A day in the life of a Spatialist

A Thursday on the VirtualSpace network in Miami: three bookings, two cameras, one van. Client names are omitted; the schedule is typical of a working Spatialist's day.

6:10 a.m. Barbershop, before opening

Retail chains want the shop captured the way customers see it, so the day starts before the first appointment. A Matterport Pro3 on the tripod, about forty sweeps for a two-chair unit, thirty-five minutes door to door. The chain's capture standard is the same on every branch: start at the front door, include the back room, tag the electrical panel.

8:30 a.m. Upload from the van

The model uploads over cellular on the drive to the next job, so it is processing before the second site is reached. The site survey in the Spatialist app is completed at the same time: access notes, anything unusual, photos of the panel for the tag.

10:00 a.m. Office floor as-built

Two floors of a building midway through a fit-out. The architect needs a point cloud, so this is a NavVis VLX 3 walk plus a Matterport tour for the leasing team. Ninety minutes on site, most of it the VLX; the stairwells and riser cupboards are captured with the handheld.

1:30 p.m. Event venue

The venue sells private events and wants a tour with the room set for a wedding. The venue team dresses the room, the Spatialist captures it, and Space Stills pulled from the model supply the website photography. One visit covers the tour and the photographs.

4:00 p.m. QA and delivery

Every model is checked against the brief before it goes out: coverage, alignment, blur, tag completeness. The retail capture is delivered the same day. The NavVis cloud goes to processing and the modelling team; the client receives the Matterport link that evening and the cloud within a week.

What makes a good day

No surprises on site. A clear brief, a contact who answers the phone, and rooms that are ready. Everything else is repetition, and repetition is where the quality comes from.