Scan the yard in two minutes
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This walk was recorded on a pergola dealer's iPad. It took about two minutes, by the timer on the Stop button. The staff app runs on an iPhone or iPad. While you walk, it saves photos, its own position, GPS and compass, and an AR map of the site; on a device with LiDAR it saves depth as well.
The app guides the walk with short prompts. It asks you to stand 4–5 m from the house and press Start, then to look up at the eaves, step back so the wall fills the frame, tilt down to the ground and turn to the surfaces it highlights. Turn on the spot and it says Move, don't pan: a new view needs a step sideways. Surfaces are painted as they are covered, amber for one angle, lime for two and green for three or more, and the Your scan card shows the whole site with the same legend. A ring around the crosshair watches for motion blur; on this walk it stayed green.
The scene is built in the cloud or on the device itself, chosen on the first card. This one was built on the iPad: matching the photos, estimating depth, building the surface, training the scene, packing it and colouring the surface took about three and a half minutes after Stop in this recording. Then the scene opens in the studio, ready to design on.
