Photorealistic 3D scans and virtual tours
Virtual tours, 3D scans and digital twins of real estate, venues and products. Photorealistic, free to walk, live in the browser with no app.
Photoreal capture of real objects and spaces, for when a built model is not enough. For a built product viewer with AR, see 3D Product Visualisation. For a walkable store, see Virtual Stores and Exhibitions.
Move freely instead of jumping from point to point
A classic 360° virtual tour is a set of panoramic photos, and the viewer jumps from one standpoint to the next. A 3D scan made with Gaussian Splatting is one continuous space: visitors move freely, get close to materials and details, and see light and depth as they are on site. Capture runs on cameras or a drone. The result plays straight in the browser, on desktop and on phones, and embeds into your website or platform.
Who a 3D scan pays off for
Estate agents, property developers and builders show existing homes and new developments as virtual viewings. Hotels, restaurants, event venues and studios market their spaces with a 3D tour that carries info points and buttons for booking or enquiries, as Restaurant Kramer in Berlin-Neukölln does. Car makers and dealers present vehicles and prototypes as 3D scans, brands show their products in the online shop. Industry and facility management document halls and buildings as digital twins. Museums and associations preserve heritage, such as the historic aircraft at the Bienenfarm vintage airfield. Film and game productions use scanned locations as sets in Unreal Engine. And at events and company parties, guests get volumetric photos of themselves.
In the Hangar Studio or mobile, outdoors too
We scan vehicles at the Hangar Studio in Berlin: on a flush turntable five metres across, in a TISAX-certified environment that also protects prototypes. Our partner GoSPL photographs there in RAW with a full-frame camera, a wide-angle lens and a tripod; a car takes around 200 images at three heights around the vehicle. Spaces such as restaurants, halls or flats are captured on site the same way.
For everything that does not come to the studio, GoSPL developed a mobile volumetric capture rig: 20 DSLR cameras on five light modules, fired at the same instant by radio and aimed by laser. One press of the button and 20 cameras hold the same moment from 20 angles. Because the modules can be carried, the rig works anywhere, outdoors too: out in the open, on company grounds or in the middle of an event. At the solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 this produced more than 70 scenes on Tempelhofer Feld in about two hours. The 3D photo booth below is one application of this rig. After capture, the images are colour-corrected, aligned and computed into 3D scenes overnight.
A 3D photo booth for events and company parties
The 3D photo booth is one application of the mobile rig. A normal photo shows a moment from one angle. A volumetric photo keeps it as a 3D scene: after the event, guests turn themselves and their group in the browser, zoom in and see the moment from every side, like the bullet-time effect from the cinema, only under their own control. Sharing works by link, with no app, on any phone, and every shared link leads back to your event and your brand. At one anniversary party this produced around 200 volumetric photos in three hours on 15 m². The rig stands as a booth or moves through the crowd, for summer parties, Christmas parties, anniversaries, trade fairs and product launches. The results appear in an online gallery styled to your brand.
Walkthrough or orbit
Spaces and buildings become walkable like a viewing, with a bounded floor area so nobody walks through a wall. Vehicles and products sit on a turntable and are orbited. On top come info points, guided tours and buttons for booking or enquiries. On request the scene also runs on VR headsets or as an application for Apple Vision Pro.
From capture to operation
In joint projects our partner GoSPL handles the on-site capture and the reconstruction. RAVE SPACE handles integration into the RAVE ENGINE, the interactive features, hosting and operation. Both teams are based in Berlin and capture on location, also outside Berlin. You receive the finished tour, embedded in your website, not just the raw data of a scan. For you it stays one contact, one quote and one contract.
Vehicle scans at Hangar Studio
Orbit · turntable Ø 5 m up to 5 t · TISAX certified
A compact hatchback on the turntable of Hangar Studio in Berlin Adlershof, a listed aircraft hangar. The flush-mounted turntable is five metres across and turns vehicles of up to five tonnes. Above it hangs a twelve-metre light ring that can rotate in sync with the turntable, so the light falls on the car the same way from every angle, which is what a clean 3D scan needs. The studio is TISAX certified, the automotive industry's security standard for handling prototypes, with a screened prototype room and electronic access control. Orbit the car and move in close on paint, glass and panel gaps.
