Matterport: Axis, a New Hands-Free Motor Mount for Precision 3D Capture16392
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| Matterport Media Release ---  Matterport Axis | Source: Matterport  Matterport Axis | Source: Matterport  Matterport Axis | Source: Matterport Video: Matterport Axis - Motorized Mount for 3D Scanning | Hands On Overview | Video courtesy of Adorama | Tuesday, 8 February 2022 Matterport Introduces Axis, a New Hands-Free Motor Mount for Precision 3D Capture for Smartphones SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR), the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, today announced Matterport Axis™, a revolutionary motorized mount that works with a smartphone to capture 3D digital twins of any physical space with increased speed, precision, and consistency. This convenient, hands-free solution produces reliable high-fidelity results with just a click of a button. From homes to offices, hotels, rentals, retail locations, even a factory floor, Matterport Axis is the most affordable way to supercharge 3D capture using just the phone in your pocket. With Axis, the company aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the built world by making it effortless for anyone with a smartphone to digitize any kind of space with a new level of precision and ease of use. Starting today, Matterport Axis is available with special pre-launch pricing of just $59, by securing a place on the Axis waitlist at: www.Matterport.com. The official launch date is April 1 when general availability pricing will start at $79. All waitlist sign-ups received by March 31 will qualify for pre-launch pricing, subject to terms and conditions. Matterport has also enlisted its premier e-commerce partners, Adorama [Matterport Axis Motorized Smartphone Mount with 1 Year Starter Plan] and B&H, to bring Matterport Axis to market. The special pre-launch pricing will also be available at both of these websites starting today. Customers across a variety of industries use Matterport to virtually measure, document, manage, and promote their properties online. Now, with Matterport Axis, organizations across the globe can scale up their efforts to affordably capture high-fidelity digital twins at multiple locations simultaneously. Distributed teams get reliable, consistent results from their smartphones, and Axis helps to ensure that every scan from every location achieves the same level of precision. Matterport Axis simplifies deployments across all industries including: 1. Retail and Hospitality. On-site employees can use Matterport Axis and the smartphone in their pocket to reliably capture a digital twin from every location across a chain of properties. This enables merchandising teams and facility managers to virtually inspect, plan, and manage multiple locations online, eliminating routine travel and on-site visits while rapidly increasing productivity. 2. Real Estate. Professionals, property managers, and vacation rental owners can now create digital twins with greater speed and ease with Axis’ affordable, hands-free 3D capture - to publish stunning virtual tours online in less than an hour. 3. Construction and Insurance. Builders and insurance adjusters can readily deploy multiple Axis units to the field to accurately scan and share detailed digital twins from any compatible smartphone, for every stage of the job. Enabling remote inspection, tracking, and management with contractors and building specialists anywhere in the world. “At Matterport, our mission is to make every space more valuable and accessible, and with Matterport Axis, we’re excited to help our customers bring their properties online so that they can manage them anytime, anywhere,” said Japjit Tulsi, Chief Technology Officer of Matterport. “We have democratized 3D capture by making the Matterport Capture app available to billions of Android and iOS users. Combined with Matterport Axis, we’ve made it even simpler for individuals, small businesses, and large multi-property enterprises to quickly and reliably scale the digitization of their properties at an affordable price.” To learn more about Matterport Axis and sign up for the waitlist, visit: www.matterport.com/axis. About Matterport Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR) is leading the digital transformation of the built world. Our groundbreaking spatial data platform turns buildings into data to make nearly every space more valuable and accessible. Millions of buildings in more than 194 countries have been transformed into immersive Matterport digital twins to improve every part of the building lifecycle from planning, construction, and operations to documentation, appraisal and marketing. Learn more at: www.matterport.com ©2022 Matterport, Inc. All rights reserved. Matterport is a registered trademark and the Matterport logo is a trademark of Matterport, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Source: Matterport via Globe Newswire |
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| Not sure how I feel about this. They seem to be going harder and harder towards "cutting out the middle man" and getting end users as their customers. In this case "the middle man" is me, someone who has given them over $10k for hardware and roughly $30k in processing/hosting fees over the years. So... why keep undermining your biggest revenue sources? Makes no sense to me. |
