.See a list of past and current lawsuits on the ADA website that includes many hotels and resorts.BCS Has an Exclusive Player that Adheres to Accessibility GuidelinesBCS exclusively provides our custom ADA compliant virtual tours that adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning and neurological.BCS offers a solution which directly adheres to the “WCAG 2.0 guidelines 1.2 for time-based media: providing alternatives for time-based media”. This includes “audio and/or video combined with interaction”. The accessible alternative version of our ADA compliant virtual tour contains:✓ Alternative Pre-Recorded Video Guided Virtual Tour✓ Transcript✓ Audio Description (Prerecorded)✓ Live CaptionsAll of the above is delivered in a custom-built embedded player that hosts both media items. Firstly, it includes the standard virtual tour and secondly the alternative accessible version that is ADA compliant. For example, below is an ADA compliant virtual tour from the Four Seasons Punta Mita Mexico.
Added SEO value for ADA Compliant Virtual TourAs a result, for having compliant virtual tours on your website your search engine optimization (SEO) value will be supercharged. SEO is successful when you have contextual elements attached to rich media, for instance, like transcripts and detailed descriptions. With our ADA compliant virtual tour the added context from the WCAG 2.0 guidelines makes your content fuel your web page resulting in successful SEO.Barnes Creative Studios looks forward to help your hotel reach compliance with ADA standards. 360 Virtual tours are a unique user driven media and BCS is dedicated to making these experiences available to as many people as possible.Private Message Steve Barnes at @BarnesCreative for more information.Source: Barnes Creative Studios Blog Post

WGAN Forum Membership Benefit: Free Branding and More Digital Assets
Watch WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Tuesday, 10 March 2020 for: Matterport Virtual Staging from Imagineer. My guest will be Matterport Virtual Staging Value-Added Reseller Peterborough, England-Based Imagineer Consulting Founder Angus Norriss (@AngusNorriss)-------------------------------------------------------Imagineer Offers Matterport Virtual Staging powered by VRPMHi All,As a Matterport Service Provider, you now have a new Add On to offer:✓ Virtual Staging of Matterport SpacesYou can now order virtual staging of Matterport digital twins of empty spaces from WGAN Premium Member Peterborough, England-Based Imagineer Consulting Angus Norriss (@AngusNorriss).The sweet-spot for virtual staging of Matterport digital twins likely includes:For Matterport Service Providers, virtual staging of Matterport digital twins is a great Add On and may result in properties being scanned twice: after drywall installation and once furnished.✓ multi-family rentals and senior living communities✓ multi-family home communities✓ commercial office spaceVirtual staging can include:✓ adding furniture✓ changing wall colors✓ adding walls✓ adding lightingVirtual staging styles available include:✓ Traditional Interior Style✓ Modern Interior Style✓ Contemporary Home Decor Style✓ Shabby-Chic✓ Industrial Interior DesignImagineer Valued-Added Services for Matterport Digital Twin Virtual Staging Include:✓ Project Management✓ Priced Lower than Ordering Direct from the Developer (VRPM)✓ Exclusive for WGAN Forum Members: free branding in the nadir (tripod patch)Three Steps for Virtual Staging of Matterport Digital Twins by ImagineerStep 1: Share the Space – "You will need to transfer your tour to us, we will stage it and once complete, we will transfer the tour back to you."Step 2: Pick the Style – "Pick out the interior theme you wish to have included in the different rooms. We will then manage the entire process of the production for you."Step 3: Approve – "On completion we will transfer the Matterport space back to you. You can use this on any website, just like a normal Matterport tour."For an example of "Before" and "After" virtual staging by Imagineer Consulting Founder Angus Norriss, please see above. For additional examples, please see the Imagineer Consulting Landing Page for Matterport Virtual Staging of Digital Twins.Questions about virtual staging of Matterport digital twins? Please post to this WGAN Forum discussion or Private Message: @AngusNorrissImagineer is a Value-Added Reseller of Virtual Staging by UK-based VRPM.Best,Dan

RELA Single Property Websites for Real Estate Photographers and Matterport Service Providers
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Hi All,With the RELA Single Property Website platform for Matterport Service Providers, you can "Book more clients, get paid on time, and automate media delivery."WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm EST | GMT -5) Thursday (20 February 2020)My guest on the show will be Newport Beach, CA based Rela CEO @MikeLand whom will demo and discuss the Rela platform for Matterport Service Providers (with these new features since our last two WGAN-TV Live at 5 shows about RELA):✓ Book a Shoot – with a customer facing order form✓ Smart Pricing and Packages – Configure your products and services with automatic pricing based on property size or quantity of images. Easily create discounted packages & bundles to encourage your customers to order the best combination of services.✓ Get Paid on Time with Integrated Payments and Media Delivery – Eliminate the hassle of chasing invoices. Streamline your payment collection workflow by locking media downloads until your customer pays the total balance.Flexible invoicing allows you to issue deposit invoices before you confirm the booking, progress invoices, or issue a full invoice at any time.✓ Team Calendar Sync and Assignments – Spend less time planning and more time doing with shareable calendars that integrate seamlessly with Google Calendar so you always know what's next. Schedule appointments and assign tasks quickly by checking coworkers' availability or layering their calendars in a single view. You can share calendars so people see full event details or just if you are free.✓ RELA Photographer Storefront – can be added to your active Rela Photographer account at any time. (Special RELA Pricing for We Get Around Network Forum Members)Plus we'll review how Matterport Service Providers can differentiate their service provider business and make money by offering the white-label version of the Rela platform.Are you a Matterport Service Provider searching for a way to help you differentiate your business?@MikeLand will also demo and discuss the Rela platform with a focus on how Matterport Service Providers like you can differentiate your service provider business and make money by offering the white-label version of the Rela platform with lead generation, Single Property Website white-label platform for Matterport 3D Tours (and photos, videos and floor plans) that doesn't require Wordpress and can also (easily) generate flyers and brochures:✓ Demo Style 1✓ Demo Style 2✓ Demo Style 3✓ Demo Style 4✓ Demo Style 5✓ More Demo StylesRELA Features✓ Single Property Website templates with Lead Generation✓ Marketing tools such as: 1-Click Property Brochures✓ Mobile friendly✓ Real-time analytics and lead management✓ Automated Reporting (send scheduled visitor reports to clients (or team Members)✓ Lead Capture built-in CRM for tracking and managing leads✓ Option to purchase vanity URLs built-in✓ Use your domain name✓ Advanced analytics (page views, visitor counts, social referrals)✓ Unlimited photos✓ Unlimited videos✓ SEO built-in✓ royalty free music✓ Cloud Hosted (does not require Wordpress)✓ Google Maps integrationRelated WGAN-TV Live at 5 Shows (Previously Aired)✓ WGAN-TV RELA Single Property Website Service (8 February 2018)✓ WGAN-TV Getting Started with RELA for Pros (8 May 2018)Best,DanP.S. Join the Virtual Studio Audience to ask Rela CEO Mike Land questions during the show.| Rela Website | Linkedin | Twitter | Facebook | WGAN Forum @MikeLand | Rela is a WGAN Premium Member |

