Actually I am testing exactly what you mentioned. From 360 pictures I am extracting frames towards ceiling and floor. Most likely in 2-3 days I will post the result

That's really interesting. For the 8 extracted angles, would you recommend distributing them evenly so they cover the entire 360° sphere, or would you intentionally bias the framing toward areas like the floor and ceiling while giving less coverage to the sides? My thought is that, since the Sony A6700 images would already provide high-quality coverage of most objects and side walls, it might make sense to dedicate more of the extracted Insta360 images to the floor and ceiling, where additional viewpoints could improve the global reconstruction. looking forward to see your third method published. cheers !

Hi, tbh I wanted to save this for the conclusion of my upcoming third method, but I'm happy to share it briefly here as well. My conclusion is that the Insta360 unfortunately isn't the best option for interior spaces in terms of output quality (when extracting frames from video). I'd suggest using a normal camera for the main images, and using the Insta360 more sparingly — shooting in 70MP photo mode to create sort of "checkpoints" images for coverage safety, ensuring every angle is captured. You may have noticed that in the splat where only the Sony camera was used, the floor isn't reconstructed well (and here comes Insta360 as a solution), since I focused more on the walls and objects. I'd also suggest using a CPL filter on the lens to avoid reflections. Additionally, in this splat I combined the raw .insv file from the Insta360 with edited JPGs from the Sony in MipMap, which isn't ideal for hybrid workflows — the system struggles to calculate common/overlapping areas between the two camera sources. For a proper hybrid solution, I'd suggest extracting images from 8 angles of each individual 360 frame, then combining these with the main camera images to generate the point cloud (in RealityScan, for example), and training that in whichever 3DGS software you prefer. That's exactly what my third method will focus on

Impressive work ! would you be open to share any conclusions out of these two tests ? out of these two results, would you say there's any advantage to combine both camera images (from the Sony and the Insta360)? it seems like the 1500 images from the other scan, only using the Sony images, is as good or if not better than this one that has +5000 images... curious to hear your opinion on this. thanks for sharing !

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