02·3D & Spatial
Barnes Vantage
An international portal for viewing real Dubai residences in 3D: walk any of them yourself in the browser, or have a broker drive the same walkthrough live while you follow on your own device.
ResultConsolidates three former tools, marketplace, scan viewer, and co-browse, into one dark, map-led platform.
[ Walk the live 3D scan ]01Discover
Why it exists.
The pieces already existed at BARNES Dubai: a library of real 3D scans, a walkable viewer shipped on the property pages, a valuation signal, a marketplace of curated listings. They lived on separate apps, and every switch between them lost the thread.
Barnes Vantage is an international viewing portal: open a dark, living map of Dubai where every point is a real on-site Gaussian-splat capture, not a render. Ask a question in plain language, and read which communities are best covered before you even open a scan.
See it live
Sales Showroom, Dubai Internet City
The viewer Vantage drops you into when you pick a residence on the map. A real PortalCam capture of the showroom, 2M Gaussians on desktop, rendered live in your browser. WASD to walk, Q/E for height, drag to look, scroll to zoom.
02Define
The brief.
Let anyone, anywhere in the world, open a map of real Dubai residences and walk a real 3D scan of one, live, the same way a broker in the room would show it.
03Develop
What it took
Skills behind it.
Primary discipline plus the support stack.
Skills demonstrated
- Frontend EngineeringPrimary
Map-led interface worked out by iteration: MapLibre canvas, natural-language search, and the analytics panels tested against live scan data.
- 3D & SpatialSecondary
Moved the walkable scan to PlayCanvas Streamed-LOD (SOG-native) and set the qualification gate behind the Verified by Vantage badge.
- Product StrategySecondary
One operator surface where three separate broker apps used to be.
- Backend EngineeringSupporting
Self-hosted WebSocket relay for broker-led co-browse, assembled through trial and error.
Develop · Notes
The build, in full.
How it came together, the decisions on the record, and the design system - kept off this page so the case study stays a read, not a scroll.
Read the full build notes04Deliver
What shipped.
Consolidates three former tools, marketplace, scan viewer, and co-browse, into one dark, map-led platform. Twenty-one scans are live under a written Verified by Vantage standard.
Live pilot, not a demo: stress-tested under load, a memory-streaming fix proven live, and every dead button found by checking real fetch calls against real routes, one at a time.
By the numbers
Residences mapped
Communities
Internally certified scans
passed the written Verified by Vantage standard; the app header counts what is walkable in 3D, a slightly larger set
Research origin
The paper-to-product thread this project sits inside. The full chain, paper through benchmark to shipped, is on the thread.
- 3D Gaussian SplattingSee thread
Turning ordinary photographs of a real place into a 3D scene you can walk through in a browser.
- Web renderer selectionSee thread
Which renderer can actually hold a nine-million-splat scan in a browser.
- VSLSSee thread
A vendor-neutral spec for verifying and integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting scans.
See also
3D & Spatial
3DGS Research Pipeline
A reproducible harness with 26 Gaussian-splat engines wired into it, scoring which reconstruction survives a real luxury interior.
3D & Spatial
Scan to Floor Plan
Turning a 3D scan into a drawn-to-scale floor plan, and the measured finding that the machine-learning version lost to a far simpler method.
3D & Spatial
Spatial Asset Intelligence
Turning one handheld building scan into a fire-safety asset register somebody can check, and deciding which classes were dependable enough to hand over.