Transcript: Pilot One is a Contender for Real Estate PhotographersTranscript (video above)- Hi all, I'm Dan Smigrod, Founder of the We Get Around Network Forum. Today is Monday February 10, 2020 and you're watching WGAN-TV Live at 5. Our topic tonight; my review, my beta testing of the Labpano Pilot One.What's my conclusion the Labpano Pilot One 360 one click camera is a contender for real estate photographers that want to offer 360 Virtual Tours and do Google Street View map updates for storefronts. Those two things. My recommendation is based on loaner of a Pilot One camera, it's a kind of a beta hardware and software but I been loaned a Pilot One camera Labpano sent it to me, it arrived on Thursday January 23, 2020.And my recommendation is also based on a discussion that I had with some super successful Google Street View subject matter expert photographers at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in London. These are power users of the Labpano Pilot Era: and that's the big brother of the the Pilot One.Labpano is presently accepting Pilot One pre-orders through the first week of March 2020 and I have a link for you that you can get a free GPS module that's valued at $129. So free with the link WGAN.info/Pilot One. PILOT One, excuse me, P-I-L-O-T O-N-E, Pilot One. WGAN.info/pilotoneWith the Labpano had previously announced that the Pilot One would begin shipping in late February 2020, it has since updated the shipping schedule to March 2020 and that's at the soonest as a result of the CoronaVirus affecting staffing at its China based manufacturing facility. Okay so, what did I hope to do? There were three reasons that I accepted LabPano's invite to beta test and review the Pilot One.First, I was super excited about creating Google Street View map updates and creating new Google Street View "blue lines" ... Essentially Google Street View where there is presently no Google Street View, that's the first thing that I was super-excited about testing. Second, is to create a PilotTour using the Labpano new Virtual Tour platform in the cloud, featuring auto creation of tours, that's using a process called V-SLAM.Super-excited to see how Labpano new Virtual Tour platform in the cloud would automatically create Virtual Tours without a photographer having to create a constellation or organize the 360s into the tour. So I really wanted to create PilotTours with the Pilot One camera.And the third reason that I wanted to accept the Labpano's invite to beta test and review the Pilot One was to create EyeSpy360 virtual tours using the 360 panorama shots from the Pilot One. Unfortunately or fortunately Labpano is having so much success with pre-sales, I have not received the GPS module and their recommended backpack as of [10 Feb 2020] in order to create Google Street View with Pilot One.And, also unfortunately PilotTour is still in very early development and I'll talk more about my PilotTour testing and recommendations later in my review. I did successfully shoot 360 HDR panoramas with the Pilot One to create multiple EyeSpy360 virtual tours.If you'd like to see examples of my EyeSpy360 tours, come to the We Get Around Network Forum, WGANforum.com and just use the search box, search for EyeSpy360 or search for Pilot One, either way you're going to end up seeing examples of EyeSpy360 tours that I created using the Pilot One, 360 degrees spherical panoramas.In particular I think, two of the tours, two are the We Get Around Network Forum discussions to look at that include examples, one is titled; My Third EyeSpy360 Tour Workflow for furnished Apartment in Atlanta and the other is entitled My EyeSpy360 tour Example Of a Senior Living Apartment: Easy, Fast and Affordable Tour Creation.So my initial thoughts from using the Pilot One as an Apple fanboy, the highest recommendation, the highest compliment that I can make for the Pilot One is that the is that the user experience strives to be Mac-like.And while the user experience is not there yet, I can imagine that the that the Labpano team will achieve a great Mac-like user experience with firmware updates. Well, I have not taken 50 plus 360 cameras for spin, literally there are that many 3D and 360 cameras today 50 plus cameras. That said, I can't imagine that the Pilot One, 2.2 inch touchscreen with logical menus ...I can imagine that the Pilot One 2.2 inch touchscreen with the logical menus is a huge differentiator particularly when it comes to overriding the automatic modes to change camera settings.So it's very easy using the menus to change exposure compensation, the EV value or the WB; the white balance value or focus distance. So not things that you have to remember and press a button and it's a mystery that literally having a touchscreen with menus, it's super-easy to change settings.So that makes a lot of sense for me. I shot with enough 360 cameras to say, it would be really hard for me to go back to using any other 360 camera that does not have a touchscreen as large as the Pilot One; does not have Mac-like menus, it's really, it's a terrific advantage as part of the 360 Virtual Tour creation process. So about shooting 360 spherical panoramas.When I shot three Atlanta Senior Living Apartments using the Pilot One, again these examples are in the We Get Around Network Forum, I kept the settings on automatic with HDR enabled.The in-camera stitched image quality is excellent and I like that the images are typically 11 to 14 Mega Pixel, mega byte, MB JPEG images.They're just big deep files that if you do need to do some editing on I'm just happy about that. So it may be helpful for context that nearly 10 years ago I was using a Canon 5D Mark III with the Sigma 8 millimeter fisheye lens and a Nodal Ninja R1 rotator to shoot 360s.A lot of money, a lot of gear, plus then using two different software's PTGui Pro and Pano2VR to both stitch the images together and clean up the patch where the tripod is located.So important, for the vast majority of professional real estate photographers that require an easy, fast and affordable workflow for shooting 360s, the Pilot One fulfills this requirement.It's so important, I have to say it again. For the vast majority of professional real estate photographers that require an easy, fast and affordable workflow for shooting 360s, the Pilot One fulfills this requirement. I'm going to defer to others to debate the quality of the 360 panoramas, versus other 360 cameras versus the price of the cameras and related accessories.As I just shared with you the Pilot One touchscreen with the Mac-like experience for shooting 360s really are the deciding factor for me.I could imagine that what you look at my 360 images shot with the Pilot One, again the examples are in the We Get Around Network Forum, WGANforum.com, you might conclude that the HDR is not so great or that the color saturation is not the best I would say blame me first for not changing the exposure compensation, the EV, and not doing any post-production to tweak the color saturation and white balance. That said the images are good enough for me straight out of the camera, to use them in the tours without tweaking a thing.I did get a little taste of the Labpano Pilot Tour Virtual Tour platform.Again it's an early, early, early beta. I recommend that Labpano abandon offering Pilot Tour Virtual Tour service and instead focus on third-party integrations with as many of the 130 plus 3D/360 Virtual Tour platforms as possible. I consider the Labpano Pilot Tour Virtual Tour platform in the cloud more of a proof-of-concept to show what is possible with deep integration between the Pilot One camera and other platforms.When possible using the Pilot Open System to create a much shorter and easier workflow for creating 360 Virtual Tours. I could imagine that camera manufacturers like Labpano are obsessed with incremental improvements in the hardware and software and actually the greatest value add Labpano could add is seamless integration with Virtual Tour platforms and software that already exists. It's obviously headed in that direction with the Labpano Pilot Open System.So I can see the potential when the Pilot Tour platform is working that isn't that awesome, because it automatically places and connects the 360s. That said, there are other platforms that already do that such as EyeSpy360. And the EyeSpy360 platform is far more advanced. They've had a, let's call it a five-year head start on deeply understanding Virtual Tours for real estate agents and brokers.And Labpano really needs to come to the conclusion that it's in the camera business, it's not in the tour business.It's really difficult to do both and as I'll talk about in a moment, well, offering, I'll get to the point. (And I should say parenthetically when I'm asked for a recommendation regarding which 3D or 360 camera to buy for real estate photographers or for real estate agents, I always recommend determining the use case first, then to look at the Virtual Tour platform or platforms that are on their short list of the 360, excuse me the 130 plus Virtual Tour platforms and software that exists today.Only then look at which camera or cameras have easy, fast and seamless experience, have an easy, fast and seamless experience with those Virtual Tour platform or platforms.)So at the very least, Labpano should prioritize deep integration with the following eight 3D/360 Virtual Tour platforms with the Pilot Open System allowing for this easy, fast and seamless experience. Those eight are in an alphabetical order, Cupix, C-U-P-I-X, EyeSpy360, Google Street View, Matterport, Panoskin, ThreeSixty tours, T-H-R-E-E S-I-X-T-Y Tours, RICOH Tours, Zillow 3D Home.I've written a related WGAN Forum post titled, Are You a 3D/360 Camera Manufacturer? The Must Have Killer Feature Is ... So I go into great detail on this very point. For clarification, if the Labpano objective is - PilotTour: Indoor and Outdoor 360 Virtual Tour Made Easy" - that's their tagline, I would suggest that they study the EyeSpy360 Virtual Tour platform. For example, the EyeSpy360 workflow is much, much, much easier than the vision of Labpano's PilotTour even when PilotTour emerges from beta, even in its likely future state of what that might be.So for example, EyeSpy360 Virtual Tour, if you take a look at it one of the examples that I've posted to the We Get Around Network Forum that use the 360s that I shot with the Pilot One, it is a much faster workflow than it would be using the Pilot One Pilot Tour feature.So the integration of the Pilot One camera with the Pilot Tour Virtual Tour platform, that's because EyeSpy360 for example, creates a 360 Virtual Tour and a 3D tour and interactive floor plans and hotspots and so fourth.So as a residential real estate photographer or a residential real estate agent or broker, if you're looking at two things; one is the camera the other is the platform. You might say well, even when Labpano Pilot One platform is firing on all cylinders, wouldn't it make sense to have a camera that is deeply integrated with the platform? And I would say yes, but unfortunately I don't believe that Pilot Tour will ever be as good as or as the platforms that I've just, the eight platforms that I have described.Given that, as much as I give Labpano props for a creating a this V-SLAM process essentially that a way to organize 360s in relationship to each other, in my mind it will always be a proof-of-concept that will never be as good as either the eight 360/3D platforms that I've mentioned or many more of the 130.So, and that becomes problematic because I could imagine that the Labpano Pilot Virtual Tour platform could inhibit other Virtual Tour platforms from wanting to integrate with the Labpano camera. So if lab, and that's because the perception may be that and perhaps true that Labpano is planning to attempt to compete with them by offering a free Virtual Tour platform.My feeling is any professional real estate photographer would likely choose a different 360 Virtual Tour platform from the Pilot Tour platform.I can't imagine a professional real estate photographer in a or real estate agent paying $1,200 for the Pilot One and being satisfied with the free Pilot Tour Virtual Tour platform. It's just, it's too basic, and even if Labpano's intent is to have a very sophisticated Pilot Tour