Rayform vs Niantic Spatial
A capture app that turns a scan into a static simulation scene, versus Rayform's processing of full robot recordings over time.
What Niantic Spatial does.
Niantic Spatial's Scaniverse app turns a 360 capture into a single USDZ file that pairs a Gaussian splat with an aligned collision mesh, ready for Isaac Sim. It also offers a library of about 100 environments packaged the same way.
Where they are strong
- Very easy capture with a phone or a low-cost 360 camera.
- Gravity-aligned, metric-scale scenes in one file that opens in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.
- Free sample scenes and a capture app anyone can use.
How Rayform differs
- Scaniverse produces a static scene: one moment of a place. Rayform processes recordings over time, with people and robots acting in them.
- Rayform aligns robot joint and gripper state with the sensors and marks interactions, so the output is training data, not only a backdrop.
Side by side.
| Capability | Rayform | Niantic Spatial |
|---|---|---|
| Works with your own recordingsUpload from your own robots, rigs or phones. | Yes | Yes |
| 3D reconstructionSplats, meshes and collision geometry built from your recordings. | Yes | Yes |
| Sensors and robot state alignedRGB, depth, LiDAR and joints on one clock and one coordinate frame. | Yes | No |
| Interactions on the timelineGrasps, placements and moved objects detected and marked. | Yes | No |
| Search across recordingsFind every grasp, scene or condition across all your data. | Yes | No |
| Versioned training slicesFrozen selections that always return the same data. | Yes | No |
| Export to training formatsLeRobot, RLDS or WebDataset for training; USD for simulators. | Yes | Partly |
| Self-serve accessStart without a sales call. | Partly | Yes |
Choose Niantic Spatial when
- You need static backgrounds for a simulated robot, captured quickly with a phone.
Choose Rayform when
- You record robots or people doing tasks and want to train on what happened.
- You need robot state and sensor streams aligned with the scene.
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