We Get Around Founder, CEO and Chief Photographer Dan Smigrod demos its We Get Around VR WalkAround™ Tour - powered by Matterport VR Showcase™ Beta - to dozens of Atlanta residences in June 2015.
Photo: Steve Case receives a Matterport Virtual Reality (VR) demo by We Get Around Chief Photographer Dan Smigrod at its Atlanta Tech Village office Thursday, (7 May 2015). Village Founder David Cummings, appears in the back (center). Image courtesy of Andy Stoll
Before you buy a Matterport VR Showcase Beta, these two We Get Around blog posts are "required reading." Then, buy using the We Get Around Matterport VR Showcase Beta gear and accessories Amazon shopping list below so you get EXACTLY the right Note 4 and Gear VR for the Beta version.
- Matterport Photographers: How to Optimize Your 3D Tours for Gear VR
- Matterport Photographers: Gear VR + Note 4 – 16 Step Setup Check List
Related Matterport VR reading ...
- The Arrival of Virtual Reality Journalism
- Matterport 3D 'Mesh View' Examples to Virtual Reality by Vicator
- Holodeck: Matterport 3D + Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus
- TechRadar – (4 March 2015) Expect Gear VR 2 to Launch at the End of the Year
Plus, join the discussion in this Matterport User Group Forum thread: Matterport VR Showcase Beta with Gear VR.
If you have a choice of which Samsung smartphone to buy, Matterport VR team recommends the S6 over the Note 4. "It's a better phone," as of 19 August 2015. Carefully to buy the Gear VR headset for the correct phone. They look the same, but the form factor is different for each phone. Our shopping list has the correct devices.
We Get Around Chief Photographer Dan Smigrod added the next five items on Sunday, 15 November 2015 ... then the original list follows.
The following VR gear and accessories was in the original We Get Around Blog Post ...
While the following are not compatible with Matterport VR Showcase Beta, you may still want to buy for "show and tell" ...