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By Tom Sparks | www.WeGetAroundNetwork.com | www.WGAN-TV.comBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

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December 12, 2019 56-WGAN-TV | Matterport Meets Insurance Underwriting and Risk Management
How to pursue and how to pitch the benefits of Matterport scanning
Hi All,

For Matterport Service Providers, documenting property within businesses and inside of homes of high net-worth individuals for insurance underwriting and risk engineering may be the next big opportunity.

Matterport 3D models will make a huge difference in how insurance underwriting and risk management are done today. By providing underwriters with the ability to pull up, on demand, a Matterport 3D model of a given location, underwriters will be able to do their jobs faster and more effectively.

Matterport Meets Insurance Underwriting and Risk Management are the topics for WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | -5 GMT) on Wednesday, 11 December 2019.

My guests will be Matterport Director of Accounts Brandon A. Donatelli - and Matterport Account Managjer Rodrigo Abreu – whom will walk us through this topic.

For context for this WGAN-TV show, imagine that you are an insurance company. A business owner seeks millions of dollars in property insurance within a very large space.

Before Matterport, insurance companies had few options when assessing the risk: essentially sending someone out to inspect and document.

With a Matterport “Digital Twin,” it becomes possible for a Risk Engineer to inspect a property remotely and without compromising quality and much more cost-effectively (time and traveling savings).

A Matterport 3D model, which can be quickly and easily captured, gives insurance companies the upside of virtual on-site inspections with none of the drawbacks.

Among the questions that I will ask Brandon are:

✓ what is insurance underwriting and how does this work today?
✓ what is risk management and how does this work today?
✓ what are the problems - the pain points - for insurance underwriting and and risk management?
✓ Can you give us an example of each and highlight the pain points?
✓ How does a Matterport 3D model solve these problems?
✓ How does a critical mass of Matterport Pros help?
✓ How does a Matterport Service Provider get this kind of business?

What questions do you have for our guest?

Matterport will disrupt – in a good way – how properties are inspected and analyzed. Watch this show to help you figure-out opportunities for your Matterport Service Provider business.

Best,

Dan
1 hr 25 min
December 06, 2019 55-WGAN-TV | Captate 3D Tour is like Matterport, but for Un-Built Properties
Two ways Matterport Service Providers can make money with CAPTATE 3D Tours

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WGAN-TV: Captate 3D Tour is like Matterport, but for Un-Built Properties

Hi All,

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My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) Thursday, 5 December 2019 is Captate Founder Conor Brady. Conor will demo and discuss Captate Solutions for Un-Built Properties.

In addition to the Captate 3D Tour, Captate offers complementary CGI services (Animation, 3D Rendered images).

Captate Pricing

Save This Date to My Calendar

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The next time that you meet with the Chief Marketing Officer of a residential Property Management Company, imagine this conversation:

Your Prospect: Thank you for showing me Matterport. I  it. But, our next residential Community for young adults will not be built for 18 months. Can you circle back to me then to schedule Matterport?

You: Yes. Of course. That said, we offer a solution like Matterport for un-built multi-family Developments. We can help you speed-up pre-sales and pre-leasing to millennials and international buyers by creating a 3D Tour now. Like Matterport, the 3D Tour is Cloud-based and it works on smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers using Web-browsers like Chrome, Safari and Firefox for a seamless experience. Our solution for Un-built Residential Communities is called Captate 3D Tours.

Here are two Captate 3D Tour examples:

✓  Residential Pre-Sales/Pre-Leasing
✓  Office/Commercial Pre-Leasing

Captate 3D Tour Features

✓  Three ways to experience the Captate 3D Tour: walking, exterior and panorama
✓  Actual view outside the windows (via your drone footage)
✓  2D Schematic Floor Plans
✓  Hotspots that link to video or a webpage (by 31 August 2019)
✓  easy social sharing via Facebook, Twitter and Email
✓  property description
✓  lead generation link
✓  white-label
✓  share via link and embed on your website

You: To get started creating the Captate 3D Tour for you, all we need are your:

✓  all available Architect's plans (2D, .RVT, .DWG)
✓  interior space planner's renderings (some reference images or links as to how the interior will look)

Your Prospect: Sounds GREAT! Sounds like it might cost a million dollars! How much?

You: Here's the Captate pricing.

Your Prospect: That's all?! WOW! Yes! Let's do it! I will ask our architect and space planner to place the Architect's files and rendering files in a Dropbox and send you a link.

