From the course: Matterport 3D Scanning and Visualization (2018)

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Verifying scan alignment

Verifying scan alignment - Matterport Tutorial

From the course: Matterport 3D Scanning and Visualization (2018)

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Verifying scan alignment

- [Instructor] Sometimes when you're scanning on the Capture app, you'll notice that the actual model is not being created in a square way. In other words, you might see some scans start getting crooked or hallways start drifting. That's normally okay. The algorithms on Matterport Cloud can compensate for that, but once in a while it might get too far off or it may show a scan that's actually a 30 degree rotation or something way out. If you start getting too crooked on the actual capture when you're watching the scans being built on your Capture app, then you might wanna delete that scan and try again from a little bit closer position to your previous scan. If the drift is not being corrected, you can just try scanning somewhere completely different and see if that works. Sometimes I've scanned large spaces, this is especially true for large spaces, and you'll see this sort of misalignment start happening on the Capture app in a significant way. So I try scanning from a position…

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