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| I like the look the setup, the pricing for 5 models is remarkable. All that said along with @Expertise where does that leave me. Like others I have been on board with MP for good and bad and have not seen much movement to help the MP services providers or increase the pro value camera services to make us standout. Like Nikon, Canon or Sony you can buy a base model camera that works for a few hundred dollars or for the pros you can buy a camera for several thousand. But with them I have confidence they are developing on all levels. I don't get that same feeling from MP, I still don't feel MP is working that angle and does not have a good reputation for the Pro market. I am reluctant to buy a newer Pro serious camera as it stands today. I still wish MP would have more of a once a year users conference so we could talk with the express our concerns and kinda get an idea where they are headed as a company. I do understand the philosophy of wanting to be the biggest and best. I always feel that it is somewhat of a two way street when it it comes to the pro series service providers. |
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| They seem to think that success will come when they have armies of amateurs scanning everything in sight with their phones or... something. | ||
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| This looks like a copy of GEOCV, the only thing is you have to manually tilt it up and down. Also shooting time is still long. It also looks like they are doing more scanning points to fill in the models what I could see from the Matterport videos. Dollhouse also not very clean looking. What I loved shooting with GEOCV was the image quality was far better than the PRO2. No broken artefacts in any of the models, their algorithm was super sharp. Also when shooting you can do less scans as the GEOCV would fill in a lot more VS a Matterport scan. You could also edit your panos and self host your content that you created. But I can see how this can work for Real Estate agencies, but again agents are lazy to do the shooting. What will the hosting fees be using AXIS are they gonna give special packages for the AXIS crowd , and for the professional shooters will we pay higher ? This is also going to hurt a lot of the MSP's business , so we are now moving closer to the $9.99 per virtual tour any size including hosting. Its only the hosting that Mattreport is making their money on. If they kept their model of charging us a processing fee per model, and cheaper hosting they would have had millions more spaces scanned by now. But this happens when your company is run by Ebay. What about PIVO ? Its also dirt cheap, creates a dollhouse view, you own your scanned data, NO HOSTING FEES , Whitelable option, amazing image quality, fast to capture, and processing in minutes not hours or days. And it is not just for virtual tours but can also use it for video creation and video conferencing. It uses LIDAR , so maybe they will soon also create floor plans and have the OBJ available. Would be nice to see both them them side by side , and also a comparison list showing the pros VS cons. Who is planning to buy one to use as a backup maybe when you are on a shoot and you drop your big doorstop? It can also be useful if you have to shoot more spaces in the same location , and you can get an employee to shoot it, than have to fork out $5000.00 to get another PRO2. |
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| Video: Matterport Axis: Unboxing, Setup and Calibration with Amir Frank | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 8 February 2022 | Part 1 of 2 Video: Matterport Axis SmartPhone Rotator: Scanning and Overview with Amir Frank | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 8 February 2022 | Part 2 of 2 |
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Quote:Originally Posted by @ThinkLab @ThinkLab Thank you for your insight. My impression is that GeoCV rotator was a commercial grade rotator for Pros. And, the Matterport Axis is a low-end, entry level solution for occasional use by non Pros. Once it ships, we'll see if Pros embrace it. I could imagine that the length of time for rotation is a non-starter for Pros. Dan |
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Rotation, capture, & alignment using lidar on an iPhone seems to take about 45 seconds per scan position from what I saw in another Matterport video ~ I would suspect like any other model that these times will increase as the model grows and dependent on storage and memory available on said device Averaging Matterport's "Average home" #'s this same home would take about 47 minutes to capture |
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| Matterport Axis will begin shipping in early April 2022, according to Matterport on its Matterport Investor Call today (Wednesday, 16 February 2021). | ||
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 Page 3 of 30 from the Matterport 4Q21 Earnings Deck that was released 16 February 2022. Hi All, Hmmmmmmm.... "Launched Axis" ... says the Matterport 4Q21 Earnings Deck that was released 16 February 2022. But ... During the Matterport Investor Call Wednesday (16 February 2022), Matterport executives said Matterport Axis will begin shipping in early April 2022. It may be a picky point, but I believe the Matterport deck should have said "Announced Axis" - not "Launched Axis" ... Don't think that it 'matters' ...? If you listen to the armchair investor analysis on YouTube, they talk about Matterport Axis already being in use. Hmmmmm..... Dan |
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| Hi All, ✓ Matterport Axis Smartphone Rotator Now Available for Purchase Dan |
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 Matterport Axis smartphone rotator | Image courtesy of Matterport  Text Me 5 Minutes Before WGAN-TV is Live | WGAN-TV: Matterport Axis Motorized Mount Smartphone Rotator: 1st Impressions | Guests: Gilroy, California-based Dave Avilla, Real Estate Photography and Coldwell Banker Realty Agent | www.CBnorCAL.com | CalDRE # 01075392 and Jeff Nitschke, Owner, CaptureNW covering North Idaho and Eastern Washington State | www.CAPTUREnw.com | Episode #141 | Thursday, 14 April 2022 -- Hi All, Thank you for watching this WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET) today (Thursday 14 April 2022). Best, Dan |
