3D Capture & Technology Licensing
License proven mobile 3D scanning, photogrammetry and Gaussian splatting pipelines as SDKs, source code or white-label apps.
Laan Labs licenses its 3D capture technology to companies that want scanning in their own product without building it from scratch. The pipelines cover iPhone and iPad LiDAR scanning, TrueDepth close-range scanning, RoomPlan floor plans, photogrammetry and Gaussian splatting, and are available as compiled frameworks your developers integrate, as source code your team builds on, or as white-label apps. Laan Labs also builds custom integrations on top of them and offers RadianceView, its browser-based platform for inspection and documentation.
The technology has been proven at scale. Laan Labs created 3D Scanner App, one of the first and most widely used LiDAR scanning apps on iOS, and licensed versions of it to insurers, startups and industrial clients before selling the app in 2025. The same engineering now powers OpenSurvey3D for georeferenced fieldwork, 3D Splat App for Gaussian splatting on Mac, and RadianceView.
Licensing suits companies in insurance, construction, real estate, manufacturing, medical and aerospace that need reliable capture inside a workflow they control, and startups with their own computer vision teams that want a tested starting point instead of a year of foundational work.
What we do
- Framework (SDK) licenses
- Compiled iOS frameworks for LiDAR, TrueDepth and photo capture, processing and export that your developers drop into an app, with Laan Labs maintaining the technology inside.
- Source code licenses
- Full source for your engineering team to modify and extend, with onboarding from the people who wrote it. Chosen by startups that want to own their stack and move fast.
- White-label apps
- A complete, branded scanning app delivered under your name, with the features your users need and nothing they do not.
- Custom integration
- Scanning connected to your systems: policy and claims workflows, asset databases, cloud storage, measurement and reporting, as built for an insurance client's estimation and claims process.
- Export and interoperability
- Meshes, point clouds, floor plans and splats in standard formats such as OBJ, USDZ, glTF, PLY, LAS, DXF, SPZ and SOG, so captures flow into CAD, GIS, BIM and web viewers.
- RadianceView
- An inspection-grade platform that combines mobile scans, LiDAR, Gaussian splats and photographs into one browser-based record, with findings tied to where they were seen.
How we work
A licensing conversation starts with the use case: what is being captured, by whom, on which devices, and what has to happen to the result. From that Laan Labs recommends the capture method (LiDAR, TrueDepth, photos or a combination) and the license type, and provides an evaluation build so your team can test on real jobs before committing.
Licenses include integration support and updates for new devices and OS releases; custom work is scoped and quoted separately. Contact labs@laan.com for pricing.
Build it in-house or license it?
Mobile 3D capture looks approachable until the edge cases arrive: tracking loss, drift, reflective surfaces, memory limits, and a new device every autumn. This is the trade-off companies weigh before licensing.
Time to first usable scan
Build in-house
Many months of foundational work before the product feature can start.
License from Laan Labs
Working capture inside your app in weeks.
Technical risk
Build in-house
Unknowns in tracking, reconstruction and device support discovered along the way.
License from Laan Labs
Technology already proven in apps used by millions of people.
Team
Build in-house
Requires hiring and keeping computer vision specialists.
License from Laan Labs
Your developers integrate; the engineers who wrote it support them.
Maintenance
Build in-house
You track every new iPhone, sensor and OS release yourself.
License from Laan Labs
Updates for new devices and OS versions are part of the license.
Ownership
Build in-house
You own what you manage to finish.
License from Laan Labs
A source code license is available if you want to own and extend the code.
Cost
Build in-house
Salaries and time, before any revenue from the feature.
License from Laan Labs
A known fee, quoted up front.
| Aspect | Build in-house | License from Laan Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first usable scan | Many months of foundational work before the product feature can start. | Working capture inside your app in weeks. |
| Technical risk | Unknowns in tracking, reconstruction and device support discovered along the way. | Technology already proven in apps used by millions of people. |
| Team | Requires hiring and keeping computer vision specialists. | Your developers integrate; the engineers who wrote it support them. |
| Maintenance | You track every new iPhone, sensor and OS release yourself. | Updates for new devices and OS versions are part of the license. |
| Ownership | You own what you manage to finish. | A source code license is available if you want to own and extend the code. |
| Cost | Salaries and time, before any revenue from the feature. | A known fee, quoted up front. |
Teams with a computer vision group of their own often take a source license and build on it; teams without one take the framework and concentrate on their product.
