Historic Preservation
SLAM Technology brings WWI Tunnels to Life
A recent partnership between GeoSLAM with Virginia Polytechnic Institute shows how reality capture and VR can take people back to experience the little-known story of mining warfare in World War One.
Leica embraces Frank Lloyd Wright’s experimental spirit to scan “Taliesin West”
An innovative effort to accurately model the complex architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home…
Restoring Notre Dame: How that 3D data might actually be used
In the early aftermath of the fire at Paris’ historic Notre Dame cathedral last month,…
Professor’s Notre Dame Map Shows Half-Ruined Cathedral in Historic Detail
As the Irish converted to Christianity in the fifth century, Saint Patrick created scores of…
The myth of accuracy in 3D capture (and the value of SLAM-based handheld lidar)
Accuracy specs are the most important thing to look at when you’re buying a new scanner… right?
Matterport Cortex gets quick 3D from 360° photos using AI and computer vision
A $400 camera is all you need to enter the age of computational 3D sensing.
Why the iPhone X is the perfect smartphone for 3D volume measurement
The iPhone X is setting a new standard for photogrammetry–but not for the reasons you think.
VanGogh’s new 3D capture app for the iPhone X active sensor
VanGogh Imaging is the latest company to exploit into the iPhone’s active sensor.
Super-realistic 3D scans for AR/VR using a smartphone camera with flash
AR/VR models need a lot more than high accuracy to look realistic.
Scandy: Apps that test the limits of iPhone 3D capture (and volumetric video)
Scandy’s latest app uses the iPhone’s TrueDepth active 3D sensor to scan in 3D, but the company has a lot more up its sleeve (including a forthcoming 3D video app).
Kaarta’s Stencil 2 release offers a lot more than a new compact mobile lidar
Though the changes include the kinds of updates you might expect—better hardware, improved accuracy, easier workflow and so on—the updates to the UI and processing are the real stars of the show.