- Before going out to scan, plan ahead by ensuring your device’s battery is charged and the weather conditions are safe.
- Great splats take 1-3 minutes to scan. Any longer than that and the overall quality will diminish.
- Walk at a slow, natural pace. Move your body and phone to capture objects and surfaces at various angles: high and low, near and far, face-on and at angles.
- Adjust how you scan based on what you are scanning:
- If it’s an object like a statue that you can walk all the way around, walk in a spiral from near to far, or draw flower petal patterns by making loops as you walk closer and further.
- For a street scene or scanning something large, focus on any one object, or simply imagine that you’re scanning an invisible object in the middle. This will help you capture the entire scene. Do not pivot around a point like you’re taking a panoramic photo.
- If you will be uploading your splat to the map, avoid capturing people. Use the opportunity of someone passing by to lift your camera up, getting a higher angle as you avoid their face.
- The scene should be well lit. If you have to scan in a darker setting, it’s even more important to move slowly and smoothly.
- Because splats capture view-dependent effects, such as reflections, you’ll get the best results by capturing from multiple angles.
- As you scan, the visualization will start by looking blurry and gradually sharpen to indicate where you have captured useful angles. Toward the end of your scan, focus on the areas that are still blurry.
- You can choose to process your splat immediately to see if your scan turned out well, or you can process later if you want to do another scan or use another app, because Scaniverse must be open while processing.
- Have fun and try new things! Gaussian splatting on the phone is a new technology and we’re all learning how to do it best.