SOMEONE JUST QUIETLY DISRUPTED REAL ESTATE

A guy walked through a house with his phone. Scanned it. Done.

Now anybody anywhere in the world can tour that house from a browser. No app to download. No VR headset. No agent to call. No scheduling anything.

You click and you are inside. Every corner. Every room. Every detail. Looks completely real.

The math alone should make realtors uncomfortable.

Agent commission on a $500k house: $15,000

Cost to scan the whole thing: around $200

Time to virtually tour 50 properties: one evening on your couch

File size: smaller than a video you would send on WhatsApp

The tech behind it is genuinely fascinating.

It is called 3D Gaussian Splatting. Instead of the polygon grids that video games use to render environments, it builds the scene from millions of tiny colored depth points. AI stitches your phone photos together and reconstructs the space so accurately that standing in it feels like the real thing.

And the business angle is already moving fast.

People with a phone and a weekend are charging realtors, Airbnb hosts, car dealers, museums, and wedding venues anywhere from $300 to $800 per scan.

One person. One phone. One weekend. A real income stream.

It is open source and built on PlayCanvas.

Free on GitHub: github.com/playcanvas