FARO Sphere XG

Avantages

The user experience, sheet setup, importing functionality and tour navigation are great. Both our internal teams building tours and external users of the finished product find the tour easy to operate and are driving value from the deliverable.
Customer support has been excellent - The team at Holobuilder has been a pleasure to work with!

Inconvénients

Further automation is generating tours quickly, especial tours with large floor plates (many photos) and multiple levels.
The 'Time Travel' feature is not always a good solution, as placing the camera in the exact same spot is not always possible.

Avantages

Easiest 360 capture program to use that we have encountered. Easy to teach the product to clients and to our own employees, great customer service and feature adding team, robust set of features, works online, easy to share product.

Inconvénients

Some of the features are still getting the bugs worked out of them. The downloadable version of it has many glitches when using the add in features like display text, display warning, or add a pdf or png. The online tool is currently the only option for building your VR walkthroughs, which presents a security risk for many of our clients and there is no option yet for an offline creation tool.

Avantages

I have been using this software for a year and it's awesome. It has alot of features to use in the office and on site. It is also easy to share with other users. Customer service is quick and helpful.

Inconvénients

The pricing could be a little better. This software is still young and has very few bugs.

Avantages

- The best customer service I've ever received. The customer service team is friendly, quick/responsive and helpful.
- Easy to use during meetings to present to our stakeholders.
- Program is user friendly and easy to teach to other teammates
- Customize-able - time travel feature and ability to import pdfs, photos, contact info, etc. to a 360 photo enhances our ability to track our project's progress

Would highly recommend.

Inconvénients

There are a few bugs when using HoloBuilder on the iPad.
HoloBuilder is better for smaller projects. On a large project, with multiple buildings that have multiple floors and multiple sheets that apply to one area; we have to import many sheets. Having many sheets can be overwhelming for stakeholders who are trying to see the progress of our project in a quick snapshot.

Avantages

The ease of use for the integration of 360 pictures is by far one of the best out there and by being able to plot the pictures on a drawing it helps you locate specifically where the picture was taken.

Inconvénients

The thing I like least about this program is the amount of work it takes to set up all the sheets and locations of pictures. It is also hard unless you mark exactly where you took the previous 360 to get the exact same result in the next picture.

Avantages

It's simple and intuitive to use. You can quickly capture the job site and then upload to the cloud. The post processing back in the office is miunimual.

Inconvénients

The layout and colors of the editing side of the software is functional, but hard to find all the features quickly.

Avantages

holobuilder has interesting features, is easy to use and can display 360 photos

Inconvénients

holobuilder has interesting features, is easy to use and can display 360 panoramic photos

Avantages

I have seen my bosses now displayed the project where currently working with HoloBuilder creating virtual tours from this application easily and quickly using 360 ° pictures.

Inconvénients

Use this software to view that as easy and practical it is, and actually I didn't have any problems in using it.

Avantages

Holobuilder helps me make sense of images and photogrametry

Inconvénients

It doesn't connect all the way down the stack

Avantages

Surprisingly easy to use, andVery cool results. I especially likeHow easy it was to show a client,Even when he's non-techie.

Inconvénients

Fairly buggy. Support was very helpful to overcome some of the problems, and we got back on track quickly. Other than that I really don't have any complaints.

Avantages

The ease of use is my favorite feature. I mounted our 360 camera on top of a spare hard hat and I am able to document our site in about an hour. Previous software I have used required much more time and did not provide the detail that HB and a 360 camera provide. It is as simple to use as reading a drawing on an iPad or phone and pushing a finger on the screen.

Inconvénients

If I had any complaints about the software, it would be the fact that being in a remote location (basement or parking garage) seems to disconnect the camera from the program. I am not sure what the solution is for this yet, but often times I will need to shut down and reconnect when I am in areas where receiving a signal of any kind is challenging.

Avantages

Ease of use and ability to share with clients who do not use the software. I love the split screen feature for viewer photos taken at different times (progress photos).

Inconvénients

I am a new user of Holobuilder and I haven't found many negatives. Everything that I have wanted to do so far has been no problem. I don't find myself using the objects very much. The movement and placement of them is a little confusing.

Avantages

By using the actual print of the building, it is easy to place locations where the 360 pictures are taken and store them. Also the side by side comparison of previous images is very useful.

Inconvénients

I've had a hard time getting the speed mode to work. It works, but found I can better do it manually faster.