Geo Week News published a detailed field report on reality capture in active construction environments, drawing on insights from a recent webinar with specialists at Brasfield & Gorrie and Invizion Construction. The piece names OpenSpace as one of the platforms that helped bring continuous 360° documentation to the jobsite, crediting the “shark fin” camera workflow with transforming how construction teams capture and use site data across the project lifecycle.
The Geo Week News article traces the origin of widespread 360° reality capture on construction sites to a simple problem: field crews taking photos on their phones with no way to place those images in context. OpenSpace was one of the platforms that solved it. By enabling a camera mounted on a hardhat to capture continuous site footage with a single button press, OpenSpace gave construction teams a practical path from intention to execution. The result is a workflow now embedded across the full project lifecycle, from early condition assessments through progress monitoring, punch lists, and documentation that supports warranty work after handover. The article also highlights how OpenSpace fits within a broader toolkit: teams choose their capture method based on the precision and speed a given task requires, and 360° walkthroughs powered by platforms like OpenSpace handle the continuous documentation layer that holds everything else together.
The portion of the article focused on AI and automation is particularly relevant for OpenSpace customers. Industry practitioners describe AI as the force that will finally close the loop between data capture and the decisions that follow, automating the slow and manual processing work that has long stood between scanning and insight. What the field is pointing toward is a future where continuous capture, automated analysis, and AI agents surface issues before they become costly, and where the data that platforms like OpenSpace collect becomes the foundation for everything from progress tracking to predictive analysis. For construction teams already using OpenSpace, this trajectory is significant. The more complete and consistent the visual record, the more useful AI tools will be.
By: Abigail Hart
