TL;DR
You can now make a real estate virtual tour without a 360 camera. The Pedra app takes the 360 photos itself: stand in the center of each room and take 8 guided shots on your phone. Pedra stitches them into one 360 photo, finishes the ceiling and floor with AI, and links the rooms into a navigable virtual tour in about a minute. Virtual tours stay unlimited: each room you shoot with your phone uses 1 credit for the AI finishing that removes the seams and completes the ceiling and floor. The first shots are free, no credit card needed.
What's new: 360 photos from your phone
Until now, a 360 photo of a property meant buying a 360 camera, which is usually expensive. If you wanted virtual tours on your listings but didn't have the budget for a professional 360 camera, that was where it stopped.
Now the phone you already carry is enough. The app screen puts it in one line: "No 360 camera? Shoot each room as 8 guided photos. We stitch them and finish the ceiling and floor with AI — 1 credit per room."
How to take 360 photos with your phone, step by step
- Open the Pedra app, tap Virtual Tour and pick the property you're in.
- Choose Take 360 photos with this phone. Add the rooms in the order you'd walk the property — that's how the rooms get linked.
- Stand still in the center of the room and tap Start. Center the white pointer inside each blue dot until it turns green, rotating slowly on the spot. That's 8 shots per room.
- Tap Take the next room and repeat. In the video: a living room, an office and a bedroom.
- Tap Back to Tour. Pedra stitches the 8 shots of each room into one 360 photo and finishes the ceiling and floor with AI, so it looks natural.
- Tap Next: Build Tour. "Building your tour… We're linking the rooms together. This takes a minute — you can close the app." You can leave the property while it builds.
The result
A navigable virtual tour of your listing: buyers move between rooms with the navigation points and can zoom into each space. It opens on mobile and looks best on desktop. Share it the way you share any Pedra tour, as described on 360° virtual tours for real estate.
What it costs
1 credit per room, for the AI finishing. Virtual tours are unlimited: stitching the shots and building the tour don't use credits. Each room you shoot with your phone uses 1 credit for the AI finishing that removes the seams and completes the ceiling and floor, so the three-room flat in the video used 3 credits. The first shots are free, no credit card needed.
Already have a 360 camera? Keep using it
The same screen has a second option, Upload from a 360 camera. Pick the exported 360 photos from an Insta360, a Ricoh Theta or another 360 camera in your camera roll and build the tour just like before — see how to make a real estate virtual tour from your phone with your own 360 photos.
Availability
Live now in the Pedra app on the App Store and Google Play. Already have the app? Update it to get the new 360 capture.
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FAQ
Can I make a real estate virtual tour without a 360 camera? Yes. Since 29 September 2026 the Pedra app takes the 360 photos itself. You shoot each room as 8 guided photos on your phone, Pedra stitches them into one 360 photo, finishes the ceiling and floor with AI, and builds the virtual tour.
How many photos do I take per room? 8 guided shots per room. Stand still in the center of the room, tap Start and center the white pointer inside each blue dot until it turns green, rotating slowly on the spot.
How long does it take to build the tour? About a minute once the rooms are shot. You can close the app and leave the property while Pedra links the rooms together.
How much does it cost? Virtual tours are unlimited. Each room you shoot with your phone uses 1 credit for the AI finishing that removes the seams and completes the ceiling and floor, so a three-room flat uses 3 credits. The first shots are free, no credit card needed.
Can I still use my 360 camera? Yes. On the same screen, choose Upload from a 360 camera and pick the exported 360 photos from an Insta360, a Ricoh Theta or another 360 camera in your camera roll.
Does it work on Android? Yes. The Pedra app is on the App Store and Google Play. If you already have it, update it to get the new 360 capture.
Video transcript
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Taking a 360 photo of a property in order to build a virtual tour used to mean buying a 360 camera, which is normally very expensive, but not anymore. Now with Pedra's app, you can take 360 shots and actually build the 360 virtual tour directly from your phone. And it's super simple, and in this video, I'm going to show you how it works.
Basically, you walk to the center of each room in the property, you go to Pedra's app, you select Virtual Tour, and you start taking the guided shots that Pedra will take you. You take eight shots per room, and Pedra automatically creates the 360 shot and applies some AI processes so that it looks great.
So the first thing that we're going to do is go into the Pedra app, which is the app that I have here. We're going to open it, and we're going to click on Virtual Tour, and we're going to select the property we're in, which is this one, Flat in Barcelona. And then we're going to pick the option of take 360 photos with this phone.
Perfect. So what we're going to be doing here is basically point where the blue dots are without moving from the position we stand. Okay? It's very important to stand still in the center of the room that we marked and to be completing the shot of the blue dots. Okay? We basically center the white pointer inside the blue dot until it turns green.
Perfect. So we just took the eight shots of this room. So then basically we have the first 360 shot taken, and we can go to the next room. Perfect. We click Start, and we begin taking the eight shots for the next room to complete the 360 shot of this office area.
Okay. Perfect. And last, we go into the bedroom. We click on Start, and then just as we did for the other two rooms, we stand still on the center, and we slowly rotate to take the eight shots so we can build a complete 360 shot picture.
Perfect. We can click on Back to Tour. And what the app will do now is basically complete the 360 shot. It will apply some processes to them so that they look good and natural based on the eight shots we took for each room. And once done, we're going to be able to click on Create Virtual Tour to complete it. Okay, so now we're going to be waiting a bit for that.
Amazing. So now we are here. Okay? We're in this screen, and basically what we're going to do is click on Next: Build Tour, and we're going to be waiting a bit for the tour to complete. This is normally one or a couple of minutes. You can already leave the property and the tour will be built out.
Perfect. So here we have the virtual tour already ready. As you can see, we basically have the result of the 360 shots here, and we can click on the navigation points to go to the different rooms that we have. Okay? For example, here we have the office, and we can click here to go back to the main room. And then if we wanted to go back, we can click here again. And for example, we can also zoom in into the space. And for example, we can also go to the bedroom that we have here.
Perfect. And that's basically it. This is a more vertical size view of the virtual tour. People will normally see it on desktop, which looks better, and that's pretty much it.
So if you want to start taking virtual tours and don't have the budget to get a professional 360 camera, you can get started off with the Pedra app because it allows you to take 360 shots of the property. If you want to try it for free, you can find it on the app on the Play Store under Pedra, and the first shots are free without credit card or anything.
