What Is Reality Capture?
Mix (1 tools)
- License: 0 open source · 1 proprietary
- Hosting: 1 self-hosted · 0 SaaS · 0 both
Reality capture is the process of recording a physical space as digital data and then viewing, measuring, and annotating that data as a faithful “as-built” record. Two data types dominate:
- 3D point clouds – millions to billions of measured points produced by LiDAR / laser scanning or photogrammetry, each with a position (and often color/intensity), forming a dimensionally accurate 3D representation of a space
- 360 panoramas – immersive spherical photos captured at scan positions that provide photographic context and let a reviewer “stand” inside the captured environment
A reality-capture viewer lets users navigate that data, take measurements (distances, areas, clearances), drop annotations, and share the result. The value is being able to inspect and document a site without physically returning to it.
Common use cases:
- Factory / plant documentation – as-built records of production floors and equipment layout
- Construction progress – periodic scans that track build status against plan
- Digital twins – a visual, measurable representation of a facility kept alongside its operational data
- Facilities management – clearance checks, space planning, and remote inspection
Key evaluation concerns for this category:
- Large point-cloud rendering – streaming and level-of-detail so billion-point scans stay interactive in a browser or on a workstation
- Measurement accuracy – trustworthy distances/areas derived from the captured data
- Web vs desktop viewing – browser access for broad review vs desktop clients for heavier work
- Self-host vs cloud – whether capture data can stay on-premises (important for sensitive industrial sites) or must live in a vendor cloud
- Formats – point-cloud exchange formats such as E57, LAS/LAZ, PLY, plus panorama tile sets and vendor-specific project containers
About this data & disclaimer
The information on these pages was researched by a combination of human review and large language models. This catalogue serves as a reference for the resources, applications, devices, deployment payloads, and other components that the ResorsIT platform integrates, deploys, and manages. To suggest an addition or correction, please contact us. Prepared by Rhodium Systems Inc., author of the ResorsIT platform — a unified IT operations management platform for IT teams and MSPs that integrates a curated suite of open-source, commercial, and SaaS applications into a single system with shared identity, single sign-on, access control, and a common audit trail. This information is compiled on a best-effort basis: it may be incomplete, contain errors, and become out of date as tools, vendors, licences, and features change. Use this catalogue only as a starting point for your own research, and independently verify and review any tool carefully against your own requirements before relying on it.
Comparison
Only f360 Vision has a detailed evaluation so far, so the matrix below has a single row. It is structured to grow as commercial players such as NavVis IVION, Matterport, Leica JetStream, Autodesk ReCap, Faro WebShare, and Pointfuse are added.
Feature Matrix
| Tool | Point cloud | Panorama | Self-host | License | Web viewer | Desktop app | Measurement | Formats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f360 Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes (Docker) | Proprietary | Yes | Yes (Win/Mac/Lin) | Yes | .f360 project |
Notes
- Self-host – f360 Vision ships a Docker-based on-prem server, so capture data can stay entirely within the customer network (air-gap friendly). Most enterprise competitors are cloud-hosted.
- Web + desktop – f360 Vision serves both a browser viewer and cross-platform desktop clients from the same backend.
- Formats – f360 Vision uses its proprietary
.f360project container. As more tools are added, expect a wider format column covering E57, LAS/LAZ, PLY, and panorama tile sets. - SSO – no native OIDC/SAML is documented for f360 Vision; front the web viewer with Authentik via a reverse proxy. See f360-vision.md.
Tools
1 tools.
f360 Vision
Self-hosted 3D point-cloud and panorama viewer for documenting and measuring industrial environments.
License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker, direct · SSO: none
ResorsIT usage: Web App without SSO
Access & Identity: Forward-auth · Vaulted credential