You: Great! Thank you for your business. We look forward to helping you Succeed Faster.

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Two Ways for Matterport Service Providers to Make Money With Captate

1. White Label: Make the spread between what you charge your client and what you pay Captate
2. Affiliate Referral Program: Introduce Captate to your client and receive a commission on the project

To learn more about Captate, please Private Message @Conor_Brady or Contact Captate.

Best,

Dan

P.S. Captate is a service of my friend and colleague of many years, @ConorBrady ... Here's what QB Studio Project Co-Founder and Director Alex Brennan has to say about working with Conor and the Captate team about this Captate 3D tour:

“We worked with Captate to do an online tour of a commercial development in New Zealand. It was a very positive experience working with them – great communication, responsive and professional. Project was delivered on time and we exceeded our pre-leasing targets. Recommend.”

Special Offer for We Get Around Network Forum Members

✓ Ask @Conor_Brady at Captate for the Captate Special Offer for WGAN Forum Members, or complete this form
✓ Captate Contact Us form
56 min
November 22, 2019 52-WGAN-TV | A Matterport Customer Journey with Jeff Nitschke with CaptureNW | MSP
The one-year journey to be a Thriving Matterport Service Provider in in Idaho/Washington State
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Hi All,

If you are thinking about getting started with Matterport – or still early in your Matterport Service Provider business journey, there is a ton of great insight in this (above) WGAN-TV show with Jeff Nitschke with CaptureNW serving North Idaho and Eastern Washington State.

Topics Include:

✓ A 'Snapshot' of CaptureNW today
✓ Services Offered
✓ Pricing
✓ Unique Pricing Strategy
✓ Matterport Pro2 3D Camera versus RICOH Theta Z1
✓ How long to shoot a Matterport 3D Tour versus a Zillow 3D Home tour
✓ Gear
✓ How to get inside a brokerage
✓ Syndication
✓ Matterport 3D Showcase app
✓ Pitching Real Estate Agents
✓ Camera 'ready' real estate listings
✓ Shooting a $20 million listing
✓ Benefits of Matterport 3D Tour to homebuilders
✓ Power of Blue Booties
✓ Matterport 3D Tour shot with iPhone (beta)

@lilnitsch ... much thanks for being my guest - and sharing your Matterport journey - on WGAN-TV Live at 5 yesterday (Thursday, 21 November 2019). And, thank you for being a WGAN Forum Member.

Best,

Dan
1 hr 2 min
November 21, 2019 51-WGAN-TV | Matterport Customer Journey: Ross R. Zanzucchi with 3D RoomScapes | MSP
The two-year journey to a thriving Matterport Service Provider Business
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Hi All,

If you are a professional photographer thinking about getting started with Matterport, you might find it helpful to hear the journey of a successful Matterport Service Provider.

My guest on WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) this Wednesday (20 November 2019) is Grays Lake, IL based Matterport Service Prover 3D RoomScapes Founder Ross R. Zanzucchi (@rzphotoman).

✓ WGAN-TV Live at 5: Matterport Customer Journey: Ross R. Zanzucchi with 3D RoomScapes

I will ask Ross about his Matterport Service Provider business today and his nearly two-year journey to get there.

Dan
1 hr 14 min
November 14, 2019 50-WGAN-TV | Virtual Tour Pro Creator Ben Claremont on Top 10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Tour Business | Training | Getting Started
Plus, Ben Claremont on: Which 360º Camera you Should Buy for Virtual Tours
Hi All,

On WGAN-TV Live at 5 (above) earlier today (Wednesday, 13 November 2019), 360º Subject Matter Expert, Mentor and Virtual Tour Pro Course Creator Ben Claremont discusses:

✓ Top 10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Tour Business
✓ Which 360º Camera you Should Buy for Virtual Tours
✓ Virtual Tour Pro course for learning how to plan, shoot, edit, host and the business of Virtual Tours

Special WGAN Offers

1. Free 3-months WGAN-TV Training Academy Membership when you Enroll in Virtual Tour Pro Course by Ben Claremont with this WGAN Affiliate Link for Virtual Tour Pro course by Ben Claremont.

2. Save 15 percent on Virtual Tour Pro with the WGAN Coupon Code (You automatically receive this WGAN coupon code when you join the free WGAN Forum. Already a Member? Private Message me for the WGAN Coupon code for Virtual Tour Pro.

