One drive, three deliverables: how a single pass becomes a digital twin
Most 3D-capture workflows make you choose: a pretty fly-through or survey-grade measurements or an asset inventory. 4D-360 produces all three from one drive.
Mount a 360° camera and a multi-band GPS on any vehicle and drive the route once. From that single pass, the pipeline returns three deliverables side by side:
- Immersive 360° video — a navigable record of the corridor, time-stamped frame by frame, so you can revisit any point on the route as if you were standing there.
- A measurable, georeferenced point cloud — every point carries a real-world coordinate, so the scene becomes a ruler you can query in the browser. (More on that in Measure infrastructure in your browser.)
- A photoreal, navigable scene — a lifelike render you can move through, with the visual fidelity of the original drive. See a worked example in Phone video to 3D point cloud.
Because all three come from the same georeferenced pass, they line up perfectly with each other — and with your GIS basemap. The video shows you what is there; the point cloud tells you where and how big; the navigable scene lets anyone in the organization explore it without specialist software.
That shared foundation is what makes the next stage possible: AI feature detection reads the imagery and the cloud together to build a typed asset inventory, and repeat drives turn the whole thing into a living, always-current record.
It’s the difference between a one-off survey and a survey-grade digital twin you can keep refreshing for the cost of a drive.
Want to see the full pipeline end to end? Watch the video gallery, or get in touch to scope a capture of your network.