Room360 turns phone video into interactive 3D — and claims to beat LiDAR
room360, a new ai-powered platform, converts standard smartphone videos into navigable 3d environments using cloud-based inference, potentially replacing expensive lidar hardware for real estate and vr applications.
room360 introduced a spatial reconstruction platform that automates the creation of immersive 3d environments from standard 2d smartphone videos. the workflow involves decomposing video into frames, converting individual images into 3d geometry, and using spatial complementarity analysis and rotation estimation to fuse models into a unified coordinate system. by offloading inference to the cloud, the platform bypasses the need for expensive hardware like lidar scanners or depth cameras, targeting sectors such as real estate, virtual tours, and e-commerce. this signals a shift towards accessible, software-defined spatial computing that could disrupt traditional 3d capture markets.