Into The Scaniverse: Step into your splats with Meta Quest VR
Use the free Scaniverse app on your phone to create, process, and upload a 3D scan, then experience your splat as a visceral virtual-realty scene. The whole process takes less than five minutes.
See the World...
Navigate across the globe to find scans made by the Scaniverse community and dive in to see the world from their perspective. Into the Scaniverse features over 50,000 scenes to discover and explore, with more scans adding to the map every day.
...and Go There.
Step into a 3D scene and immerse in art, culture, history, or fascinating slices of everyday life. From famous locations to hidden treasures, you never know what you might find.
Take a Virtual Tour
Wherever you wander, Into the Scaniverse puts you right there in vivid 3D, with accurate lighting, reflections, and surfaces. You’ll be surprised how real it feels, even if you’re actually thousands of miles away.
Download for Free
Available now on the Quest Horizon Store for the Meta Quest 3.
Visit dragons in Kyoto, Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C., an Elvis shrine in England… there’s a whole world out there to explore when you step Into The Scaniverse.
FAQs
Important things to know about using this experience.
It is currently available on Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Stay tuned for expanded support to other VR platforms.
It's available for free on the Meta Horizon Store and on the web via intothescaniverse.com!
Gaussian splatting is a new technique for representing real-life scenes in 3D.
It can model the world with amazing detail and fidelity, accurately capturing not only the geometry of the scene, but also lighting and reflections. Best of all, Gaussian splats can be created automatically from scans captured with your smartphone by leveraging the latest advances in machine learning.
Scaniverse is a free app for 3D scanning. It’s the first and only to offer on-device Gaussian splat processing, and connects to a global map that hosts the world’s largest collection of splats.
It’s available for iOS and Android
No, you do not. You can navigate the map and explore the full collection without logging in. However, you must log in to like splats or to see your own splats, and to log in you must first be logged in on the Scaniverse app on your phone.
Red pins mark splats uploaded by individual Scaniverse users. Blue pins are for community scans, which are compiled from photos taken by people recording point-of-interest information for other Niantic programs such as Wayfarer.
If you log in, you can access all splats you have uploaded, including those that are unlisted or not on the map. Find them in your Profile.
Without logging in, you’ll have to have uploaded them to the public map and then navigate to the location.
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After completing the tutorial, activate your Profile from the filters list on the right of the basket. You’ll see a connection code.
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Open Scaniverse on your iOS or Android device, view your Profile, go to the … menu, press Authorize Meta Quest and enter the connection code.
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Back in Into the Scaniverse on your headset, the profile panel will confirm the link and you will now see a list of splats you have shared to the map or uploaded unlisted.
Yes, you can save locations by “liking” the splats. You will need to be logged in with a Scaniverse account.
To achieve real-time responsive performance, we developed a series of splat optimization techniques. Visual fidelity is generally sharper with nearer and smaller objects, while the backgrounds are less detailed than what can be seen on a phone or in a browser.
Also, Scaniverse 4.0.4 on iOS optimizes splats for Into The Scaniverse during original processing, leading to improved quality compared to previously uploaded splats that we have reprocessed on the server.
Please visit the Scaniverse Community section to share your thoughts. Your input will really help as we prepare to launch a native Meta Quest app.
This is due to your splats being processed with older Scaniverse versions.
If you update Scaniverse on your iOS device and reprocess and re-upload the splat, you'll have a VR-optimized version ready for you in Into The Scaniverse.