Construction Progress Tours with 360 Video and Splats

Progress tours should make site state easy to revisit, compare, and explain to stakeholders.

Short answer

Construction teams need repeatable capture positions, dated tours, and notes that connect visual evidence to decisions.

Progress tours should make site state easy to revisit, compare, and explain to stakeholders. A useful test is simple: can someone open the tour, understand the place, and know what to do next without a separate explanation?

Spatial Studio supports repeated cloud generation from 360, phone, drone, photo, and mixed capture, plus local Mac work and Spatial Lens on iPhone Pro. Teams can publish date-specific tours, compare named viewpoints, embed progress, and control review links.

How to judge the workflow

Practical checklist

• Capture the same route on every visit.
• Name zones consistently.
• Add notes for blockers, changes, and completed work.
• Separate public sales tours from internal progress records.
• Keep dated links for review history.

Why Real Horizons is different

Real Horizons connects cloud splat generation with guided tour publishing. Spatial Studio supports captures from smartphones, 360 cameras, 360 drones, standard drones, DSLR/photo sets, and mixed media workflows. That matters when a construction or development team wants one path from site capture to dated progress tours instead of stitching together separate tools for processing, viewer setup, publishing, and stakeholder delivery.

Common mistakes

• Changing routes so monthly scenes cannot be compared.
• Capturing active work without safety coordination.
• Presenting visual impressions as survey measurements.
• Overwriting older captures instead of preserving a timeline.
• Publishing faces, plates, drawings, or restricted work.

Commercial packaging example

A land-development tour combines aerial context, waypoints, and site detail in one published view.

For this use case, the important question is what the tour helps a stakeholder verify. A construction team may need dated site state, zone notes, access context, blockers, completed work, or a clear record to revisit during review calls. For construction teams, developers, project managers, and AEC reviewers, the tour should make those checks easier within the first few seconds.

Keep every edition addressable by project, phase, and date. Stakeholders should know whether they are viewing the current approved record, a draft reconstruction, or a public progress story.

A city-scale map tour gives large sites the context that a room-by-room viewer cannot provide alone.

Use 360 video for efficient routes, drone capture for site context where permitted, and photos for critical detail. Link the tour to formal reports instead of embedding unverified conclusions in hotspots.

Coordinate each cycle with the site manager, review privacy and safety, and confirm retention. A progress splat is visual documentation, not a replacement for survey, inspection, contractual evidence, or the common data environment. See AEC Reality Capture Playbook.

Questions construction teams ask

Can progress splats replace a site survey?

No. They are useful visual records, but accuracy depends on capture and reconstruction. Use approved surveying, inspection, and project-control systems for measurements, compliance, and contractual decisions.

Should every capture be public?

Usually not. Keep internal documentation separate from public marketing, and review people, plates, plans, security details, and unfinished work before sharing any link.

Related reading

• Reality Capture for AEC
• Gaussian Splatting for Real Estate
• Splat Virtual Tour Software
• Real estate photographer packages