This is a 3D LiDAR 360 Camera featuring a Micro 4/3 image sensor with 134MP.
It can capture stunning 16K 360 photo and 3D Dollhouse like this in less than a minute.
Then, it can generate a detailed 2D floor plan with less than 20 millimeters measuring
error.
It can even use AI to Renovate empty space in a matter of seconds, with no extra cost
- compared to the expensive Matterport.
Today, we are going to dive deep into an All-in-one virtual tour platform.
This is not a clickbait title.
What I am going to show you will give you a competitive edge in the professional virtual
tour industry that you have not seen anywhere else.
If you are unsatisfied with the limited image quality and editing ability of the Matterport
Pro 3, or you are so sick of stitching your own photos shot on a DSLR rig with PTGui and
don't want to spend months to build a virtual tour in 3DVista without even 3D dollhouse,
this is the video for you.
This video is for Virtual Tour professionals who want to make money, if you are serious
about giving the best products to your clients, let's grab a cup of coffee or tea, and join
me in this in-depth review.
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We are discussing a new player in the Virtual Tour industry - the Realsee.
But before I tell you realsee, you need to know the benefit of Matterport.
The reason why you want to upgrade to Matterport from all the other Virtual Tour Platforms,
besides its "build it for you features," it is the 3D dollhouse, the live measurement,
and the floor plan.
Well, Realsee can do all that.
I actually kinda trick you there.
What I just showed you is not Matterport, it is all created in Realsee.
The setup is super easy, and everything can be done on your phone - no computer, stitching,
photo editing, or 3D tour building is necessary.
You can use your phone as a camera, or 360 cameras like Insta360 or Ricoh Theta.
But the easiest workflow and the best result is to use the official camera - the Galois
M2
Galois is a 3D LiDAR Camera, and the only other 3D LiDAR Camera in the market is the
famous Matterport Pro 3.
Let's make a spec comparison: Galois won a reddot design award in 2021,
before Matterport Pro 3 launched their similar LiDAR design.
The dollhouse created by Galois M2, is as good and as detailed as Matterport.
And it can be used outdoors and scan large spaces fast.
Just to point out, you can NOT scan outdoors with Matterport Pro 2.
And if you use Polycam, well it might take a day for a single scan.
This is a matter of seconds.
In raw image resolution, Both capture 16K 360 pano in 134MP.
But, there is a huge difference in sensor size.
Matterport Pro 3 is only a 1-inch sensor - just like the Insta360 One RS 1-inch 360.
Galois is the first 3D LiDAR Camera to employ a Micro 4/3 sensor.
So the image quality is better - reaching professional DSLR quality.
Matterport camera only allows you to download 4K (4,096 x 2,048) less than 4MB highly compressed
JPG.
Basically useless if you want to host your 360 photo somewhere else, like your Facebook
page for promotional purposes.
Realsee allows you to download full 16K (16000 x 8000) 360 pano and don't care how you use
that 360 photo.
So if you decide to use KRPano or 3DVista b/c you want to create your own tour instead
of asking AI to do it for you, you can.
Galois will just be your highend 360 camera.
Matterport is all about control, a very monopoly mind-set of approaching the Virtual Tour industry.
Realsee does not care what you do with your photo.
You own the photo you capture, and you don't have to use their platform to create 3D tour.
Altho, Realsee virtual tour platform is amazing.
More on that later.
Matterport Pro 3 still has THREE advantages tho.
Its vertical field of view is 295 degrees.
Meaning the camera will capture the top part of the sphere - the ceiling.
Galois M2 only captures 150 degrees - significantly smaller than 360 camera.
Here is the capture result.
You see, the ceiling and the tripod is missing.
Realsee Virtual Tour platform actually does not allow you to fully look up or look down
in 360.
Well, I don't agree with that.
What do you think?
Comment below.
The second advantage is HDR bracket number.
Galois only capture 3 exposure bracket while Matterport Pro 3 capture 5 - 2 more stop of
dynamic range.
This help in challenging lighting situation.
But, Galois does has a more natural-looking image rather than an HDR look in Matterprot,
using their big image sensor instead of smart HDR merging.
The third advantage is capture speed.
Pro 3 takes around 20 seconds per capture point while Galois take 25 second for a fast
capture and 60 second for a slow capture.
Slow capture mode is an interesting feature that Pro 3 does not have.
