On any given day, as many as 300+ people worldwide check-out the Matterport User Group Forum to browse 1,500+ thread posts on among 150+ topics such as:
- Matterport Resources (official and unofficial)
- Matterport + Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus
- Matterport Press – and Blog – Coverage
- Matterport Related Companies, Products and Services
- Matterport 'Wish Lists' such features requests for 3D Workshop
- Matterport Threads about Tips, Tricks, Best Practices
- Related news and tech such as Oculus, MV4D, Samsung Gear VR
- Matterport Outdoor Capture (not supported by Matterport)
- Responsive design: Matterport + WordPress
More than 100 Matterport Pro 3D Camera photographers from five continents have registered as members of the free public Forum that was founded in August 2014 by We Get Around Chief Photographer Dan Smigrod.
"Thank you for joining MUG on this journey into the future – today," writes Dan in his inaugural post on the Forum. "Our vision is a community of Matterport users getting help and helping others with Matterport capture, creation and sharing,"
While the majority of members are Matterport photographers, real estate agents and potential camera buyers; Forum members also include: film/TV location scouts; CAD designers; and AR/VR enthusiasts.
Most members are from the United States (only country that Matterport presently sells cameras). International members have figured out how to get cameras in: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Italy, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Forum readers have collectively spent more than 1,000+ hours on the Forum, including more than 41,500+ page views and spend an average of 5:43 minutes on the site during each visit.
The forum is powered by NinjaPost and sponsored by the We Get Around Network of Matterport Pro 3D Camera Photographers.
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- Ninja Post Blog (20 February 2015) Client Profile: The Matterport User Group Forum
- We Get Around Blog (23 February 2015) Matterport User Group Forum ♥ Ninja Post Cloud-Hosted Forum Service