What CoStar's Acquisition of Matterport Means for Real Estate Photographers

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26 daysDanSmigrod (31629): @toddwaddington #ugh! Wish it was better news Dan

Why CoStar planned acquisition of Matterport is Good News for Competitors

DanSmigrod

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26 daysDanSmigrod (31629): https://e3effa51eee72fd900e3-2fb779bd12ec72d4612275342f2c9187.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/26c9b6ffde87bf5f49681b23971583e9.png https://e3effa51eee72fd900e3-2fb779bd12ec72d4612275342f2c9187.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/40f8b0ccc90c161ddf37e43e7cbbee95.png CoStar Group Completes Acquisition of Matterport, Ushering in a New Era of 3D Digital Twins and AI-Powered Real Estate Innovation Dan Friday, 28 February 2025

Video: 2025 is the Year of A.I. for Real Estate Photographers

DanSmigrod

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3 monthsGlennTremain (2953): @DanSmigrod I did but chatgpt is not all encompassing like google is. It has limits that google does not for my industry as 99% of clients uses google during their search. I am going to make a video about your video soon. Great stuff

6 Reasons Why Matterport Will Launch Project Genesis Monday (3 June 2024)

DanSmigrod

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6 monthsDanSmigrod (31629): https://e3effa51eee72fd900e3-2fb779bd12ec72d4612275342f2c9187.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/f37f1165b44578c3fe7036149f522a4a.png Matterport Post on LinkedIn Monday, 23 September 2024 Hi All, Looks like my prediction was "only" four months off :cool: Best, Dan

5 Reasons Matterport News Today (15 Feb) is Great News for Matterport Pros

DanSmigrod

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1 yearlilnitsch (5803): @BrookHampton Thee new features require the newer hosting plans

How Matterport Can Succeed Faster with a $25 Million Fund for SDK Partners

DanSmigrod

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1 yearDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Looks like Matterport is moving away from even adding new Matterport Technology partners (please see below) from this WGAN Forum discussion: Matterport is not actively accepting new requests for partnership? I could imagine that Matterport thought that the revenue opportunity from Matterport Partners was licensing API usage. The bigger revenue opportunity is turning Matterport models (tool) into a solution made possible by...

Why I believe Matterport will announce something big on Tuesday, 8 August

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Please see this WGAN Forum discussion for examples of what can be done with the Matterport SDK: ✓ List: Matterport Partners and Additional Value-Added Solutions Hi All, I was wrong. Matterport did not announced something big on Tuesday, 8 August, 2023. Dan

9 Thoughts About Matterport Layoffs of 170 Employees (30% of Company)

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): https://youtu.be/g1JYNoHtnRcVideo: 9 Thoughts About Matterport Layoffs of 170 Employees (30% of Company) by We Get Around Network Founder and Managing Editor Dan Smigrod | Video courtesy of WGAN-TV YouTube Channel | 17 July 2023 [podbean]https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-gk4j6-145a3bc[/podbean] WGAN Forum Podcast | Episode #210 https://youtu.be/YbjMZjnvYWEVideo: Matterport Layoffs do they MTTR? | Video courtesy Hopscotch Interactive YouTube...

Matterport Genesis Generative AI Magic>Will it Make Competitors Irrelevant?

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Inman (22 June 2023) [url=nman.com/2023/06/21/matterports-genesis-doubles-down-on-digital-twin-management/]Matterport's Genesis doubles-down on digital twin management[/url] Matterport sets another benchmark for digitally immersive real estate marketing with creation of Genesis, which upon release, will allow users to quickly insert, move, edit and redesign interiors within created spaces --- Free 90 day trial of Inman with this WGAN...

Matterport's Sweet Spot is Spatial Data for Enterprise at Scale

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): https://youtu.be/ZCkHGWSYiTQVideo: Matterport Announces Genesis | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 14 June 2023 --- Hi All, This is a great example of the best, highest use-case of Matterport spatial data (announced Wednesday, 14 June 2023): => Matterport Announces Genesis: A Generative AI Initiative to Transform How Buildings are Designed, Built, and Managed Your thoughts? Dan P.S. Matterport video (above)...

