RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room

Here&#x27;s an alternative with a more interactive work flow: <a href="http://magic-plan.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;magic-plan.com&#x2F;</a> .

Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren&#x27;t there are apps that do this? By the time I&#x27;ve &#x27;scanned&#x27; a room the way it&#x27;s shown in the article, and if that method doesn&#x27;t even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, <i>and</i> is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I&#x27;ve measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.

This seems to be in the neighborhood of Johnny Lee&#x27;s thinking in Project Tango: <a href="https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;atap&#x2F;projecttango&#x2F;</a> ... a lot of the information collected by the increasingly precise sensors is going to allow for next level of... something... I think Project Tango is an example of not knowing what the future is in sensing and looking for network effects to fill in the gap.

Tried this app out a few days ago. The measurements in it are surprisingly good. I was finding it about ~10% out at most.<p>All in all, it is a very good (FREE!) app that can be used to get a decent idea of what might be needed in home renovation.

I hoped that either they got their hands on Project Tango device or worked with this team in Zurich - <a href="http://www.i-programmer.info/news/192-photography-a-imaging/6688-any-mobile-camera-can-be-a-3d-scanner.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.i-programmer.info&#x2F;news&#x2F;192-photography-a-imaging&#x2F;...</a><p>Edit:<p>Btw, anyone who applied for Project Tango got back from them in any way? I didn&#x27;t.

Could anyone possibly shed some light on what is used for measurement? gyro?

Google&#x27;s Project Tango (<a href="https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;atap&#x2F;projecttango&#x2F;</a>) and Structure.io seem to be the most promising in this area.<p>I have difficulty seeing any professionals adopting RoomScan as it still seems more difficult than just using a laser measure.

This would be nice if I can feed the output to my neato( or roomba).

I got a lot more excited when I read about this a while ago (2012) [1]. It also states to be slightly more accurate. It also seems less cumbersome.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/126843-think-gps-is-cool-ips-will-blow-your-mind" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;extreme&#x2F;126843-think-gps-is-cool-...</a><p>I haven&#x27;t tried anything, but it seems there are already lots of solutions and this is just another approach.

AppStore link: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roomscan-app-that-draws-floor/id571436618?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;gb&#x2F;app&#x2F;roomscan-app-that-draws-floo...</a><p>Couldn&#x27;t find it on my brief scan of the article.

I&#x27;ve tried this a while ago. Did not work very well at all on an iPhone 4S, it would either tell me to re-try or come up with a plan that was completely off.

&quot;Your phone wasn&#x27;t able to record all of the movement. Please try again&quot;<p>can&#x27;t get past 2 walls. iphone 4s

HomeDepot should let people use this instead of charging 30 for a measure and loosing it 3 months later

I usually Look at it for a few seconds and then think about what I want to do in there in my Brain.

Does anyone know how it actually works?