It allows the LiDAR to capture a more dense point cloud, which is great for 3D reconstruction
when you move the point cloud data to Blender or other 3D software.
Think about NeRF, and the latest 3D Gaussian Splatting in the VFX world.
This can be an advantage for Galois instead of a disadvantage.
B/c Matterport does not allow me to get the original 16K 360 photo, it is hard for me
to make a fair side-by-side comparison.
So instead, I use my Insta360 One RS 1-inch 360 camera and my very high-end SONY Alpha
1 8K Mirrorless camera on a Nodal Ninjas robotic head MECHA C2 to benchmark the image quality.
The One RS 1-inch is a 1-inch sensor camera like the Matterport Pro 3.
It is a widely used Virtual Tour photo camera b/c its price and portability.
Both Matterport and Realsee Virtual Tour platforms support the Insta360 camera natively.
So if you don't want to buy the expensive Pro 3 or the Galois, this camera or the Ricoh
Theta Z1 is what I will recommand.
My SONY takes 6 photos to stitch the full pano, it reaches 14K resolution using PTGui
Pro.
This, or the Canon EOS R5, is what the professionals are using for a very high-end virtual tour.
Here is the comparison with their original resolution.
The Galois capture in 16K, bigger than both the SONY and the Insta360.
Why is resolution so important in 360 virtual tour?
Well, because all virtual tour platforms allow you to zoom in for details.
So let's zoom in.
Now you see the 16K advantage.
We can clearly read the Fujinon text on Galois, and not readable on Insta360.
SONY is not as clear as Galois.
But SONY has less digital noise b/c its biger sensor.
Let's take a look at the outside of the house.
Galois is sharp and clear with amazing image quality.
It also has decent dynamic range even only using 3 bracketed HDR.
One amazing advantage of Galois is actual color representation.
It virtually has no Chromatic Abbreviation thanks to its very high-quality fisheye lens.
Galois uses AI and LiDAR data to stitch the 360 photos instead of optical flow in Insta360
or template stitch in PTGui, which means it has faultless results without any artifacts.
Look at the stitch line area, Insta360 is blurry and has optical flow artifacts.
No matter how tight your capturing space or how close objects are to the camera, Galois
can stitch without any errors.
At least I have not seen any.
Here my bathroom is in a really tight space.
Look around, the result is perfect.
So if you are one of those photographers really care about image quality but don't want to
do manual stitching or control points stitching, you will be satisfied with the image quality
of Galois thanks to its Micro 4/3 image sensor and power machine learning data.
Galois is a fully automatic camera with auto white balance and auto AI-powered exposure,
HDR tone mapping, denoising, haze removal, sharpening, and saturation adjustments.
But not like Matterport, you can still add your own signature touch to your final 360
photos.
Right here in the web-base virtual tour platform, you can add your own color grade using global
spatial filter.
You can make your whole theme brighter, warmer or customize everything to create your signature
style.
The biggest advantage of Realsee Galois is the price.
Matterport Pro 3 costs $5995 USD, but just the camera is useless.
You need to pay for a hosting plan, and the Professional Plan costs $660 for the cheapest
annual subscription.
So your starting price for the Pro 3 is $6655.
Well, there is also a hidden cost most reviewers don't tell you.
The Schematic Floor Plans as you see here is NOT included.
It costs $15 to $30 per spaces.
And this is a subscription model.
You need to buy the plan again next year.
Realsee is a very simple pricing structure.
For $5499, you get the Galois camera with professional image quality, a free high-quality
carbon fiber tripod, and 1500 credits - it is about 150 space hosting per year like the
Professional plan in Matterport.
It is not a subscription model.
You pay as you go.
If you did not use all your credit this year, they roll over next year.
If your business scales and you need more credit, you can buy more anytime you want.
Here is the price comparison.
Right now, the $5499 promotional pricing also includes Free Floor Plan Editor, Free 3D Live
call, and Al Virtual Renovation.
They are all cool features that Matterport does not offer.
Let's talk about it.
Floor Plan editor allows you to edit the AI-generated Floor Plan.
You can create very detailed floor plan and even put in furniture drawing on it.
Great for home decoration.
Matterport can do all that, but it costs extra.
From $15 to $30 per floor plan, depending on how soon you want it.
3D Live call is basically like the 3DVista Live-Guided Tours.
It is an essential feature for realtors to live showcase the propriety to the potential
customer, with the hope of closing the deal on the call.
Matterport can not do it without a third-party app, which usually costs extra.