Why I believe will make a major announcement soon

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Matterport distributes media releases on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Best, Dan

Five Reasons to Be Among the First to Buy a Matterport Pro3 Camera

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=MyiqGbXVSFCMatterport Leica BLK360 Scanner shot Tour courtesy of Birmingham, Alabama-based RKO Photography President Roger Owens WGAN-TV | Matterport Pro3 Camera: First Impressions; plus, Pro3 versus Pro2 and Pro3 versus Leica BLK360 | Guests: Greater Birmingham, Alabama-based RKO Photography President Roger Owens (@rko1) and RKO Photography Vice President Kay Owens | Thursday, 6 October 2022 | RKO...

Why Matterport Should Buy RSET: the Emergency Responder Training Platform

DanSmigrod

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2 yearsRSET (85): Well we would certainly be thrilled if Matterport invested in us! :D

Why Matterport will Build/Sell a Leica BLK360 Clone for Less Than $7,500

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, My prediction in January 2022 looks spot-on: ✓ Matterport Pro3 LiDAR Camera/Scanner (Officially) Announced (Media Release) Matterport Pro3 Camera is priced at $5,999 USD and includes: 1. Pro3 Camera in Carry Case 2. One Tripod Mount 3. One Battery and Charging Kit 4. One Year Warranty The Matterport Pro3 Acceleration Kit offers the best value at $7,995 USD. This bundle includes everything needed for a full day of capture: 1....

Will Matterport be Acquired by Hexagon?

DanSmigrod

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Matterport has $562 million in cash, as of 30 June 2022. I continue to believe this cash may be used to help buy Matterport. Matterport Media Release (10 August 2022) Matterport Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results, with Stronger-than-Expected Subscription Revenue and Non-GAAP EPS Dan

Mastering Mattertraffic - Webinar - Thursday, May 19th

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Reminder: Starts at Noon ET today, Thursday, 19 May 2022. (Registration Link above). Best, Dan

Matterport Axis Will Help Democratize the Creation and Use of Digital Twins

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3 yearsBrokerBruce (281): I understand that Matterport does much more than residential real estate tours. But as a Realtor® here in Hampton Roads with the pace of our sales and a .8 months supply of available listings there is no time to hire out a tour. By the time you'd hire someone & get the tour back and into your listing it's under contract. That's one reason I started to shoot my own, originally with Matterport and now using Inside Maps. Matterport...

WGAN-TV eBook-Matterport Timeline>2014-2022-Milestones/Insight/Commentary

DanSmigrod

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): [issuu]https://issuu.com/wegetaroundnetwork/docs/wgan-tv_matterport_timeline[/issuu] WGAN-TV eBook | | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | WGAN-TV Podcast:[/b] | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | Guest: [c | Episode: 132 | Thursday, 27 January 2022 WGAN-TV: | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | Guest: [c | Episode: 132 | Thursday, 27...

WGAN-TV Podcast-Matterport Timeline>2014-2022-Milestones/Insight/Commentary

DanSmigrod

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): [podbean]https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vpcny-118a034/wgan-tv-podcast-video-all[/podbean] WGAN-TV Podcast | Please See WGAN-TV Podcast #132 | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | WGAN-TV Podcast:[/b] | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | Guest: [c | Episode: 132 | Thursday, 27 January 2022 https://youtu.be/94u5w2CYQLQEmily Olman Video: Matterport Timeline 2014-2022 | Video...

Transcript: Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones/Insight/Commentary

DanSmigrod

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): WGAN-TV: | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | Hopscotch Interactive Founder Emily Olman (@Hopscotch) | Episode: 132 | Thursday, 27 January 2022 https://youtu.be/94u5w2CYQLQEmily Olman Video: Matterport Timeline 2014-2022 | Video courtesy of Hopscotch Interactive | @Hopscotch Interactive | 14 January 2022 [podbean]https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5pbi9-118fcae[/podbean]WGAN Forum Podcast (Audio Only...

