An Open Letter to GeoCV Co-Founders CEO Anton Yakubenkoz/CTO Gleb Krivovyaz10216

Originally Posted by @Convrts

This is pretty hard to hear.... we made the investment in a GeoCV system largely because the product was being improved as we went along and we felt we were part of something which was growing into a great product. It's not a cheap option without this promise so now we have to yet again re-evaluate our business after responding to the Matterport changes ... what a year this is turning out to be!!

Originally Posted by @GarySnyder

@AntonYakubenko congrats on the acquisition. I was really hoping that GeoCV would continue on as the innovation you and your team have shown over the last couple of years have been breathtaking and really set the bar for what 3D capture is capable of producing unlike others who have promises innovation but were short on delivery.

What will be the future of those who have the camera? Will you make the present processing technology open source so other can continue to develop the technology?

I wish you and your team great success in your new partnership with Occipital. Fingers crossed we have not heard the last of a device which can produce similar [Virtual Open House] results.

Please keep this forum updated on any future plans and developments for your new venture.

Originally Posted by DanSmigrod
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Originally Posted by @immersivespaces
I don't see GeoCV maintaining their current customers for very long. The stellar customer support that everyone has raved about will end on October 8, 2019, and I predict that the service itself will start to degrade very shortly thereafter until, ultimately, the platform is shuttered permanently. All that is happening now I believe is they are milking every last drop of revenue out of their current paying base to appease their investors. By all accounts GeoCV didn't "merge" with Occipital, Occipital simply hired some of the former GeoCV team and GeoCV is going out of business; a slow burn death for us all to see.

Respectfully, I disagree.

GeoCV expects to win the Matterport lawsuit and re-boot GeoCV.

To help accomplish this re-boot, it's essential that the GeoCV earlier adopters - WGAN Members like @Home3D @Tosolini @Metroplex360 @Convrts (and many, many more) - have the best possible experience.

As you know, as a long-time reader and contributor to WGAN Forum, GeoCV Co-Founder and CEO @AntonYakubenko is also a long-time reader and contributor to the WGAN Forum as well. Anton has always answered questions in a timely manor. He obviously listens to the WGAN Community (which may explain why he nailed the features that professional photographers seek.)

My sense is that Anton deeply cares about his customers (and potential future customers) and wants to do everything possible to make this a positive experience within his ability to do so.

Entrepreneurs are inherently optimistic. Perhaps Anton is too optimistic that he will be able to re-boot. That said, I would give Anton the benefit of the doubt that he will do everything that he can for early GeoCV Beta testers - early adopters to have a positive experience.

Time will tell ...

Best,

Dan

Originally Posted by Home3D
@Convrts - As far as I'm aware, GeoCV Indoor-Outdoor process is fully available. @AntonYakubenko, can you confirm? The catch is that it's now "do-it-yourself" following their instructions. I've only done this once so far, but it worked perfectly.

Just my speculation, but these instructions were released only about 4-5 weeks ago and I'm guessing they did so precisely because they knew that direct support to assemble these was having to end and they wanted to give us the ability to continue making these.

Hmm, I guess that means instead of GeoCV tech team to assemble Indoor-Outdoor, you're stuck with only advice from me out here in LA. But I assure you, you can do this yourself. My first attempt took some time due to the learning curve, but came out perfect. Here it is:



By the way, for everyone who did buy into the GeoCV beta group, I would personally love to know who all of you are. We're sorta orphaned now so we may need each other. Most of the new features GeoCV delivered in the past few months, I have tried and all work, including:

1) Downloading panos after a model is processed, tweaking them in Lightroom or Photoshop and re-installing them to your model
2) Uploading aerial panos, adding them as Viewpoints to your Highlights
3) Building 3D Outdoor models with DroneDeploy, exporting these, aligning them to processed GeoCV Indoor models using CloudCompare, and uploading to GeoCV for reprocessing into Indoor-Outdoor tours

Things I have not done include Self-Hosting, so I don't have expertise there.

Dan, perhaps you can help all us GeoCV beta shooters to connect.

Originally Posted by DanSmigrod
@Home3D

If you would still like to do a WGAN-TV Live at 5 show on How to combine outdoor-indoor GeoCV Tour - I am still up for it to help those that are GeoCV Kit Beta Customers.

Perhaps @Convrts could join us and you show and tell him how. He asks questions and WGAN-TV records the show for those that would like to do this too.

If we promote the show a week or two out, perhaps some additional GeoCV Service Providers can join the WGAN-TV Live at 5 show to participate in the discussion.

Your thoughts?

@Convrts how about you?

Best,

Dan

Originally Posted by Home3D
@Convrts - Be aware that when you replace panos in a GeoCV tour with others, the alignment of everything within the two panos must be, for all practical purposes, identical. Before I do a replacement with a different pano, I load both into Photoshop, layer them with original below and copy above, set the copy to 50% transparency and then adjust the replacement shot so that it PERFECTLY matches the original in alignment. This must occur, as you are not only replacing the 360° view when in "walking" mode, you re also replacing the photographic data mapped onto the point cloud mesh for the Dollhouse view. The tolerances are extremely tight. I use a high-quality bubble level when shooting both the original and replacements, I'm very precise about the location and height of the tripod (ie, within an inch), the compass direction when shooting, and even with this I have to make Photoshop corrections using Filter/Other/Offset. I have always shot both original and replacement with the GeoCV camera. You are braver than me to try a different camera, but in principle it should be possible. I look forward to hearing the results.