What's actually possible without professional hardware.

To be upfront: this is general information about what the Matterport platform allows, not a description of how any project here actually gets captured. Every tour delivered by this business is shot entirely on the Pro2: never a smartphone, never a consumer 360° camera. What follows explains the other options that exist within the wider ecosystem, and why they're not the right tool for the work done here.

The real difference: a visual tour, or a digital twin

This distinction matters more than the hardware itself. A visual tour is navigable and looks good, but carries no real dimensional data. You can walk through it, but you can't rely on a measurement taken from it. A digital twin, built from genuine depth data, is dimensionally accurate enough to support real measurement and floor plan extraction. Everything delivered here is the latter.

Smartphone capture, generally

The Matterport Capture app does support building a walkable model from a phone's own camera, using photogrammetry to stitch sequential shots together. A phone with LiDAR (recent iPad Pro and iPhone Pro models) improves on this with real depth data alongside the visual capture. Reasonably useful for a single small residential unit, or an early training exercise, not for anything where dimensional accuracy actually matters.

Consumer 360° cameras, generally

A Ricoh Theta or similar 360° camera, paired with the Matterport app, captures a full panorama in one shot instead of the sequential multi-angle process a phone requires, noticeably faster. Reasonable for a basic Google Business Profile listing or a simple real estate walkthrough where visual context matters more than precise geometry. The output still doesn't carry true depth data, and low-light performance is generally weaker than dedicated professional hardware.

Why the actual work here stays on the Pro2

Manufacturing plants, hotel ballrooms, museum galleries, accessibility audits: none of that is well served by a visual tour that can't be measured. The Pro2's 135-megapixel imagery and real depth sensing is what makes a tour dimensionally dependable, which is the entire point of documenting a space rather than just photographing it.