platform for real estate agents, let's say they're at least five years behind trying to play catch-up.So there's two issues here for four Labpano; one, is trying to play catch-up with platforms that have five plus years of experience and then two, is having a platform that competes with the very thing that really gives the most value to the Pilot One is the ability to have easy, fast and seamless deep integrations with other Virtual Tour platforms.And, as I've shared, if the platform's feel that Labpano is going to compete with them by having this PilotTour Virtual Tour platform, it may mean that other virtual tour platforms will be super hesitant about providing integration knowing that it essentially is now perhaps helping the camera compete with it on the virtual tour platform side.So I'll come back, I want to talk a little bit more on this topic towards later in my review but I did want to cover some other points.Labpano Pilot One live-streaming. I did find it super easy to live-stream to Facebook. My Pilot One live-stream to Facebook, I've archived that, I've recorded it. It's available on my Facebook feed Dan Smigrod. S-M-I-G-R-O-D, easiest way to find it, come to the We Get Around Network Forum, go to the topic of Pilot One and you'll see that I write about my Pilot One live-stream on Facebook so that you can actually go see an actual Facebook live-stream that albeit recorded.Plus I was presently surprised about the excellent quality of the Pilot One streaming video. So, given the ease of use and the quality of the video, I challenge real estate photographers to imagine how we can offer this Pilot One Facebook live-streaming feature, as an Add-On for real estate clients. I think that something probably really new and only because it's so easy to do and the quality of the video now is really awesome.I could imagine using this feature for example, for amplifying an Open House and for doing a live walkthrough with the agent, that then continues to be available on the agents Facebook page. So any other Add-On opportunities is a real estate photographer that you see.My Labpano Pilot One beta testing recommendations are as follows; as a Pilot One beta tester, again I was given a camera, I was loaned a Pilot One camera and the good news is I would say is nearly everything that I would suggest that Labpano change or fix is likely a firmware upgrade.So here my following notes for Labpano but I think it's probably helpful if you're deciding about buying a Labpano Pilot One camera, any early concerns that I had.But again I think the vast majority of these could be fixed with a firmware upgrade. First, touchscreen keyboard. The letters and numbers and symbols on the Pilot One are simply too small to be practical.So you're presented with a keyboard, while this implementation of keyboard may work on a larger Big Brother Labpano Pilot Era camera, using the touchscreen keyboard on the Pilot One camera is extremely difficult and frustrating to enter the passwords for Wi-Fi.It's super hard. The good news is that the Pilot One has a great way that you set the date and time with a wheel that's kind of like a slot machine and you just keep aligning the wheels. So the process for entering passwords and tour names would be far, far easier with this wheel approach.So first let's identify the problem is that, I sometimes I think it's analogous that when first there was newspapers, then came along radio and radio first began reading the newspaper.Well, that wasn't exactly taking advantage of the medium and then came television and then television was like radio without picture and that wasn't taking advantage of the medium. So probably over stood to say the translation of a large keyboard that would work on a larger screen, simply does not work in to my level of satisfaction on a Pilot One camera.The screen, is the the touch screen is really big but a touchscreen keyboard simply does not work. In my opinion, it was super difficult to enter Wi-Fi, particularly my Wi-Fi where I have very long names for passwords and then for naming tours, it was super impractical being on location, trying multiple times to get the series of letters and keystrokes properly.So the good news is I think Labpano already has a great solution in its approach to the date and time that feels like a slot machine of rotating wheels to pick the date, pick the time. I think that would perfectly work for passwords and tour names.Next, the transitions between menus. It really needs to be obvious that you swipe left or right to move between menus. It needs to be obvious when you can swipe left or right and it needs to be obvious when and how to exit a menu. So Pilot Tour is so close to being awesome, but these things just weren't obvious to me and I even though there was documentation that documentation for us beta testers was somewhat limited and perhaps the documentation for when the camera actually ships will be much better.But again I don't even think that's something you should have to look at the documentation, I think that's one of the Mac-like experiences, is that it just works and it works as expected and I was at a loss about how to transition. So I found myself constantly pressing the physical home button to get back to the main menu, that's not a great workflow.Next is hemisphere shooting. Well, I found the timer hugely helpful for staying out of a shot. It's just not always possible to hide.So I'm sure you've probably been in this position particularly outside where there's just no tree or object to hide behind and if you get too far away from the camera using an app and Bluetooth then you lose the connection. So I could imagine either Labpano or a third-party offering a solution for staying near the camera, but not in the shot and then stepping around to the other side of the Pilot One to complete the shot. About the image gallery in the camera.Well, I'm so sorry, I didn't even bring my camera into the shot, but let's see if I can just turn it on to show this point here.So right here in terms of the image gallery, so I think you can see I think I have some videos that have showed up there. I found myself shooting a blank shot. Essentially I would hold my hands over the four lenses to separate tours. So it would be nice if a separator could automatically be added to separate tours and to separate groups of 360s.So for example, if you were doing or I was doing more than one apartment in the same day. So, in order to separate those groups of 360s, I'm holding my hands around the four lenses, I suspect that it wouldn't be that hard for Labpano to say, okay, there's the algorithm says there's so much time between the time this tour was done and this tour was done, certainly if it was separated by hours then just automatically insert a blank shot to differentiate the groups of 360s and then certainly it would be way easier to delete a blank than to try and figure out which apartment 360s were part of apartment one versus apartment two.Apartments looked the same. Where they certainly look the same when you're looking at a small screen.While I found uploading to my Dropbox super-easy, I would have liked for the videos to be checked that it was uploaded successfully. Now this feature was included, how to say this? In the midst of my beta testing, there was a firmware upgrade and so once I, when I began testing and I uploaded to Dropbox, I didn't have any way of knowing that it was updated to Dropbox, the good news is that feature was added to a firmware upgrade. And that's true for the following. ...I had made some notes to say, there are times when I need to upload some of the 360s but not all, I'm changing priorities of what needs that, I might have shot three tours in a day but the one of those tours may need to be uploaded before the others.In my beta testing, it was hard to keep track of which 360s I still needed to upload, plus, I would like to be able to select which 360s to upload if I did not want to upload everything to Dropbox at once, I had to upload 360s one at a time and it was hard to tell which ones I had already uploaded.For example, I could select multiple images, I was limited to deleting the multiple images with no option for uploading the selected multiple images. So anyway, the good news is I did do a firmware upgrade version 5.0.10 and that actually solved that problem. Of knowing what had been uploaded and what hadn't though I still think I'm having a little bit of difficulty recognizing which videos have been uploaded or not uploaded.I think the check mark has been added to the videos as well. Again, the good news on this list that I've described, they're all likely firmware updates.So if Labpano is an agreement with my recommendations, all these recommendations might be implemented even before the camera ships in March or later.And again, ... I updated to version 5.0.10. The firmware update was an easy Mac-like or iPhone-like experience. It just works as expected. That may seem obvious but I'm sure all of us had, had times where updating firmware was attaching it to a computer and finding the program and then transferring something to a folder.No, you just, the camera indicates that it's got a, it needs a firmware update, you accept and it does the upload and you're done. It's no connecting to a camera, really nice. There's a feature for adjusting a photo, let's call it a photo sphere or 360.It's an interesting feature but I couldn't figure out how to do a batch change. So the good news on the adjust photo which says it's in beta lets you change the brightness, gamma, the shadow, highlights, saturation and temperature, all that's good.But again, I couldn't figure out how to do a batch change and I would say unless I could, it's really super-unlikely that I would just want to edit one 360, I really want to edit one 360 and say Apply All and Apply All actually means, so for example, if I'm doing a tour and there's inside and outside, I'd want to apply the changes let's say, just to the indoor 360s, then edit one of the outside 360s and apply that as a batch change to the outside one. Now that said, I think most photographers are going to bring the images or either going to not do any adjustment or bring them into Lightroom and do the adjustments or a different software program. But that said, I think Labpano is super-close to having this Adjust Photo feature.All I'm looking for is to add the option of batch change and let me select which images I want to add to that batch. About Facebook, I would like an option to save the video to the camera, perhaps it's there and I couldn't figure it out, but I did some live-streaming to Facebook and while Facebook saves the video, I haven't figured out how to extract a Facebook video from Facebook, short of doing screen scraping, I don't really want to do that, I want to have it something that just works.So I'm not sure that I, if when I live-stream to Facebook, if there is an option for saving the video I didn't see it.So essentially I live-streamed to Facebook and I didn't get a video that was saved on the camera. I can only go to Facebook and have the video live there.Now, and one other I think item on Facebook is I would like to be able to set the countdown timer to go live. So when I hit, when I physically hit the button on the camera, I'd like when I go live to really mean I want to go live in five seconds and that way my hand is not in the shot.Now, I'm sure the Labpano Pilot Go App for iOS and Android, probably addresses that issue but I didn't spend enough time with the Pilot Go App to properly review that and frankly I would rather do it on the camera where I'm not guessing whether or not the app actually launched the camera. So, what else? So, I look forward to shooting 360 video. Now 360 video again somewhat outside the scope of a real estate photographers needs, I was really wanted focused on 360 photo spheres for Virtual Tour.Again I talked about Google Street View and unfortunately I did not get to test that. Hopefully Labpano will send me a GPS module and their recommended backpack so that I can do the map updates, the Google Street View map updates and add some blue lines in Atlanta.I do look forward though to shooting 360 video in March 2020 when my wife and I will be taking a week-long Western Caribbean cruise and I will also