WGAN-TV | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight & Commentary

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3 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): WGAN-TV: | Matterport Timeline: 2014-2022 | Milestones, Insight and Commentary | Guest: Hopscotch Interactive Founder Emily Olman (@Hopscotch) | Episode: 132 | Thursday, 27 January 2022 [podbean]https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5pbi9-118fcae[/podbean] WGAN Forum Podcast (Audio Only Version) Hi All, Thanks to Hopscotch Interactive Founder Emily Olman (@Hopscotch) for walking us through the Hopscotch Interactive timeline for Matterport...

10 Reasons Matterport will acquire GeoCV

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4 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Well, looks like I am not so great on making predictions ... ✓ Matterport and GeoCV Reach Settlement in Two-Year Matterport Lawsuit Dan

Matterport Survey: a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?

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5 yearsleonherbert (903): @JuMP righty oh then, suppose I am a sheep then, mmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Thankfully that is your personal opinion

Is Matterport a Service Company or is Matterport a Software Company?

DanSmigrod

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5 yearsGETMYVR (1941): A few weeks ago my best friend in LA told me to knock on every door in my neighborhood, then move on to the next neighborhood and then the next, but told me to scan every residence for free in exchange to giving the homeowner the raw file. He suggested I keep all this data on a server not connected to the internet. I own all the tours. I would tell the owner if you ever think about selling the house let me know we'll process your tour You don't...

In 2014, I Proposed What is Now: Matterport Capture Services Business Model

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5 yearsChangesin3d (125): So they modeled after your idea? What about the Matterport Service PARTNERS Program that was part of the camera sale, you know where they would give us leads. What happened to that? Now they have changed their logo that is not even available, is that correct? No more PARTNERS? I have not see the new logo for that service. Have you or anyone else see those promised leads? Are they now converting those leads into this service? This...

Three 360º Cameras Matterport Should Integrate with Matterport Capture App

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5 yearsleonherbert (903): Is it not up to the vendor to integrate with Matterport? I thought they provide the sdk that the vendor then connects with. But I don't know.

An Open Letter to GeoCV Co-Founders CEO Anton Yakubenkoz/CTO Gleb Krivovyaz

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5 yearsAntonYakubenko (686): It means that we don't have any particular plans to terminate GeoCV Cloud services anytime soon. And given there are no such plans, we can't translate "foreseeable future" into any particular period of time.

Matterport + All 360º Cameras = Exponential Growth (for all of us)

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5 yearsGarySnyder (2143): @DanSmigrod This has always been MP's game plan. Those of you who started with MP will recall 5 years ago MP was showing a video of a chap shooting a room with an iPad that produced a MP model. We discussed this here https://www.wegetaroundnetwork.com/topic/43/what-is-matterports-business-model/ 5 year ago and MP even has an early example of teaming up with Google in project Tango...

GSV views data, how to extract it?

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6 yearsWingman (4426): Got feedback from the client after I sent her all views data. She is impressed with results and she is going to send all data to the top management level. So far they have about 1000 panos done by me in a few different tours. They received about 80000 views on Google Maps in about 30 days. Plus I have another 1000 that I will publish as soon as I get a reply from Dee about combining some of them in one big model for publishing.

Matterport + Meero + VRBO/HomeAway = Exponential Growth

DanSmigrod

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6 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, A related WGAN Forum discussion: ✓ Slides from HomeAway/VRB0 Webinar for Property Managers Today 12 June 2019 Dan

Why Matterport's addition $48,000,000 in funding is fantastic news for MSPs

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6 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Three reasons why Matterport's additional $48 million in funding is fantastic news for Matterport Service Providers: 1. Acquisitions – I could imagine Matterport scaling via acquisitions such as GeoCV, RoOomy and other services that add huge value to the Matterport ecosystem 2. Marketing to Homeowners Likely to Sell Their Home – I could imagine Matterport – finally – creating demand for Matterport 3D Tour by marketing...

How Matterport can - and must - scale exponentially

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6 yearsWingman (4426): As for convincing vendors to use virtual tours it was my first idea how to sell Matterport tours. I was going to drive around to every local property advertised for sale and drop some flyers into their letterboxes explaining of all benefits of using a virtual tour. However at this point we do not want to piss off all local agents by going to their customers behind their backs until they say "no" to virtual tours. Some of them are...