Realsee comes with it as part of the core interface.
And it is free, at least for now.
AI Virtual Renovation is something new that I have not seen anywhere else.
You can virtually decorate on many other Virtual platforms nowadays, but not like Realsee.
It uses the 3D LiDAR data to completely renovate the space base on style you choose.
And no interior designer knowledge is needed.
It even supports NeRF like Luma AI! You can scan furniture with your phone and place them
in virtually in 3D.
It is pretty insane how good the AI is.
You need to try it yourself.
All standard Virtual Tour feature you like in 3DVista is built inside the Realsee console
- you can insert text, image, audio, video, and even e-commerce features into the space.
One thing it is really cool is this screen feature.
It turns a static boring virtual tour into a video virtual tour.
As you see, I place a fake TV here, and it shares in all spaces.
It continues to play when I am moving around in the space.
It really feels like visually, the TV is there in the physical 3D space.
Very cool.
All hotspots react to the depth and the 3D shape of the space.
They all look super real.
How is the capture experience like?
Well.
It is a lot easier than using DSLR or even the 360 camera.
Everything is controlled on my phone.
I don't need to hide.
I can just follow the camera as long as I am not in the way of the camera or the LiDAR.
A 1000 square feet take me about 15 minutes.
I will recommand scanning the 1st floor completely first, including all the rooms and all the
bathrooms.
Then move up to 2rd floor.
Don't forget to scan the stair to go up.
Also, turn on all the lights in the room.
Unlike Matterport Pro 3, Galoris handles household light pretty well without HDR artifacts.
For space that does not have light at all, I like to bring my own COB light - like my
new Ulanzi 40W Bi-color COB light here.
It is super afforable, cost only $80 USD but with over 95CRI.
It is super small and compact, with battery power.
It comes with a mini softbox too.
I like to turn the color temperature to a warmer side to match the indoor lighting in
around 3600 to 4000 Kelvin.
The LiDAR reaches up to 25 meters outdoors.
So you don't need too many points to scan a large backyard like this.
During scanning, your scan data is also uploading onto Realsee Cloud in the background to save
time.
But in general, I suggest connecting to a wifi hotspot after scanning to upload all
your data.
Then depending on how many scan points, it will take AI from an hour up to 12 hours to
process your data.
Most of the time for simple houses, I can show clients rough results the same day.
Here you go, this is the final result without any editing.
Then you can go back to your studio, open realsee console on a web browser, edit the
floor plan and add hotspots.
AI already did most of the work for you; all you need to do is edit and make it better
- like adding your agent information, and phone number, uploading on to Google Maps,
which is also built-in, and sharing the result with MLS platforms like Zillow.
Hit the publish button, your white label Virtual Tour will be live on the Internet - no need
to mess with Amazon hosting or server nightmare.
It is as easy as Matterport powered by AI, or as complicated as you want it to be like
in 3DVista - this is totally up to you as a creator.
So, is Realsee the true Matterport Killer?
What do you think after watching this review?
Comment below.
I will say at least Realsee is a good alternative to Matterport.
Before Realsee, no other virtual tour platform even comes close.
No service is perfect.
When you switch floors back and forth during capture, sometime the AI will get confused
and be off alignment.
With the 3D point cloud, it is actually very easy manually realign.
Just like what you see here.
Besides continue training their AI to improve accuracy on the 3D side of thing, Realsee
also commits to support professional photographers.
For example, 1 feedback I gave to them is to allow us to download, edit the 16K pano
in Photoshop, patch the missing top and bottom with AI Generative Fill, improve the quality
with AI like Topaz Photo or even Stable Diffusion, and then allow us to reupload the 16K photo
but keeping all the original LiDAR 3D data, dollhouse, and 3D measuring.
They say yes and it will be available in September.
Matterport won't even allow you to touch their Pro 3 photos.
To keep this video fair all the
links in this video is NOT affiliated link.
I don't get a den from you if you choose Realsee or not.
They did send me the Galoris for testing and cover some of my cost of producing this video.
But they don't control what I say, and don't get to see this video until it goes live.
I am very excited to see new competition come into the Virtual Tour market that heavily
utilizes the latest AI tech and innovation.
Competition is good for consumers like us and the entire industry.
I am still new to the realsee platform as a 3DVista user.
But I am planning to make more realsee tutorials to help you get started, up your virtual tour
game, and win high-end clients fast.
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