plan to shoot a 360 tour of our Miami hotel room. We'll be in a Miami hotel for the night before the cruise as well as our cruise ship suite.So my wife and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary, we've splurged on a suite on the ship and I would really like to capture that as a 360 tour and I'll plan to share this additional Pilot One content in the We Get Around Network Forum when we return.Labpano was gracious enough to extend the loan of the camera to me to accommodate our travel plans. Probably get some really nice beauty shots on the ship and on some of the islands and in Mexico. I did have a couple hardware improvements and these hardware improvements may be addressed even before the camera commercially ships but I'll point them out.The home button, Labpano stressed that the Pilot One camera that I received, hand labeled number 22, is beta hardware. So in their production run, Labpano may have already addressed the home button which feels like it's a tiny bit loose when I touch it. So I just felt like I didn't get the tactile response that I was expecting, it just feels a tinge loose.Again I'm using beta hardware, this may have already been addressed in the production run that begins shipping as early as March 2020.And then the next hardware is actually related to the case. So I found that this soft case it's very nice and it's a nice edition.I'd recommend two things to improve it. First, make it easier to put the soft case on the camera, I struggle with that, it's a snug fit and I think that's good, but I think it needs to be more like a funnel so that it starts out really wide and that makes it super-easy to pull it over the camera and then using the drawstring close the top big part of the funnel, I just felt that there wasn't enough material at the top and when I grab it and I put it over the, here let me see if I can just do this for you. So you get some sense of what's going on here.This is, my hands are near the lenses I don't like that, I suppose it went on, but I just felt like if it was wider at the bottom that, that would be a much better. Make it super-easy, make sure I'm not touching the lenses and there's always goes on easily and again it has a nice drawstring, I think that would close it nicely.Let's see, ah, and the second thing on the soft case, is it comes with a carabiner. So it's got this little carabiner here, it's attached to the case and I like this because there's a loop here and I can carry it on my pocket. The only problem is this is a $1,200 camera, this is not a $1,200 worthy carabiner, I would like to see a real substantive carabiner plus one that has a loop for closing it, so I don't have my carabiner open by accident and lose my $1,200 camera on my belt.So those are kind of the two hardware suggestions, obviously really small things in the scheme of it. Again, I think everything else can be addressed in firmware.So I did get some, I got some pushback on my original review in the, We Get Around Network Forum today in the Labpano community, Jocelyn Trowelburst, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly in the Netherlands Antilles. Let me read what he wrote and then let me see if I can respond to that.And so he writes, in part "Completely disagree with your point of view that Labpano should forget about the PilotTour platform. To the contrary the one using V-SLAM, the Pilot One using V-SLAM technology to determine camera position in virtual space is groundbreaking.It is a good proof of concept and further turning to make it work," and excuse me, and it says further, probably means, "In fine-tuning to make it work in practice will result in a huge time-saver for tour creators. What is the integration with other virtual tour platforms, Labpano surely is not going to give away its V-SLAM advantage, other platforms won't know how to handle the data." So respectfully Jocelyn I completely disagree with you, completely disagreeing, so let me see if I can break this down.So I'm going to read through and then kind of break it down. Completely disagree with your point of view that Labpano should forget about its PilotTour platform to the contrary the Pilot One using V-SLAM technology determine camera position in virtual space is groundbreaking.I absolutely agree with that, for a $1,200 camera to have this V-SLAM technology that lets each 360 know where it is in relationship to each other, that's amazing. And incidentally I think what happens is when you do the PilotTour, there's a message on here that says rocket this way and then rocket this way and so that calibration is probably making that V-SLAM possible.Again Jocelyn writes, "It's a good proof of concept and fine-tuning it to make it work in practice will result in a huge time-saver for tour creators." Jocelyn I absolutely agree with you on that.This is a amazing solution but again in my opinion and even as you write, it's a proof of concept to show what's possible.Where we start to verge is when you write, what is deep integration with other virtual tour platforms. So that's essentially saying the the Pilot One camera should be able to work with other platforms to take advantage of the V-SLAM advantage.So when you write that other platforms, when you write Labpano surely is not going to give away its V-SLAM advantage, other platforms won't know how to handle the data, I would suggest that Labpano should absolutely give away its V-SLAM advantage essentially powering as many of the 130 3D and 360 virtual tour platforms to work easy, fast and seamless with the Pilot One. Again the, we all shoot not because we want to shoot, we create these 360s because we want to share them.And it turns out that many of us are using all kinds of different platforms, literally if you come to the We Get Around Network Forum, we have a post where we list in a Google sheet a 130 3D and 360 platforms. And by the way, we also have a post in the We Get Around Network Forum on 50-plus 3D and 360 cameras.We maintain both those lists and Google sheets. This is such an opportunity for Labpano to knock it out of the ballpark to say, okay, one we showed all the platforms what's possible with PilotTour. We can do the constellation configuration automatically with your platform. So they demo how it's possible.Now, first beginning with those eight platforms that I've identified earlier, but then all the way right up through the list of a 130 3D and 360 platforms. Imagine how Labpano Pilot One and it's bigger brother Pilot Era will do when they crush the competition of the 50 other 3D/360 cameras by an offering to make it easy, fast and simple for every 3D and 360 platform to leverage the V-SLAM technology that's integrated in the Pilot One camera.So where you write that this is a competitive advantage that they'll never give up, there's two reasons they must give it up. One, is so that other platforms can take advantage of it and if you go back to my original thinking here that when a photographer is making a decision about which camera, they really need to make a decision about which platform first.And before you make a decision about which platform, about what the use cases are. But a real estate photographer, a residential real estate photographer and commercial real estate photographer are likely to zero in on a good chunk of those eight platforms.And right now, Pilot One is at a disadvantage because there's only a couple other cameras that actually check the box of those eight that I identified. So it's really important for Labpano to have Pilot One easy, fast and seamless integration with those eight platforms.And it's really important that they not, that Labpano not compete with its own Virtual Tour platform.So by Labpano offering Pilot Tour, it's essentially saying to other platforms, hey, we got something that's better than you have, we're going to compete with you and by the way we'd like to still have you deeply integrate.And that's the part where Pilot, where Labpano may shoot itself in the foot by competing with the other platforms. If it simply says about the Pilot Tour platform, this is a proof of concept but we're going to enable this and all these other tour platforms, it'll sell more cameras if it eliminates the competition of having Pilot Tour that will greatly accelerate third party camera integrations with the platform.And oh by the way, at the big picture level in the forward thinking, even if we all looked at Pilot Tour platform at its best case scenario that when the camera actually gets shipped the Pilot Tour worked, remember I've tested it in beta and it doesn't work, but I'll give it, I'll make the concession that I'm sure it will be working at the time that the camera ships commercially.The point is, there are there there are many other platforms that have five plus years of experience in residential and commercial real estate what a Tour looks like. Including a 3D view, the 360 Tour view, the floorplan view, the hot spots. And so, Labpano could make a decision to say okay, we're going to put a ...technical resources into Pilot Tour and once it does that, it's spending a lot of time and a lot of money on building out a platform that doesn't have a competitive advantage with other platforms. Now I suspect that Jocelyn would probably say, well, yes it does it has this vSLAM advantage.No, nom, that's just the technology of how the other platforms get to the final resolution. So for example, the EyeSpy360 Tour, they build the tour for you. Never mind if there's people in the background and it's a tour as a service business and it's presently done manually. The point is as a photographer, it is the tour is created for me and it was super simple to take my Pilot One shot 360s and upload it to the EyeSpy360 platform and have them build the the tour for me.If you were to take a look at EyeSpy360 versus Pilot Tour for example, you would, even if PilotTour was firing on all cylinders in its first year, it's still five years behind in all the bells and whistles that make EyeSpy360 resonate for virtual tour service providers in the residential and commercial real estate space.So Jocelyn respectfully, I disagree and I completely see how important it is for Labpano to have this PilotTour proof of concept but then to abandon it in favor of offering that feature to the 130 3D/360 Virtual Tour platforms and that's where the real value will come to Labpano as well as to residential and commercial real estate photographer and and Google Street View photographers because then we're not asking a photographer to both change for existing photographers in this space to change cameras and to change platforms.Best that they can still stay, that we can still stay with the platforms that of our choice and we just switch to a different camera to achieve that result in an easy, fast and seamless manner. So that's kind of my comment for Jocelyn and that's made with all respect. I think this is just, this may be one of those where we respectfully agree to disagree.Anyway that's kind of my review of the Labpano Pilot One.We have started a number of discussions in the We Get Around Network Forum, WGANforum.com, I hope you if you're watching on our YouTube channel or Vimeo channel in the WGAN-TV Training Academy, in the WGAN-TV Podcast, in the Apple Podcast app, wherever you're watching that We Get Around Network Forum, it's totally free, you don't need to be a member to read anything in the Forum.But if you want to join the conversation, totally free to join the forum, plus you get 50 plus membership benefits including the list of 50 3D/360 cameras, the list of 130 3D and 360 Virtual Tour platforms plus special offers on whenever there's products or services.So for example, on the Pilot One camera, you can get that free GPS module using our affiliate link WGAN.INFO/pilotone ... That's WGAN.INFO/pilotone ... WGAN.INFO/pilotone WGAN.INFO/pilotone WGANForum.comAnd we have offers like that all the time we automatically put them in an email that when you join the We Get Around Network Forum, you automatically receive an email from me that lists the 50-plus membership benefits with all the ways to redeem them simply for joining the We Get Around Network Forum.Anyway thanks for tuning in, I'm Dan Smigrod Founder of the We Get Around Network Forum, you've been watching WGAN-TV Live at 5:00.

