Capturing the Air and Space Museum with Rovi i.1

One 45-minute walkthrough. Two digital deliverables. A museum that stayed open throughout capture.

The Air and Space Museum brings aviation history into a space filled with aircraft, expansive hangars, and exhibits overhead. Capturing that environment means working around wings, fuselages, landing gear, and visitors—all while maintaining alignment across a large space.

We brought Rovi i.1 to the Air and Space Museum to put its mobile capture capabilities to the test.

Why Rovi for the Air and Space Museum?

The museum called for a scanner that could move through a large, complex environment with minimal setup and provide useful results from a single walkthrough.

Maintain Alignment Across the Hangar

Long walking paths and large open volumes can allow small tracking errors to accumulate. Rovi’s hybrid visual and LiDAR SLAM maintained alignment across the museum walkthrough, with very little drift observed during capture.

Move Around Aircraft Without Station Setups

Aircraft create challenging geometry and hidden surfaces. Wings extend across walking routes, landing gear adds intricate detail, and suspended aircraft introduce overhead obstacles.

Rovi’s mobile workflow allowed us to move through and around the exhibits without tripods, station setups, or targets, while the museum remained open to visitors.

Check Coverage While Still on Site

We completed the capture in 45 minutes, checking coverage in real time on the phone before leaving. That feedback helped us assess what had been captured while we were still in the space.

Create Two Deliverables From One Walk

The same walkthrough produced two complementary outputs:

  • A measurable point cloud for design, measurement, and technical documentation.
  • A photorealistic 3D Gaussian splat for immersive browser-based exploration through FARO Sphere XG.

The point cloud supports technical work. The Gaussian splat lets viewers explore the museum’s captured spaces and aircraft exhibits visually.

One Museum Capture, Multiple Uses

At the Air and Space Museum, Rovi i.1 combined a 45-minute capture workflow with outputs for both technical documentation and visual exploration.

Why Rovi? Because one walkthrough can create a measurable record and a shareable 3D experience—even in a large, complex museum that remains open during capture.

Want to see the Air and Space Museum capture or discuss your own space? Contact our team.