Spent the weekend scanning my flat before the move and it actually worked

I did the same thing last spring when we sold the flat I'd raised my daughter in. My capture only took about 40 minutes but the trick was doing it at a fixed height, holding the phone out at chest level and walking a slow circle in each room, then a second pass with the phone raised higher. That got the tops of the wardrobes and the curtain rails, wich my first attempt had completely flattened off. Lighting was the make or break for me too. Overcast days worked better than bright sun actually, because the direct sunlight through the windows blew out half the living room and left scorched white patches on the model. A grey afternoon gave even light everywhere and the texture came out much cleaner. The gaps are unavoidable in my experience. Under the bed and behind anything fixed to a wall will always be holes, but I stopped caring once I realized the model is for the feeling of the place, not a perfect archive. Walking past the kitchen doorway again was the part that got me.

I ended up viewing mine in a free viewer on a Quest rather than exporting to a desktop program, and the file sat around two gigabytes after processing. One tip that helped with the hallway, go through it twice, once from each end, otherwise you get that smeared tunnel effect.

Funny how diffrent two captures of the same kind of thing can turn out. I did mine with continuous video instead of stills, just walked each room once filming slowly with my old iPhone 12 in Scaniverse, and the whole thing took maybe twenty minutes. The app pulls frames from the video on its own, so I never stood around shooting individual photos. Quality was a bit softer than what you got, edges of doorframes came out slightly wobbly, but for a keepsake it was plenty.

The other thing I did differently was scan twice. Once with everything still in place, then again the morning after the movers took the boxes out, when the rooms were bare. The empty version is actually the one that hits me hardest, because that is the flat itself, the walls and the wierd dent in the bedroom plaster and the paint patch where a mirror hung for a decade. I also kept the ceiling in the capture, which people sometimes skip. Lying in bed at my new place and looking up at the old ceiling texture thru the headset did more for me than any wall did. Small tip from my run, keep your feet out of frame by pointing slightly upward as you turn, otherwise you end up with a trail of blurry shoes frozen mid-step all over the floor.

Agree with the video method being way less tiring. I did mine walking each room twice with the phone camera running and barely noticed the time pass, whereas my brother did his with stills and was at it all afternoon. One thing that tripped me up though was the big mirror on the wardrobe door, the software tried to make sense of the reflection and left a weird duplicated chunk of the room hanging in the model. I ended up doing that wall from an angle so the mirror was barely in frame and it came out clean. Also worth deciding wheather to scan before or after you pack, mine had boxes everywhere and it looks like moving day got frozen in time, which I actually kind of love now.

First post here so hope this fits the thread. I'm not doing my own place, I'm thinking of capturing my nan's bungalow before the family sells it next year, and I'm worried the clutter will ruin it. Her rooms are full of photo frames, ornaments, that kind of thing, and I don't know if dense little objects just confuse the software or if they actually come out fine. I can't really tidy her place up for her, so I'd rather know now whether to expect a mess. Also wondering how long it takes to get comfortable walking around in one of these models, since I've never tried VR at all.