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An amazing website in 7-10 days for Matterport Service Providers that are WGAN Standard or Premium Members
by Imagineer Consulting LTD Founder Angus Norriss
We all know it’s so hard to keep up with the number of benefits that we should be implementing across our websites in this niche, and provided by WGAN membership. 40+ WGAN Membership Benefits at my last count! Dan is a machine on that front!When I started there were many challenges that we all face;✓ How do I sell Matterport when I haven't scanned anything?✓ How do I diversify from Matterport scanning into other services such as drone, virtual staging etc?✓ How do I present the power of this camera to different industry niches?✓ How do I get online quotes?✓ How do I capture leads when I'm busy scanning?Questions answered below...Finally, there is a fast-activation website platform, done-for-you, one that builds Matterport-ready websites packed with WGAN benefits for newbies and seasoned pros. And it keeps up with Dan's benefits and answers these questions.It’s powered by www.3dvr.ioDeveloped by a seasoned digital marketing pro, Matterport Pro, and founder of Imagineer Consulting Ltd (Angus Norriss - me + my team). I achieved quick Matterport success and would like to help others, it's not easy sometimes and your personal brand, digital profile, often gets neglected. You do need to diversify, be discoverable and be memorable. I do this daily too and apply my learnings into the 3DVR.io service.This is how I can help you.3DVR.io have released the first product, the ‘Fast-Start Website’, as part of it’s exclusive digital marketplace aimed at helping Matterport Pro camera operators grow their digital-first presence.The ‘Fast-Start Website’ service provides a rapid installation, design and support of a customised website loaded with WGAN Standard Membership benefits, unlocking the power of your membership benefits to your audience.Features include:• 3D tour gallery of 15x professionally captures properties• Instant Quote calculator tailored to your pricing model• iPad demo• Mattervids Tours 5x• Real Estate Benefits Calculator• Presentation layouts for; Real estate, AEC, Commercial and Public/Cultural Spaces• Integrated Social Media footers• Personal Branding• Google Analytics• Boosted performance plugins• Fully Responsive across smart devices• Content Editing and Training• 1:1 design/editing supportIt doesn’t stop there…As your WGAN benefits grow, 3DVR.io bolt them on to your website for no extra fee, enabling you to focus on the things that matter, giving you peace of mind that your benefits are activated on your own website as they are made available.View Live Demo and More✓ WGAN Premium Members: FREE✓ WGAN Standard Members: $99/monthIt’s not a faceless chabot thingy! – it’s powered and supported by people you can talk to easily!Happy Customers so far:"As a new service provider I wanted to hit the ground running. Time was of the essence, given I wanted to launch ahead of competitors. At the same time I wanted to achieve excellence in my launch and accordingly, I was very choosy with whom I partnered. Angus exceeded my expectations! I provided direction and was blown away by the execution. Only a truly subject matter expert with technology and marketing expertise could have delivered such a premium product. I highly recommend him."(Aileen Hagert – Mexico in 3D)"Angus (3DVR) was absolutely instrumental in the development of my website. From creating my logo, to the overall sites design, I’m incredibly impressed. His attentiveness and communication during the building process was all the more impressive, as we are separated by more than 3,500 miles and 5 time zones. You would have never known. The incredible feedback I’ve received from clients about the overall design and flow of the website is fantastic. I don’t know where my business would be without him, and I’m glad I never will."(Blake Kilcoin – Future View Imaging)It's been tried and tested from Canada, UK, Mexico and USA – ramp up your WGAN profile with a ‘Fast-Start Website’ here.About Me:✓ 25 years+ digital experience helping brands around the world be amazing.✓ Imagineer Consulting Ltd – CEO✓ Google (APAC) - Strategy Director✓ OMD/Disney (EMEA) – Chief Digital Officer (Star Wars/Marvel/Frozen)I'd be delighted to help you.My best to you all and I hope the US folk had a Happy Thanksgiving,Angus