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  Matterport eBlast received Tuesday, 26 April 2022 Hi All, Matterport extended pre-launch pricing through 30 April 2022 (in this Matterport eBlast above). That said, the link was broken (for me). Perhaps the link was broken because I already ordered (and received) a Matterport Axis at the pre-launch pricing). Dan |
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  Matterport eBlast received 29 April 2022 Hi All, Above is a Matterport eBlast that I received reminding me to redeem the pre-sal pricing (that I registered for). Interestingly and apparently, Matterport did not scrub their list for those that previously redeemed the special pricing (see screen grab below: what I got when I clicked in the link in the Matterport eBlast above). Dan  Screen Garb: (I previously redeemed Matterport's special offer for pre-sales of the Matterport Axis. |
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| Video: Matterport Axis: Everything you need to know (Updated 28 April 2022) | Video courtesy of Matterport YouTube Channel | 28 Aril 2022 Related WGAN Forum discussions tagged: Matterport Axis Buy Matterport Axis (Amazon) Transcript (video above) Amir Frank: Welcome Matterporters. This video is all about Matterport Axis. What we're going to be talking about today is this guy right here. Let's go ahead and unbox it. This is what you're going to get. When you open it up, you're going to have a few things inside. You've got the motor mount, the arm clamp, a remote control a 3/8-1/4 inch tripod adapter, and a USB charging cable as well as the quick start guide. Here is your motor mount. In my case my thread adapter is right here in the bottom, let me take this out. There it is. This is what the 3/8-1/4 inch thread adapter looks like and if it's not in the bottom of your motor mount it's going to be in a little ziplock bag, right in your case. Because I'm using the bundled tripod, I actually don't need this thread adapter, however if you are using a different tripod with a 1/4 inch 20 thread, this adapter is going to come in very handy. Now before I go ahead and set this up, let's check out the tripod. This is the tripod bundled with your Matterport Axis if you did go ahead and choose the bundled package with a tripod. Again, you can definitely use your own tripod if you want, but this is the one that is currently bundled with Matterport Axis. No different than most tripods out there, the legs just expand out like this and you have three quick release clamps that allow you to extend the legs. I'll go ahead and unclamp all of those, extend the legs all the way and clamp them shut, I'll do that to all three legs. Right now the three legs are fully extended, but the center post is not extended all the way, which we definitely want to do that. At this height, the tripod is about 37 inches and that is well below what we recommend. I'll go ahead and loosen the center post just by twisting this center posts right here and also this knob it needs to be loose, so It's two things, this knob as well as the center post need to be loosened up, the center post comes up, we can re-tighten it with this knob right here, as well as securing it in place with this center post right there. Right now my tripod space is at about 45 inches which is great. With the motor mount I'm going to go ahead and thread this on right now. I find that it's a lot easier to thread the motor mount on before attaching the clamp and camera. Now, we'll go ahead and take my clamp out. Before attaching this to the motor mount, I'm going to go ahead and attach my phone to the clamp. My phone is an iPhone 12 Pro Max with a case on it. It is pretty wide. I need to go a little bit more. Before I go ahead and clamp this shut on my phone, tightening it into place, I want to make sure that my lens is properly aligned with the center of this horizontal pivot point. If you don't know which lens on your camera is the ultra-wide angle lens or if you don't have an ultra-wide angle lens, it's just a normal lens that's going to be used by capture. But if you do have an ultra-wide angle lens, that's the lens that capture is going to be used. Again, if you're not sure which one of your lenses is the ultra-wide angle lens you can go ahead, turn on capture, start a scan so that you can see what's going on through the lens and just use your finger to cover each one of the lens until you find the one that's covered up. Pro tip, go ahead and clean the lens with a lens cloth after you've done that. In my case, the ultra-wide angle lens is this one right here. I just need to make sure that this lens and the center of this pivot point are aligned. I just need to eyeball it. It doesn't have to be perfect, but as close as possible is definitely recommended. Now I've got the lens aligned with the horizontal pivot point and I can go ahead and place the clamp into this unit here. You'll notice that there is a white arrow on the top of the motor mount and a ruler on the base of your clamp. Depending on your phone and whether you're using a case or not, that will determine what ruler marking is going to line up with the arrow. In order to find out, I'm looking to align the ultra-wide angle lens with the center of the motor mount. On this side, I have a dark gray arrow here, I also have this knob right there, and then basically you're going to try and eyeball just to see that they are pretty close. Right there it looks pretty good. For anybody who wants to get this extremely precise, I do have some tips on how to do that, and I'll get to that at the very end of the video. Now with the phone connected to the arm clamp that is connected to the motor mount that is connected to my tripod, I've got my lens height at 54.5 inches, which is just short of the recommended 55 inches. That is perfectly fine no one will ever notice that half inch difference. This