Guide
How to turn a photo into a 3D spatial experience
Last updated: October 12, 2026
A photo freezes one moment from one point of view. Spatiorama turns it into a spatial experience: a 3D scene you can step into, look around, move through and share with anyone. Here’s how it works, and how to get from a photo in your camera roll to an explorable scene in a few taps.
What you get
Spatiorama doesn’t just add depth to your picture. From your photo it builds a complete spatial experience, filling in what the camera didn’t see, so you can turn around, step forward and look behind things. The result is a Spatiorama: a lifelike space made of millions of tiny, soft points of colour, a technique known as Gaussian splatting.
Because parts of the scene are generated rather than measured, they’re a plausible continuation of your photo, not an exact copy of the real place. That’s what makes a single photo enough.
Step by step
- Get the app. Spatiorama is on the App Store for iPhone and in beta on Android. Open it and sign in.
- Start a new Spatiorama and pick a photo from your library. A wide shot of a place (a room, a street, a garden) works best. See getting the best results for tips.
- Create it. A standard generation uses 160 credits. It takes a few minutes, and you can leave the app while it works.
- Explore. Open your Spatiorama to look around and move through it, or step inside it in augmented reality, straight from your phone.
- Share it. Every Spatiorama gets its own link. Anyone you send it to can open it in their browser, with no app needed.
More than one photo, or none at all
A single photo is enough, but you can also start from:
- Several photos of the same place, up to eight. With two to four, you can say which way each one faces (front, back, left or right) so Spatiorama knows how they fit together.
- A 360° panorama, which already shows the whole view around you.
- A short video as you move through a space.
- A text description of a place that only exists in your head.
Some inputs are part of the monthly plans; see pricing for what each plan includes.
Who can see it
Nobody, unless you share it. Spatioramas are unlisted by default: they aren’t listed or searchable anywhere, and are only reachable through their hard-to-guess link.
Taking it further
You can export your Spatiorama to use in other tools, as a compact SPZ file, a full PLY file, or a high-quality mesh. SPZ vs PLY explains which to choose.
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.