How to pursue and how to pitch the benefits of Matterport scanning
Hi All,For Matterport Service Providers, documenting property within businesses and inside of homes of high net-worth individuals for insurance underwriting and risk engineering may be the next big opportunity.Matterport 3D models will make a huge difference in how insurance underwriting and risk management are done today. By providing underwriters with the ability to pull up, on demand, a Matterport 3D model of a given location, underwriters will be able to do their jobs faster and more effectively.Matterport Meets Insurance Underwriting and Risk Management are the topics for WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | -5 GMT) on Wednesday, 11 December 2019.My guests will be Matterport Director of Accounts Brandon A. Donatelli - and Matterport Account Managjer Rodrigo Abreu – whom will walk us through this topic.For context for this WGAN-TV show, imagine that you are an insurance company. A business owner seeks millions of dollars in property insurance within a very large space.Before Matterport, insurance companies had few options when assessing the risk: essentially sending someone out to inspect and document.With a Matterport “Digital Twin,” it becomes possible for a Risk Engineer to inspect a property remotely and without compromising quality and much more cost-effectively (time and traveling savings).A Matterport 3D model, which can be quickly and easily captured, gives insurance companies the upside of virtual on-site inspections with none of the drawbacks.Among the questions that I will ask Brandon are:✓ what is insurance underwriting and how does this work today?✓ what is risk management and how does this work today?✓ what are the problems - the pain points - for insurance underwriting and and risk management?✓ Can you give us an example of each and highlight the pain points?✓ How does a Matterport 3D model solve these problems?✓ How does a critical mass of Matterport Pros help?✓ How does a Matterport Service Provider get this kind of business?What questions do you have for our guest?Matterport will disrupt – in a good way – how properties are inspected and analyzed. Watch this show to help you figure-out opportunities for your Matterport Service Provider business.Best,Dan