Related work
3D Scanner Integration
How Licensing 3D Scanner App Revolutionized An Insurance Company's Workflow
Stockpile Volume Measurement
How much is in that pile? Laan Labs built a volume measurement tool into its mobile LiDAR scanning pipeline, so contractors, landscapers, aggregate yards and surveyors can measure stockpiles, excavations and fill in cubic yards and cubic meters with the phone in their pocket.
Job Estimating App for Outdoor Work
Landscapers, tree care crews and small contractors quote jobs from a tape measure and a guess. Laan Labs built a job estimating app on its mobile 3D scanning pipeline: LiDAR measurement of the work, guided questions for what a scan cannot see, and an estimating model that turns both into hours, materials and a quote.
Source Code Licensing
Case study about licensing source code to a startup with a CV/ML team to accelerate their development
TrueDepth Scanning
Case studies of how our customers are using TrueDepth Scanning
Mobile LiDAR Workflows
How professionals are incorporating mobile LiDAR Scanning into their operations
InfraTech 3D Scanning
Workflow overview of how mobile phones are used to capture and create various 3D representations such as NeRF's and Gaussian Splats for managing InfraTech Assets.
RadianceView Aircraft Documentation
Before a retired airliner is taken apart, its parts need a record. This is how RadianceView and an iPhone turn an aircraft into one: the whole airframe as a splat, the detail as photographs, every finding tied to where it was seen.
Real Estate & 3D Scanning
How Mobile 3D LiDAR is changing how the industry works.
Gaussian Splat Training on Mac with Metal
Most Gaussian splatting trainers are built on CUDA for NVIDIA GPUs. We ported a CUDA splat trainer to Metal so it runs natively on Apple Silicon. The result is 3D Splat App, a free app that trains splats locally on your Mac.
Products built with this work
- RadianceView — Inspection and documentation platform
- OpenSurvey3D — Georeferenced 3D scanning for fieldwork
- 3D Splat App — Gaussian splatting on Mac, free
Common questions
Which devices and sensors does the technology support?
LiDAR scanning runs on iPhone Pro and iPad Pro models with the LiDAR sensor. TrueDepth scanning runs on any iPhone or iPad with Face ID. Photo-based capture, photogrammetry and Gaussian splatting work with images from any camera, including drones and 360° cameras, and the processing runs on-device, on a Mac or in the cloud depending on the pipeline.
How accurate are mobile LiDAR scans?
Under good conditions iPhone and iPad LiDAR scans are accurate to roughly the centimeter at room scale, which is suitable for documentation, estimation, floor plans and visualization. They are not a replacement for survey-grade instruments where millimeter precision is required; for small objects, TrueDepth scanning at close range gives finer detail.
What does a license cost?
Pricing depends on the technology, the license type (framework, source or white-label) and the scale of use, and is quoted per project. Contact Laan Labs at labs@laan.com with a description of the use case.
Do you still own 3D Scanner App?
Laan Labs no longer operates the 3D Scanner App listing in the App Store, which was sold to a private investor in July 2025. Only the listing was sold. Laan Labs retains the intellectual property rights to the underlying technology, licenses it to other companies, and keeps building 3D capture products such as RadianceView, OpenSurvey3D and 3D Splat App.
Start a conversation
Tell us about the project and one of the founders will reply. Email labs@laan.com or use the contact form.
Related services: Capture Pipelines & Inspection, Gaussian Splatting, Spatial Computing, AR & VR
Industries: Insurance & Claims, Real Estate, Medical & Body Scanning, Robotics & Automation, Construction & AEC, Automotive, Manufacturing & Inspection, Art, Museums & Heritage