Super 3D capture app.
After the exploring all the 3D capture apps I could, a few years back when the iPhone 13pro came out, I decided that Metascan produced the best results. Since then I’ve happily purchased the app for a few years now, with only one snag being that if the subject is quite large, (such as a fishing trawler, or railway station) the photogrammetry output is sometimes reduced in scale. Presumably this is a limitation which many people will not run into and I have always found the LiDAR based outputs to be to scale and with only a few cm error when using the measurement tool. Also I found opening the output scans in Blender was a good idea for cleaning up “blobs” which sometimes occur when capturing with LiDAR. Recently Polycam have upped their game and I may well start using their app as well, mainly for the floor plan outputs which Metascan are yet to make part of their offering. If you are looking for an excellent app to start your 3D capture journey, you can’t go wrong with Metascan and hopefully the app developers will soon bring out some new features, such floor plans, to bring it up to par with its competitors, making it a very powerful tool. Thank you Metascan, I have enjoyed this app a lot!
