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Capturing Reality introduces PPI (Pay Per Input) pricing

Sep 10, 2019 by CGPress Staff
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Capturing Reality has introduced a new licensing model for its photogrammetry application. Named PPI (a slightly unfortunate initialism in the UK ) which stands for Pay Per Input licensing, the new model allows anyone to use all of Capturing Reality’s features free of charge. Once you are happy with the output you can then pay to export it. The cost, however, is calculated upon the types and sizes of input, not the output. This means that once the inputs are licensed they can be reused again and again with different reality capture settings and features without additional charge. Read more on the Capturing Reality website.  

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Badbullet
5 years ago

Interesting. 10,000 PPI for $27.48. I hope I’m calculating the conversion correctly, as this seems like a decent deal for my uses. A test project I did would have cost me 1,000 PPI, or $5.50 (ya gotta buy a minimum of 2,000 PPI or $11). I will have to try it once. Better than spending $90 for 3 months and only using it a couple times.

Edit: My math was off two different ways, lol. 2,000PPI is $21.91. 10,000 PPI is $110. So my project would have cost me $11. Why they would advertise the price as “Cost of 1 Mpx= 0.25 of euro cent ( € 0.0025)”, instead of per PPI is a bit weird. They could have just said 1 PPI = 0.01 euro cent.

juang3d
Reply to  Badbullet
5 years ago

A normal project for us requires different scenes and each scene can have around 2500 pictures, 21Mpx each… with this model is far more expensive than paying 90$ / 3 months.

I imagine it all depends on the needs of each one.

Badbullet
Reply to  juang3d
5 years ago

I used it once to scan a room. Roughly 250 pictures were needed as there wasn’t much detail and I didn’t need to see behind the furniture. Everything else I do is objects photographed on a self built automatic picture taking turntable, and I rarely do that, lol. For me, I prefer how RealityCapture works, and the speed. But since I rarely need to do photogrammetry, this is a decent deal. But for you and others that do it more often, I can see how it isn’t. And with the $90 3/month promo possibly ending soon…yikes.

Even on their page there’s a chart for one to select which one to pick; “How often do I use it”, rarely leads to the PPI model :).

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