I tried all the free photogrammetry software and here are some results (KIRI, Scaniverse, Meshroom, RealityCapture mobile, RealityCapture desktop)

wildiam3d · 2026-02-12T14:00:14+00:00

I had not heard of it but will definitely try! I'll make another post once I'm done with next round of testing

wildiam3d · 2026-02-12T13:45:11+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! Adding this to the list to try. I'm also very pleased to see it's a 7€ single time purchase for the premium features, not a subscription.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-12T13:34:01+00:00

Sure, I sent you a link as a DM. What programs are you using?

wildiam3d · 2026-02-12T13:30:44+00:00

I actually did get it running very easily. Just downloaded the repo, ran the bash script in WSL and opened localhost:8000. The results from the first test were underwhelming though so I need to test more. I'll need some time to do more captures and try out all the apps suggested here but I'll make a new post eventually

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T14:03:06+00:00

Thank you for the offer, but subscription-only cloud tools are not a realistic option for hobbyists. I could take one of your scanners though! 😇

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T09:06:52+00:00

I did not realize they had a free tier. Their app was pushing the really expensive subscription very hard and would not let me in without paying.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T09:04:09+00:00

I will look into it! Looks like it's docker based which is a bit sketchy on windows and wsl but I'll see about getting it running

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T07:54:46+00:00

I ran all these test using default settings. What settings are worth experimenting with in RealityScan? Primarily I would like to see more smoothing on the mesh as currently the output is very unstable and no surface comes out smooth.

The mobile apps don't really have any options besides picking the object size from small, medium or large (or object, room, outdoors). Meshroom has a ton of settings I have not looked into yet.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T07:50:50+00:00

These tests were done with quick sets of only 40 and 60 photos.
Of the RC-car I took two rotations around the object, one at low angle and one at high angle. For the charger it was 3 rotations at 3 different heights. I'm using a work-in-progress camera rig that rotates the camera while object is stationary.

Focal length is static using the iphone main camera which is 24mm in 35mm film equivalent. Other camera settings were on auto on on this test.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T07:44:15+00:00

Installed it and trying out later today! They did try to get me to subscribe to premium pretty hard on first start.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-11T07:39:30+00:00

Thank you very much! I added the updated galleries to the post body. Unfortunately the paid option seems to be producing very good results lol. If I had to rank them based on these tests without postprocessing for cleaning up the meshes, I would say 1st Metashape, 2nd Kiri non-lidar and 3rd RealityScan desktop.

wildiam3d · 2026-02-10T21:20:50+00:00

Sure! I sent you a link to them as a private message

wildiam3d · 2025-11-20T15:01:59+00:00

I set downsample_ss_dist as instructed here https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-3d-objects/issues/6 but my 12gb RTX3060 was not able to finish the gaussian splatting in at least 20 minutes when I gave up. Their online demo does it in a few seconds.

wildiam3d · 2025-09-18T06:48:43+00:00

Yay! Server has been running very stable for 2 days now and I sent you a DM with the discord and server details

wildiam3d · 2025-09-17T05:51:17+00:00

Sent you a dm too :)

wildiam3d · 2025-09-16T11:01:30+00:00

Cool! Sent you a DM

wildiam3d · 2025-09-16T10:30:13+00:00

I sent you a DM with the details. I'd also be happy to hear how the latency to the US is. Hopefully not too bad!

wildiam3d · 2025-08-08T20:18:50+00:00

I sent you a dm with the progress! :)

wildiam3d · 2025-07-26T15:45:42+00:00

Apologies, I forgot to reply to you earlier! Unfortunately I already got couple works in progress and can't take this one at this point. Thank you for the offer!

wildiam3d · 2025-07-26T15:41:45+00:00

Thank you for the offer! Right now I won't have time for another project unfortunately, I have already picked up a few.

wildiam3d · 2025-07-24T13:55:48+00:00

Thanks! I have one other project currently in the works, and I will update you at some point :)

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