Architecture, walkable from the inside
Walkthrough · 60 m² · 6M splats
Inside the XOIO mountain chalet: Christmas tree, a fire in the oven, snow outside the windows. The scene is not a photo scan but rendered from a 3D model and reconstructed from those frames. That is how new developments and designs can be walked and marketed before the building stands.
Marketing a location
Walkthrough · 120 m² · 2 hours on site · 2M splats
The Hangar film studio in Berlin Adlershof, captured in two hours on site. Anyone renting out a hall, a studio, an event floor or meeting rooms can show all of it, with no viewing appointment and no rendering that looks different on site.
Products in the studio
Orbit · studio capture
A Zero FX, captured at the Hangar film studio. For products where the surface makes the difference: brushed metal, paint, tyre tread. The viewer turns the object instead of clicking through an image gallery.
Virtual tours for real estate
Walkthrough · residential building
A residential building in Mödling, free to walk. Light, depth and materials stay as they are on site. Prospects tour the rooms before the first viewing, in the browser, with no app.
Capture: RAVE SPACE
Digital twins from drone footage
Drone capture · free to walk
Drone footage of buildings, halls and outdoor sites becomes a digital twin: a walkable 3D model for documentation, planning and analysis. This hall was captured from the air and can be flown through freely.
Capture: RAVE SPACE
ZIM
The research and development of this technology was supported by the Central Innovation Program for SMEs (ZIM). The funding provider is the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
Every scene below runs in the browser with no installation. Open one on its own, or walk the whole gallery.
- Restaurant Kramer · Berlin-Neukölln Walkthrough Capture: GoSPL
- Bücker · Bienenfarm airfield Walkthrough Capture: GoSPL
- Stearman biplane · Bienenfarm airfield Orbit Capture: GoSPL
- XOIO Mountain Chalet · Exterior Orbit Capture: GoSPL with XOIO
- XOIO Mountain Chalet · Interior Walkthrough Capture: GoSPL with XOIO
- Chausseestraße Walkthrough Capture: GoSPL
- E-Motorbike Zero FX Orbit Capture: GoSPL
- Automotive Scan · Hangar Adlershof Orbit Capture: GoSPL
- Film Studio Hangar Adlershof Walkthrough Capture: GoSPL
- Posthof Mödling Walkthrough Capture: RAVE SPACE
- Bicycle Orbit Capture: GoSPL
- What is Gaussian Splatting?
- A method that computes a 3D scene from many photos. Instead of polygons, the scene is made of millions of small coloured points in space, the splats. That keeps light, materials and fine detail as real as in a photo, while the scene stays free to walk.
- How is this different from a 360° tour or a laser scan?
- A 360° tour is a set of panoramas at fixed standpoints that you jump between. A 3D scan made with Gaussian Splatting is one continuous space you move through freely and get close to. For exact measurement the laser scan stays the right tool; for photoreal presentation it is Gaussian Splatting.
- Can the tour be embedded in our own website?
- Yes. The scene runs in the browser with no app and no installation, on desktop and phone. Every scene comes in two tiers, a full one for the desktop and a lighter one for the phone. Share it by link or embed it in your website; RAVE SPACE handles hosting and operation.
- How does the capture on site work?
- GoSPL arrives with camera and tripod or with the mobile rig. A space like the 120 m² hall in Adlershof is captured in about two hours; the 160 m² of Restaurant Kramer took three hours between service and closing, without disturbing business. Prepare even light, tidy rooms with no one walking through the shot, and consent from anyone who will be in the picture.
- How long until the tour is ready?
- Capture takes hours, not days. The scenes are computed overnight, followed by preparation for the web and setting up the tour, info points and features. The quote names the delivery date.
- What does a 3D scan or virtual tour cost?
- That depends on floor area, location and features such as info points, booking buttons or a gallery of your own. You receive one quote covering capture, preparation and hosting, and a first reply within 24 hours.
- What works well, and what less so?
- Sharply photographed, well-exposed surfaces and fine detail you can zoom in on work very well. Glass and highly reflective surfaces stay visible but look softer. Darkness costs detail, so capture happens in sufficient light.
- What is a volumetric photo, and is there volumetric video too?
- A volumetric photo keeps a moment as a 3D scene: 20 cameras fire at once, and the people in it can then be seen from every side. Volumetric video, meaning movement over time, also plays in the browser in the RAVE ENGINE, as the fashion show demo shows.
Tell us what you're planning.
A brief, an RFP or a first idea. We'll come back within 24 hours with a take.