Imagine one company ordering 20,000+ Matterport 3D Tours

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6 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): @VTLV I do want to keep the company and industry confidential. That said, I will play "20 Questions" once: it is not Subway, McDonalds or Burger King. The outreach by [redacted] is an on-going use case; plus, we all would be super-excited to see this company move forward with this use case. We would all say, "Yes! Finally a major company that understands the potential for Matterport to: 1) Make a company money 2) Save a...

Question of the Day: What does it mean that Matterport now has a new CEO?

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6 yearsVTLV (2916): We get a new CEO announced in other news sources and nothing from the company in my email this week. Not feeling very hopeful about this one. What ever remarks he's made about the current tour inventory clearly support what the shareholders want back for returns. Returns they're not getting after 5 years of investing from Camera and hosting fees.

Matterport The New GoPro ?

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7 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): @Gerhard Great find. Thanks for sharing. 08:22 (Wait for it. Wait for it.) 11:04 (Bad execution) 11:45 (sounds like what happened to FLIP) 12:00 connectivity from the field Dan

Brain Teaser: What would you do differently?

DanSmigrod

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7 years3SixtyNow (484): It's not as easy as 1, 2, 3. They oversimplify the process, a bit misleading in my book.

A "Must Read" WGAN Forum Discussion

DanSmigrod

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7 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, While you may not be interested in this discussion (and related video) - based on its title .... ✓ $49 for OBJ File Thank You Matterport ... it is a "must read" WGAN Forum Discussion because the discussions cover many additional topics that are important to anyone that owns - or is thinking about buying - a Matterport Camera. Best, Dan

Exponential Growth Coming Soon to Matterport

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7 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Hopefully, Matterport to Google Street View happens sooner than later. Best, Dan

An Amazing Magic Carpet Ride of Matterport

DanSmigrod

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7 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): @LetMe3D Thank you for your super-kind note. I could imagine Matterport offering a Pro non-branded white-label version (when other companies show the way...) They could make more money and the Pro community would be happy. Yes. The We Get Around Network Forum - is a Community - eager to give/get help. Thanks for acknowledging that and for being part of the giving/getting help. Best, Dan

Matterport Cloud to Support Other Cameras?

DanSmigrod

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7 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): @Metroplex360 Yes! Exciting to see Matterport doing this alliance ... Dan

Matterport and Leica partnering in 2018

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7 yearsandreabortolot (199): @Dan Good news! Hopefully we could integrate other scanners.Indeed BLK360 is quite expensive.I don't see reasonable for a MP photographer spend 15k only to have a more detailed dollhouse. Bear in mind this scanner don't align scans as Mp do...They have to be georeferenced manually in post production. I see more reasonable (if necessary) purchase a 5k scanner from a Uk based company called Effortless.

Preparing Matterport for IPO or Acquisition

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8 yearsVTLV (2916): @DanSmigrod - You hit the nail on the head of where was Matterport is at and where have they come since the beginning. In there, I think the CEO is having issues moving inventory as they try to create better quality and hang onto his job with investors waiting for a return at years 3-5 on their investment. Most right offs happen in the first five years before failing or hiding growth into costs of doing business. It's obvious, that our hosting...

Index>Comparing 3D/VR Platforms for Scanning

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8 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): Hi All, Would you like a free 38-page interactive .pdf of this analysis? It's free when you join the We Get Around Network Forum. Already a Member? Please PM me for the link to download the free .pdf. Best, Dan

Matterport Shoots Itself in the Foot (Again)

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8 yearsJonJ (1760): @3dshowcaseuk, What you are asking is completely doable. This is exactly how one of the companies that outsources work via the WGA network operates. They create unique credentials and the MSP sourced, logs into their capture app with those credentials, scans the property and uploads it to the contracting companies account. The MSP is not responsible for processing fees, but can log into the my.matterport.com account to verify the scan and...

Thought-Starters-Growing Demand for 3D Tours

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9 yearsDanSmigrod (31629): @Tosolini love it! Matterport meets Gamers meets 101 uses for Matterport I look forward to reading more about your CES 2016 thoughts here. Best, Dan