3. Free Virtual Tour Pro Course by Ben Claremont when you:

✓ pre-pay for 24 months of WGAN Standard Membership

Best,

Dan

Ben Claremont Links

YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Bio | Courses | Virtual Tour Pro Course | Virtual Tour Pro Course Curriculum
1 hr 32 min
November 08, 2019 49-WGAN-TV | Matterport Meets and and Flood Insurance Claims: Remediation and Restoration
Matterport Director, Business Development Tomer Poran
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This is a "must watch" WGAN-TV show if you are in the insurance-Remediation-Restoration Space or are a Matterport Service Provider trying to understand the space and opportunities for Matterport Pros.
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Hi All,

When a house has a flood or fire, Matterport there are many ways Matterport can help with:

✓ document flood and/or fire damage
✓ document remediation
✓ help plan restoration
✓ help with marketing to show before/after

Plus, there are at many opportunities for Matterport Service Providers when there is fire or flood damage.

On WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 pm ET | GMT -4) on Thursday, 7 November 2019, Tomer Poran - Matterport Director, Business Development, Head of Partnerships and New Market Development (and Matterport Insurance Subject Matter Expert) - will be my guest on the show.

To help us understand the the challenges and opportunities for Matterport Service Providers in the Matterport meets Insurance space, I will ask Tomer to:

1. walk us through the mitigation, remediation and restoration companies' residential customer journey
2. show examples of Matterport 3D tours during the phases of the customer journey
3. identify the stakeholders
4. identify the use cases for the Matterport 3D Tour and MatterPak during the customer journey
5. discuss challenges, opportunities and additional gear needed for Matterport Service Providers
6. Jargon: Xactimate, Mitigation, Remediation, Restoration, Smoke Trails, moisture points, psychometric readings
7. take questions from viewers (at the end of the show)

What questions would you like me to ask Tomer during the show?

Best,

Dan

P.S. Add this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show to your calendar (optional: and receive reminders)
1 hr 20 min
September 30, 2019 GSV19 Special Episode-WGAN-TV | UK-based Matterport VP James Morris-Manuel at the 2019 Google Street View Summit on Capture and Publishing to GSV
84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View.
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Hi All,

"We found, in a survey that we ran in 2018, that 84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View. We also found in that survey that 71% of photographers that use the Google Street View function with Matterport have found it the fastest way to upload to Google Street View," said UK-based Matterport VP James Morris-Manuel at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in an interview with WGAN-TV.

If you are not using Matterport to publish to Google Street View, why not?

[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]

Best,

Dan

Transcript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)

Hi, I'm James Morris-Manuel, I'm the VP for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Matterport and we're at the 2019 Google Street View Summit here in London. It's been a very exciting two days. We've been talking about lots of different contents and how things can be uploaded and provided to Google Street View.

Just to talk you through where Matterport's at, this is our workhorse camera, this is the Pro2 Camera that Matterport has designed and invented. We have changed the way our business ingests content in the last couple of quarters so essentially we now can accept content from the Ricoh Theta V and the Ricoh Theta Z1 as well as the Insta360 One X.

You can capture content with these devices, upload it to the Matterport platform. Our AI then makes that become 3D so you get the full Matterport 3D experience that you're used to with the Pro2 camera. From there, you can then upload to Google Street View.

We found, in a survey that we ran in 2018, that 84% of photographers that have a Matterport camera upload to Google Street View. We also found in that survey that 71% of photographers that use the Google Street View function with Matterport have found it the fastest way to upload to Google Street View.

It's been very useful for travel and hospitality especially, where clients have captured the lobby and then uploaded the lobby of a hotel to Google Street View. Also, with leisure and some of commercial real estate as well. Thank you very much.
2 min
September 30, 2019 GSV19 Special Episode-WGAN-TV | Create 2D Video From 360 Video Using the Insta360 One X
Insta360 Global Marketing Project Manager Beichen Nie at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in London.
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Hi All,

"You can shoot first and then reframe with this camera as well," says Insta360 Global Marketing Project Manager Beichen Nie at the 2019 Google Street View Summit in a WGAN-TV interview.

"You can basically make sure you're always in the post by reframing the VR footage. That way, you don't have to worry about not being in the frame or missing any shots. You can always get yourself in the frame with this camera."

How might you use this technique to make money in shooting residential real estate?

WGAN Forum discussions tagged: Insta360 One X

[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]

Best,

Dan

Transcript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)

Hello everyone. I'm Beichen from Insta360.

