Guide
Getting the best results: photos, panoramas, video and text
Last updated: October 12, 2026
Spatiorama builds a whole spatial experience from what you give it, so the input shapes the result. You don’t need special equipment: a phone camera is plenty. These tips help you get a sharper, more convincing Spatiorama from each kind of input.
A single photo
The photo is the only real view of the place, so give Spatiorama as much to work with as you can.
- Go wide. Show the space, not a detail: a whole room, the full street, the garden from its edge. If your phone has an ultra-wide lens, use it.
- Shoot at eye level, holding the phone level, the way you’d naturally look at the place.
- Keep it sharp and well lit. Steady your hands and avoid dim, grainy shots. Even daylight or warm indoor light works better than harsh flash.
- Clear the foreground. A person or object right in front of the lens hides the space behind it. People and moving things in general don’t translate well into a still scene.
- Leave out heavy edits like strong filters, borders or added text. They become part of the scene.
Several photos of the same place
More photos mean less guesswork: each one shows a part of the place as it really is. You can use up to eight.
- Same place, same moment. Take them together, so the light, weather and furniture match.
- Turn, don’t walk. Stand in one spot and turn to face different directions. With two to four photos, tell Spatiorama which way each one faces: front, back, left or right.
- Keep the same shape. Shoot every photo in the same orientation and aspect ratio (all landscape, for example). With five or more photos Spatiorama arranges them automatically, and that needs every photo to be the same shape.
A 360° panorama
A panorama shows everything around you at once, which makes it one of the best starting points. It needs to be a full 360° image in the standard “equirectangular” format, which is exactly twice as wide as it is tall. 360° cameras produce this format, as do photo-sphere modes in some camera apps. The regular panorama mode on most phones only captures a wide strip, so it won’t work as a 360° panorama, but it can still be used as a single photo.
A panorama is used on its own, not combined with other photos. Hold the camera level and keep people out of the shot.
A short video
- Move slowly and smoothly. Fast pans and shaky footage blur the frames Spatiorama learns from.
- Keep it short and focused on one space, rather than wandering through a whole building.
- Use good, steady light, and avoid walking from bright sun into deep shade mid-clip.
- Use video on its own. Videos and photos can’t be mixed in one Spatiorama.
A text description
No photo? Describe the place instead. Specific descriptions give more convincing results than vague ones. Mention:
- The place: “a narrow cobbled lane between brick townhouses”, not just “a street”.
- Materials and style: stone, oak, tiles, mid-century, rustic, minimal.
- Light and time of day: “soft morning light”, “after rain at dusk”, “lit by a fireplace”.
- One place at a time. A single coherent space works better than a list of different scenes.
Text descriptions can’t be combined with photos or video. For inspiration, the example Spatioramas show the kinds of places that work well.
Which input should I use?
- You’re there now: take a few photos facing different directions, or a 360° panorama if you can.
- You have one great photo: use it on its own.
- You filmed it: use the video.
- It doesn’t exist yet: describe it.
Every input type costs the same 160 credits per standard generation. Some inputs are part of the monthly plans; see pricing.
Try it yourself
Spatiorama is on the App Store for iPhone, and in beta on Android. Make a Spatiorama, then explore and share it from your phone. You can also look around our example Spatioramas in your browser first.
