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@DanSmigrod - "You have provided the Holy Grail...". Wow! Dan, that is so kind of you! I'm so thrilled that you are so excited about this! I too am excited about the APIs/SDK. You know, there is a link to the REST API endpoints that you can reach from inside Matterxport! I used it to make my Wordpress Plugin after stumbling upon it while reviewing the source. Perhaps the API already exists, they just haven't announced it or provided us documentation!  Please note, it's not the API/SDK that is providing the direct links to download the assets. You can see all that it provide.@Noel Thanks @Marcel and @ron0987 Thank you . I'm humbled that you think I should add a donate button. It -really- isn't necessary, but I've added one if anyone feels that they would like to buy me a cup of coffee @TrustedPhotoDC - Each cube size is 1024 pixels squared. Am I wrong in saying it's 6 megapixels per scene? But yes, 6MP is a LONG way from 14MP for sure. It's 6 more MP than we as a community had previously |
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| Have a great cup on me. This shows several people that there is more to what Matterport can do or learn from users. Whether they choose to or don't, is the question but just maybe they will see that among the user are good ideas and good feedback that works. Thank you Ron |
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| @ron0987 Thank you |
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| Just added 2nd and 3rd floor image/DXF downloads. I had only been testing on apartment models... realized that these were missing and were found under the 'junk' list |
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Boy, I wish I understood what you guys are talking about!  |
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| @BayAreaAdam Just try it out http://www.metroplex360.com/matterxport/ You can download all of the panoramas from your tour and VERY large floorplan images There are DXF files that can be opened with CAD that are 2D Floorplans too They are kinda rough, but might prove VERY useful for someone making clean line drawings. |
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| I just made a tiny update after examining cloud.zip. The contained cloud.xyz file is just a full list of scan data... not the original data (as a whole) that is uploaded to Matterport's servers. | ||
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| @bayareaadam seriously just click on the original post link and put in the end of the public model you have then click a button. Its that easy..give it a go. | ||
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| @Metroplex360 Thanks for replying. You operate on another level! I didn't even know there WERE panoramas.... | ||
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| @smcclell I was looking for a link in the original post and didn't see one. I then went to Metroplex360's site and couldn't find it there either. He did provide it though a few hours ago. Very impressive! | ||
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| Updated with list of parameters, ability to refresh tour with parameters. Added mention of the Developer Mode (Konami). Added information on showing # of views using javascript in a new window. Phew. Need to get more sleep. |
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| Awesome work @metroplex360. Floor plan w/ scale saves me many steps when drawing 2D floor plans for you guys. Thank you <3 | ||
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| Hi All. Sorry to bring bad news, but I've been asked to close the service. The Matterport team is AWESOME and their MAIN concern is with the privacy of their users. They are not concerned with people downloading their own assets -- they are concerned with people downloading OTHER user's assets. As my tool makes this too easy to do, they've asked it to be taken down. I'm working with them and hoping that I can bring it back online. |
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@Metroplex360 What a shame! This was and is a REALLY great service. I am sure you could password protect the site. |
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| We saw that coming! Well I hope that they provide some of the things that you have come up with, especially the photo cubes. | ||
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WGAN Forum Founder & WGAN-TV Podcast Host Atlanta, Georgia |
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| @Metroplex360 Thank you for showing us what's possible, once Matterport goes pubic with its APIs/SDKs. Seems like – with what you have shared with us so far in the Matterport User Group Forum – you could create a tool to enable easy and fast publishing to Google Maps. This would add HUGE value to Matterport Service Providers (and their clients) and Matterport. That's a solution we all could charge more for (or including in our bundle). Matterport should offer you a position as VP, APIs/SDKs and allow you to continue to live/work in Texas.  Best, Dan |
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| I hope they do work with you on developing a tool for all to use. Like Dan said this would be a no Brainerd to bring you on board if nothing else to collaborate on a useful tool again from a user's point of view. Ron |
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| @DanSmigrod / @ron0987 - I have to disclose that what I made was not brilliant programming -- just smart programming. I used tools that anyone has access to in Chrome or Firefox (F12) to scan the content that is loaded with workshop and stumbled upon references within the undocumented API that led me to find all of the assets. MatterXport was written in an evening to automate this process and to break apart the rather large file list, providing an intuitive interface to view the contents. I did go through all javascript files that Showcase and Workshop utilize... I used an online base64 decoder to decode certain things that were contained therein that provided minimal information - but led me to understand some of the metrics of the data being stored. Hours of poking around and reading through code that was in a way reconstructed. For those who don't know how javascript works -- javascript can be viewed by anyone. The web largely works on javascript and the best way to protect your javascript is to obfusticate and compress it. Obfustication basically removes all comments and substitutes meaningful names for variables, functions, etc, with single character placeholders (a,b,c). Compressing removes all spaces, line breaks and indentation. The resulting file is hard to read. There are tools online to 'beautify' the code which makes it easier to read. The level that Matterport's code is obfusticated is not TOO great -- as many variable names were still in place that helped make it somewhat readable. So I just skimmed through everything, found API references, found bits of code that pointed at things like parameters, developer mode, etc. And I published these things as I found them and then incorporated them in MatterXport. Concerning the API -- my.Matterport.com is 100% built off of their API. All of the functionality contained there -- from adding collaborators to even viewing which tours were processed for free, etc, can be done with their API if you've authenticated (logged into my.matterport.com). They built a VERY robust API for themselves. What they haven't done is setup a system for people to create an API Key inside so that they could securely use the API -- and they haven't documented the API for public use. What MatterXport did is demonstrate that they need to tighten up the API and not expose unnecessary information publically. For the record, I've tried to do some silly things - like see if I can't pull up account information or other sensitive things that shouldn't be accesible -- and I can't. It all requires authentication. I hope that Matterport will include me on their shortlist of people when they want BETA testing / feedback on the API. If that happens, I'd be under an NDA and nothing I accomplished would be publically accessible until the API was public. I'd LOVE to rewrite MatterXport to make use of the API as it is intended and reopen it publically after the API is public. However, I would hope that my.matterport.com would gain features that would make my little tool redundant. I don't deserve a job at Matterport for what I did. IMHO, RPeterson's Wordpress Plugin is far more noteworthy IMHO. It's a much more refined piece of work from a programming standpoint that serves the community much better. He'd be a better catch -- and having his plugin as an official part of Matterport would be something I'd imagine them being interested in, especially as he already has a userbase. |
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WGAN Forum Founder & WGAN-TV Podcast Host Atlanta, Georgia |
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| @Metroplex360 Wish you did not have to sign an NDA. Would be nice to see your continued discussion on this topic. Opening the platform - as you started to show what's possible - would help sell cameras, processing, hosting and ancillary revenue for Matterport. Open platforms always trump closed platforms. Best, Dan |
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| If you had a chance to play with this tool by @Metroplex360 before Matterport asked him to disable access, you can appreciate the amazing possibilities that the Matterport platform can deliver. Dan |
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