Two ways Matterport Service Providers can make money with CAPTATE 3D Tours
 
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WGAN-TV: Captate 3D Tour is like Matterport, but for Un-Built PropertiesHi All,----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) Thursday, 5 December 2019 is Captate Founder Conor Brady. Conor will demo and discuss Captate Solutions for Un-Built Properties.In addition to the Captate 3D Tour, Captate offers complementary CGI services (Animation, 3D Rendered images).Captate PricingSave This Date to My Calendar----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The next time that you meet with the Chief Marketing Officer of a residential Property Management Company, imagine this conversation:Your Prospect: Thank you for showing me Matterport. I  it. But, our next residential Community for young adults will not be built for 18 months. Can you circle back to me then to schedule Matterport?You: Yes. Of course. That said, we offer a solution like Matterport for un-built multi-family Developments. We can help you speed-up pre-sales and pre-leasing to millennials and international buyers by creating a 3D Tour now. Like Matterport, the 3D Tour is Cloud-based and it works on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers using Web-browsers like Chrome, Safari and Firefox for a seamless experience. Our solution for Un-built Residential Communities is called Captate 3D Tours.Here are two Captate 3D Tour examples:✓  Residential Pre-Sales/Pre-Leasing✓  Office/Commercial Pre-LeasingCaptate 3D Tour Features✓  Three ways to experience the Captate 3D Tour: walking, exterior and panorama✓  Actual view outside the windows (via your drone footage)✓  2D Schematic Floor Plans✓  Hotspots that link to video or a webpage (by 31 August 2019)✓  easy social sharing via Facebook, Twitter and Email✓  property description✓  lead generation link✓  white-label✓  share via link and embed on your websiteYou: To get started creating the Captate 3D Tour for you, all we need are your:✓  all available Architect's plans (2D, .RVT, .DWG)✓  interior space planner's renderings (some reference images or links as to how the interior will look)Your Prospect: Sounds GREAT! Sounds like it might cost a million dollars! How much?You: Here's the Captate pricing.Your Prospect: That's all?! WOW! Yes! Let's do it! I will ask our architect and space planner to place the Architect's files and rendering files in a Dropbox and send you a link.You: Great! Thank you for your business. We look forward to helping you Succeed Faster.---Two Ways for Matterport Service Providers to Make Money With Captate1. White Label: Make the spread between what you charge your client and what you pay Captate2. Affiliate Referral Program: Introduce Captate to your client and receive a commission on the projectTo learn more about Captate, please Private Message @Conor_Brady or Contact Captate.Best,DanP.S. Captate is a service of my friend and colleague of many years, @ConorBrady ... Here's what QB Studio Project Co-Founder and Director Alex Brennan has to say about working with Conor and the Captate team about this Captate 3D tour:“We worked with Captate to do an online tour of a commercial development in New Zealand. It was a very positive experience working with them – great communication, responsive and professional. Project was delivered on time and we exceeded our pre-leasing targets. Recommend.”Special Offer for We Get Around Network Forum Members✓ Ask @Conor_Brady at Captate for the Captate Special Offer for WGAN Forum Members, or complete this form✓ Captate Contact Us form

The one-year journey to be a Thriving Matterport Service Provider in in Idaho/Washington State
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Hi All,If you are thinking about getting started with Matterport – or still early in your Matterport Service Provider business journey, there is a ton of great insight in this (above) WGAN-TV show with Jeff Nitschke with CaptureNW serving North Idaho and Eastern Washington State.Topics Include:✓ A 'Snapshot' of CaptureNW today✓ Services Offered✓ Pricing✓ Unique Pricing Strategy✓ Matterport Pro2 3D Camera versus RICOH Theta Z1✓ How long to shoot a Matterport 3D Tour versus a Zillow 3D Home tour✓ Gear✓ How to get inside a brokerage✓ Syndication✓ Matterport 3D Showcase app✓ Pitching Real Estate Agents✓ Camera 'ready' real estate listings✓ Shooting a $20 million listing✓ Benefits of Matterport 3D Tour to homebuilders✓ Power of Blue Booties✓ Matterport 3D Tour shot with iPhone (beta)@lilnitsch ... much thanks for being my guest - and sharing your Matterport journey - on WGAN-TV Live at 5 yesterday (Thursday, 21 November 2019). And, thank you for being a WGAN Forum Member.Best,
Dan

The two-year journey to a thriving Matterport Service Provider Business
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Hi All,If you are a professional photographer thinking about getting started with Matterport, you might find it helpful to hear the journey of a successful Matterport Service Provider.My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) this Wednesday (20 November 2019) is Grays Lake, IL based Matterport Service Prover 3D RoomScapes Founder Ross R. Zanzucchi (@rzphotoman).✓ WGAN-TV Live at 5: Matterport Customer Journey: Ross R. Zanzucchi with 3D RoomScapesI will ask Ross about his Matterport Service Provider business today and his nearly two-year journey to get there.Dan

Plus, Ben Claremont on: Which 360º Camera you Should Buy for Virtual Tours
Hi All,On WGAN-TV Live at 5 (above) earlier today (Wednesday, 13 November 2019), 360º Subject Matter Expert, Mentor and Virtual Tour Pro Course Creator Ben Claremont discusses:✓ Top 10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Tour Business✓ Which 360º Camera you Should Buy for Virtual Tours✓ Virtual Tour Pro course for learning how to plan, shoot, edit, host and the business of Virtual ToursSpecial WGAN Offers1. Free 3-months WGAN-TV Training Academy Membership when you Enroll in Virtual Tour Pro Course by Ben Claremont with this WGAN Affiliate Link for Virtual Tour Pro course by Ben Claremont.2. Save 15 percent on Virtual Tour Pro with the WGAN Coupon Code (You automatically receive this WGAN coupon code when you join the free WGAN Forum. Already a Member? Private Message me for the WGAN Coupon code for Virtual Tour Pro.3. Free Virtual Tour Pro Course by Ben Claremont when you:✓ pre-pay for 24 months of WGAN Standard MembershipBest,DanBen Claremont LinksYouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Bio | Courses | Virtual Tour Pro Course | Virtual Tour Pro Course Curriculum

