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Overview

To use Niantic's SDK (NSDK), you must have a Scaniverse account. Each account belongs to an Organization, which manages projects, collaborators, and shared resources.

Scaniverse is designed for production workflows, shared ownership, and scalable deployment. Scaniverse enables cloud processing for large-scale reconstruction, VPS map generation, and lets you merge scans from multiple team members into a single site output for use with the NSDK.

The Scaniverse app includes a New experience designed for NSDK workflows and cloud processing. To use it, existing users must create a new Scaniverse account; you can use the same email address. The Classic experience remains available for single scans and local processing.

Scaniverse use cases

The New Scaniverse experience lets you:

• Scan large or production-scale environments.
• Create and manage VPS-enabled locations.
• Collaborate with a team.
• Manage shared projects across an organization.
• Build client-facing or commercial applications.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure that you have the following:

• An iPhone 13 or newer. iPhone Pro models with LiDAR produce higher-quality results. Android support is coming soon.
• Physical access to the location you want to scan.
• A New Scaniverse account. If you don't have an account, follow the steps in Create a Scaniverse account.

Plans and pricing

Scaniverse offers subscription plans with different levels of usage capacity. Higher tiers provide increased processing credits, storage, collaboration capabilities, and additional features for production workflows.

Pricing scales with usage, allowing individuals to experiment with smaller projects while giving teams and organizations the resources needed to manage larger environments and deployments.

For current plan options and limits, see Plans and Pricing.

Install the Scaniverse app

Download the latest version of Scaniverse from the Apple App Store.

Existing Scaniverse users can update to version 5.2 or later, then switch to the New experience as follows:

1. Open the Scaniverse app.
2. Tap LIBRARY at the bottom of your screen.
3. Tap the Settings wheel at the top of the screen.
4. Tap Discover the New Scaniverse.
5. Tap Continue.
6. Log in using the email address associated with Scaniverse or authenticate with Google.

Create a Scaniverse account

You can create a Scaniverse account by signing yourself up or by accepting an invitation into an existing Organization in Scaniverse.

Sign yourself up

You can sign yourself up on the Scaniverse app or in Scaniverse Web.

1. Open the Scaniverse app or navigate to Scaniverse Web.
2. Select the New experience. You can't use the Scaniverse NSDK with the Classic experience.
3. Select Continue.
4. Tap Sign up at the bottom of the screen.
5. Choose a sign-up method:
   • Sign up with Email to associate your email with your Niantic login.
   • Sign up with Google to authenticate with your Google account.
6. Select the verification link sent to your email to activate your account. If you don't receive an email, check your spam or junk folder.
7. Enter an Organization name.
8. Select Allow Once or Allow While Using App to grant Scaniverse permission to use your location.

Accept an invitation

You can also create an account by accepting an invitation from someone inside an existing Organization.

1. Ask someone inside an existing Organization to complete the steps to add others.
2. Select the Accept Invitation link sent to your email to activate your account. If you don't receive an email, check your spam or junk folder. A web browser opens to prompt you to join Scaniverse.
3. Enter your first and last name to Join your team on Scaniverse.
4. Choose a sign-up method:
   • Sign up with email to associate your email with your Niantic login.
   • Sign up with Google to authenticate with your Google account.

Contact Niantic's Sales team if you have questions or need additional capacity for production deployments.

Check usage quotas

Quotas apply per user within an Organization for:

• The number of total private Sites they can create
• The total number of minutes of scan processing time.

The Free tier plan includes:

• 5 total private Sites
• 25 minutes of scan processing time

You can check your usage against your plan in the Scaniverse Dashboard as follows:

1. Log in to Scaniverse Web.
2. Select Dashboard from the left navigation bar.

The Dashboard shows the total number of private Sites and scan processing minutes towards Asset Generation relative to your quotas.

If you need to increase your quota, select Contact sales to reach out to Niantic's Sales team. See Plans and Pricing for plan details.

Add others to your Organization

You can invite someone by email to join your Organization. They do not have to have an existing Niantic account.

1. Log in to the Scaniverse Web.
2. Select your profile at the bottom of the left navigation bar.
3. Select Account settings.
4. Select the name of the Organization that you want to add a person to.
5. Select Send invite.
6. Enter their email address. You can also select Add another to invite more people.
7. Select Send invite.
8. Ask the person to check their email for your invitation. The link in the email expires 7 days after you invite them.