Is the Openhaus platform still alive?20948
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JamesG private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I have recently read multiple accounts of Openhaus being a ghost ship. Here are a couple: "Hi all. Has anyone been using OpenHaus to enhance their Matterport offering? I stupidly used it on a clients tour and now I feel duped. It doesn't seem to support some of the features I saw in promotional vids. Their Youtube Channel is abandoned. No one answers emails and the 'talk to us' button on the website is a dummy icon. Dead company existing to keep taking subs?" (posted 10 days ago on Matterport subreddit) "Hello all, I tried multiple times to contact openhaus.app through their website, they didn't reply. Does anyone know what is the situation with this overlay platform? Thank you in advance." (posted almost a year a go on WGAN forum) I have tried to reach out to OpenHaus via email a few times myself and have not heard back. In the past I've had great communication with their team, namely with Carson and Christian, although that was a couple years ago now. Anyone heard anything? |
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MeshImages private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I have an active Openhaus subscription at a very low and very friendly monthly rate. But I can also confirm, that there has not been further development, news or subscriber outreach via Email in the last 18 months. I have 5 or 6 test and demo spaces running on Openhaus. Openhaus has great and unique features (Openhaus themes, mirror mattertags to Matterport, etc.) and the best E-commerce-integration that I have tested so far. But unfortunately there was no sustainable market for Matterport E-Commerce-Tours and obviously @Carson and his team could not build a Matterport SDK Overlay system, that would pay their bills. I think they just keep Openhaus active for their early adopter clients. I´m not sure, if Matterport-E-Commerce tours will ever have a market potential. Neither if Matterport will ever go through the roof in other market verticals than property marketing or in the rest of the world outside of the United States. But for successful immersive e-commerce-solutions we will need much more 3D quality, and more magic and immersion, than Matterport will ever be able to provide. And I think, that Openhaus is one of the examples that confirms this. They had great ideas, great design and coding creativity. But Matterport was not the right platform for their approach. |
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ron0987 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Too bad it seems like another good idea that will fall to the wayside, so sad. | ||
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Meidansha private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @MeshImages Captur3D and MPEmbed are still going strong. The former because Australian real estate brokers use them the latter because the developers scan and create tours themselves. I agree that many aspects of 3D virtual tours conceived during the COVID lockdowns aren’t surviving. The rate of development in 3D visuals pushes the high end while not being able to drive the onsite cost of capture any lower (without pushing the capture technicians out of business) holds the cheaper solutions back. This hits Matterport and the technicians using it hard as there are cheaper options still and there is no middle ground (which is where Matterport finds itself). However, it seems once again the technicians have the upper hand because they can choose the technology to bring to the client (think Realsee etc). The technician that realises this will be able to profit from it. Matterport will survive the next couple of years as its past 5 years of marketing have been aimed at large enterprises that needed a simplified portal to allow multiple stakeholders to access. Most of their price increases seem to be aimed at this group of users (large corporations). But it is clear that they “don’t need us”. Whether Matterport will survive 5 more years will depend on whether they employ a workforce to scan buildings or provide better conditions for independent technicians (in the form of easier to use and more affordable plans at the lower end). Without good conditions for the technicians there will be no workforce to draw on for big enterprises who want to scan their assets but not invest in equipment or waste their own resources on spinning cameras. |
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