little compact tripod really does do a great job at setting your camera lens at an appropriate height for capturing your digital twin for many different use cases. Now I have properly aligned the ultra-wide angle lens with the horizontal and vertical Axis and I can go ahead and turn it on. Right here in the front are four little LED lights that give me a rough estimate of what the battery level is for Matterport Axis. Now it is simply a matter of turning on my phone and accessing Matterport capture. Press the plus sign down here in the bottom to create a new model. My phone automatically recognized Matterport Axis, so you can see down here in the bottom in the camera button, it says iPhone Plus access. In order to use the remote control, it's just a long press on the Capture button in the middle. Hold that down, and after about a second, you'll see the blue light come on. Now you can see that the camera button, it says iPhone plus Axis plus remote and I know that all the devices are talking to one another. You can also see in the top-left corner that it says Axis at 86 percent battery and the remote is at 33 percent battery. This remote does use a very simple watch battery, it's easy enough to just take the bottom right off and access the battery that way. Now I'm basically ready to scan, that's all there is to it. I'll go ahead and press the "Remote" button and initially it'll say, "Get Started", it's just the first time that I'm using this with this model. I'll just hit, "Get Started". Now because I don't have this tilted down just a little bit as I should, it's giving me this warning at the bottom and all that means is I need to loosen up this pivot point that we talked about before, move this down about 15 degrees. As long as this white dot is pretty much in the middle of that circle, it doesn't have to be perfectly centered, you can go ahead and scan. Press the "Remote" button a second time to begin scanning. As you can see, setting up your iPhone with Matterport Axis is very simple and it's really no different with your Android device. As long as you connect Matterport Axis through the capture app on your Android device, you won't be required to enter a password. However, some Android devices, if you don't do that, if you connect through the Bluetooth settings in your Android device, you will be required to insert a password and that is eight zeros. It's just the number zero eight times in a row. Since you have this remote control, you can definitely go ahead and hide behind the corner when Matterport Axis is rotating or you can go ahead and walk around the screen side of your phone. As with any other capture devices, however, anytime you are capturing whether you're hiding around the corner or walking around the backside of the camera, look out for yourself in reflections. If you can see the camera, the camera can see you. But basically that's really about it. Scanning with Matterport Axis is really no different than scanning with any other device. Three sixty is of course captures the entire spherical image at once. This is more like the Matterport Pro 2 in that it does take several images to complete the full 360 degrees sphere. I went ahead and use Matterport Axis to capture this property. Let's go ahead and check out what that looks like. Amir Frank: You can see in that clip just how easy it is to capture using your smartphone when you are using Matterport Axis. So much more easy and consistent than if you just use your smartphone alone. Let's go ahead and check out that model that I captured. You can see as I move around, the image quality is really quite good. I don't see nearly as many of the stitching artifacts and that's thanks to the consistency of the rotation that Matterport Axis provides. I can also look back at the doll house and see that this looks like a great dollhouse and really a great model altogether. That's really it, that is Matterport Axis. You can see how easy it is to set up and align your phone with the device itself, as well as the benefits that using Matterport Axis provides you. For anybody using smartphone capture, this is a great companion device. It truly allows you to scan a lot faster, a lot more precise, and with a lot less fatigued than you would without using it at all. Not only that, the image quality of your digital twin is going to be really stunning because after all you are using your phone's camera. If you do have any more questions about Matterport Axis checkout our FAQ@support.matterport.com. If you've stuck with me this far, you are interested in calibrating your phone's lens very precisely with Matterport Axis and this is how I went ahead and did that. Normally your phone is going to be in Matterport Axis like this and what I want to do is flip the phone over, but I don't want to rotate it like this, what I want to do is flip it so that the screen is like that. Now what I can actually go ahead and do is open up the camera app. This is the idea. I'm using the wide-angle lens, because that is the lens that's going to be used when I'm in capture. If you don't have a wide-angle lens, that's fine just use the regular lens because you don't have wide-angle lens, that's the lens is going to be used. I want to take a picture of this. I'll go ahead and snap a shot right there, go ahead and take this now into something like Photoshop. I've got my image open in Photoshop and very simply, I'm going to go into the rulers here and grab a guide and it's just going to snap right into the center of that and I can see that perfectly centered with this lens is going to be whatever this marking is below the two. I know that this is exactly where I need to align it, which is great, I can take my phone out now. Very easily, line this up right there and just tighten it down. There you go. I really hope that will help you sleep better at night. |
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