This is our Hero [Insta360] One X product. The One X is a 360 action camera, so it can shoot 5.7K videos at 30 FPS.

You can also do slow-mo videos at 50 FPS and 100 FPS. With this camera, you can get amazing FlowState Stabilization, where you can put cameras onto different occasions like extreme sports, skiing, mountain biking, all the skating, all the different action sports, and you still get the super smooth footage straight from the camera; gimbal-level.

You don't need to buy expensive VR gimbal to get this footage. You can shoot first and then reframe with this camera as well.

You can basically make sure you're always in the post by reframing the VR footage.

That way, you don't have to worry about not being in the frame or missing any shots. You can always get yourself in the frame with this camera.
1 min
September 30, 2019 GSV19 Special Episode-WGAN-TV | Ricoh Theta V/Z1 Pair with Matterport and/or Publishing to GSV
Ricoh Head of Global Marketing Thijs Ekelschot at the Street View Summit in London.
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Hi All,

"[Ricoh makes] 360 content creation, very simple. We integrate now with Matterport or we're working closely with Matterport content creators, but with Matterport itself as well. Obviously to simplify the workflow for creativity, virtual tours for creating content," said Ricoh Head of Global Marketing Thijs Ekelschot in a WGAN-TV interview at the 2019 Google Street View Summit.

"Big difference between these two cameras is when we introduced Theta V where the very good high performing camera, but these are only at 14 million pixels for stitch files. Whereas with Theta Z1 we increased this to 23 million pixels, one inch sensor, shooting in raw, which is the feature that many professionals were asking about."

How have you liked shooting with the Ricoh Theta Z1?

WGAN Forum discussions tagged:

✓ Ricoh Theta V
✓ Ricoh Theta Z1

[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]

Best,

Dan

Transcript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)

Hi, my name Thijs Ekelschot, so I work for Ricoh and as you might know, Ricoh is a manufacturer of this one, the Ricoh Theta and this one, Ricoh Theta V, Ricoh Theta Z1 that we introduced earlier this year.

Obviously we're really pleased with these cameras. We make 360 content creation, very simple. We integrate now with Matterport or we're working closely with Matterport content creators, but with Matterport itself as well. Obviously to simplify the workflow for creativity, virtual tours for creating content.

Why are we here? Why are we at a Google Street View conference? Obviously it's our ambition to make sure that there's as many people out there as possible to create good 360 content.

Big difference between these two cameras is when we introduced Theta V where the very good high performing camera, but these are only at 14 million pixels for stitch files. Whereas with Theta Z1 we increased this to 23 million pixels, one inch sensor, shooting in raw, which is the feature that many professionals were asking about.

So we started to introduce lots of more features for the professionals, and hopefully this is a camera to your liking. So I would encourage everybody to start using it, discover it, work with it in Matterport, Google Street View, any platform, because it's just a fantastic camera.

Thank you very much.
2 min
September 30, 2019 GSV19 Special Episode-WGAN-TV | LCP360 CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit on using Trailblazer paired with a GoPro Fusion to Publish to GSV
LCP360 (Panoskin) CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in London
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Hi All,

Got a GoPro Fusion and wondering how to publish to publish to Google Street View?

".. any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion - whether it's by car or hiking - you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View," said LCP360 CTO Tom Chomiak at the 2019 Street View Summit in a WGAN-TV interview.

"So you can create the Google -blue line- Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method."

WGAN Forum discussions tagged:

✓ TrailBlazer
✓ GoPro Fusion
✓ GoPro Fusion 2 (expected to be announced 1 October 2019)
✓ Panoskin Pro

[Note: All 2019 Google Street View news coverage will be tagged: GSV19 | More news coming through Friday, 4 October 2019]

Best,

Dan

Transcript of WGAN-TV Interview (Above)

Hi, so my name's Tom Chomiak.

I'm with Panoskin, we're the developers of TrailBlazer.

TrailBlazer is a desktop application that's available for both Windows and Mac OS.

It's free for everyone to use. Once you download it, you could use it with the GoPro Fusion.

And, any footage that you record with the GoPro Fusion whether it's by car or hiking, you can take that footage, drop it into TrailBlazer and it'll update it to [Google] Street View.

So you can create the Google "blue line" Street View just like you would with the Street View car, all with just a simple, simple capture and publish method.

So please check us out, it's taketrail.com.

Once again you can download it for both [...] Mac OS and Windows.
1 min

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