Matterport Director, Business Development Tomer Poran
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This is a "must watch" WGAN-TV show if you are in the insurance-Remediation-Restoration Space or are a Matterport Service Provider trying to understand the space and opportunities for Matterport Pros.
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Hi All,When a house has a flood or fire, Matterport there are many ways Matterport can help with:✓ document flood and/or fire damage✓ document remediation✓ help plan restoration✓ help with marketing to show before/afterPlus, there are at many opportunities for Matterport Service Providers when there is fire or flood damage.On WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) on Thursday, 7 November 2019, Tomer Poran - Matterport Director, Business Development, Head of Partnerships and New Market Development (and Matterport Insurance Subject Matter Expert) - will be my guest on the show.To help us understand the the challenges and opportunities for Matterport Service Providers in the Matterport meets Insurance space, I will ask Tomer to:1. walk us through the mitigation, remediation and restoration companies' residential customer journey2. show examples of Matterport 3D tours during the phases of the customer journey3. identify the stakeholders4. identify the use cases for the Matterport 3D Tour and MatterPak during the customer journey5. discuss challenges, opportunities and additional gear needed for Matterport Service Providers6. Jargon: Xactimate, Mitigation, Remediation, Restoration, Smoke Trails, moisture points, psychometric readings7. take questions from viewers (at the end of the show)What questions would you like me to ask Tomer during the show?Best,DanP.S. Add this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show to your calendar (optional: and receive reminders)

84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View.
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Hi All,"We found, in a survey that we ran in 2018, that 84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View. We also found in that survey that 71% of photographers that use the Google Street View function with Matterport have found it the fastest way to upload to Google Street View," said UK-based Matterport VP James Morris-Manuel at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in an interview with WGAN-TV.If you are not using Matterport to publish to Google Street View, why not?[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]Best,DanTranscript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)Hi, I'm James Morris-Manuel, I'm the VP for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Matterport and we're at the 2019 Google Street View Summit here in London. It's been a very exciting two days. We've been talking about lots of different contents and how things can be uploaded and provided to Google Street View.Just to talk you through where Matterport's at, this is our workhorse camera, this is the Pro2 Camera that Matterport has designed and invented. We have changed the way our business ingests content in the last couple of quarters so essentially we now can accept content from the Ricoh Theta V and the Ricoh Theta Z1 as well as the Insta360 One X.You can capture content with these devices, upload it to the Matterport platform. Our AI then makes that become 3D so you get the full Matterport 3D experience that you're used to with the Pro2 camera. From there, you can then upload to Google Street View.We found, in a survey that we ran in 2018, that 84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View. We also found in that survey that 71% of photographers that use the Google Street View function with Matterport have found it the fastest way to upload to Google Street View.It's been very useful for travel and hospitality especially, where clients have captured the lobby and then uploaded the lobby of a hotel to Google Street View. Also, with leisure and some of commercial real estate as well. Thank you very much.

 Insta360 Global Marketing Project Manager Beichen Nie at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in London.
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Hi All,"You can shoot first and then reframe with this camera as well," says Insta360 Global Marketing Project Manager Beichen Nie at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in a WGAN-TV interview."You can basically make sure you're always in the post by reframing the VR footage. That way, you don't have to worry about not being in the frame or missing any shots. You can always get yourself in the frame with this camera."How might you use this technique to make money in shooting residential real estate?WGAN Forum discussions tagged: Insta360 One X[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]Best,DanTranscript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)Hello everyone. I'm Beichen from Insta360.This is our Hero [Insta360] One X product. The One X is a 360 action camera, so it can shoot 5.7K videos at 30 FPS.You can also do slow-mo videos at 50 FPS and 100 FPS. With this camera, you can get amazing FlowState Stabilization, where you can put cameras onto different occasions like extreme sports, skiing, mountain biking, all the skating, all the different action sports, and you still get the super smooth footage straight from the camera; gimbal-level.You don't need to buy expensive VR gimbal to get this footage. You can shoot first and then reframe with this camera as well.You can basically make sure you're always in the post by reframing the VR footage.That way, you don't have to worry about not being in the frame or missing any shots. You can always get yourself in the frame with this camera.

Ricoh Head of Global Marketing Thijs Ekelschot at the Street View Summit in London.
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Hi All,"[Ricoh makes] 360 content creation, very simple. We integrate now with Matterport or we're working closely with Matterport content creators, but with Matterport itself as well. Obviously to simplify the workflow for creativity, virtual tours for creating content," said Ricoh Head of Global Marketing Thijs Ekelschot in a WGAN-TV interview at the 2019 Google Street View Summit."Big difference between these two cameras is when we introduced Theta V where the very good high performing camera, but these are only at 14 million pixels for stitch files. Whereas with Theta Z1 we increased this to 23 million pixels, one inch sensor, shooting in raw, which is the feature that many professionals were asking about."How have you liked shooting with the Ricoh Theta Z1?WGAN Forum discussions tagged:✓ Ricoh Theta V✓ Ricoh Theta Z1[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]Best,DanTranscript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)Hi, my name Thijs Ekelschot, so I work for Ricoh and as you might know, Ricoh is a manufacturer of this one, the Ricoh Theta and this one, Ricoh Theta V, Ricoh Theta Z1 that we introduced earlier this year.Obviously we're really pleased with these cameras. We make 360 content creation, very simple. We integrate now with Matterport or we're working closely with Matterport content creators, but with Matterport itself as well. Obviously to simplify the workflow for creativity, virtual tours for creating content.Why are we here? Why are we at a Google Street View conference? Obviously it's our ambition to make sure that there's as many people out there as possible to create good 360 content.Big difference between these two cameras is when we introduced Theta V where the very good high performing camera, but these are only at 14 million pixels for stitch files. Whereas with Theta Z1 we increased this to 23 million pixels, one inch sensor, shooting in raw, which is the feature that many professionals were asking about.So we started to introduce lots of more features for the professionals, and hopefully this is a camera to your liking. So I would encourage everybody to start using it, discover it, work with it in Matterport, Google Street View, any platform, because it's just a fantastic camera.Thank you very much.

LCP360 (Panoskin) CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in London
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Hi All,Got a GoPro Fusion and wondering how to publish to publish to Google Street View?".. any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion - whether it's by car or hiking - you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View," said LCP360 CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in a WGAN-TV interview."So you can create the Google -blue line- Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method."WGAN Forum discussions tagged:✓ TrailBlazer✓ GoPro Fusion✓ GoPro Fusion 2 (expected to be announced 1 October 2019)✓ Panoskin Pro[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]Best,DanTranscript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)Hi, so my name's Tom Chomiak.I'm with Panoskin, we're the developers of TrailBlazer.TrailBlazer is a desktop application that's available for both Windows and Mac OS.It's free for everyone to use. Once you download it, you could use it with the GoPro Fusion.And, any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion whether it's by car or hiking, you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View.So you can create the Google "blue line" Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method.So please check us out, it's taketrail.com.Once again you can download it for both [...] Mac OS and Windows.