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TriLumina: Lower costs for reliable lidar systems with VCSELs
TriLumina, founded in 2011, wants to enable broad deployment of 3D sensing with innovative illumination…
Delair’s new UX11 UAV exploits edge computing for a “future proof” geospatial mapping tool
Earlier this week, Delair announced the release of its UX11, a fixed-wing UAV designed specifically…
The USIBD Cornerstone Report wants to know what hardware you’re using
On April 24th, the USIBD (that’s the US Institute of Building Documentation) sent out the…
Artec announces new 3D Ray lidar for AEC & reverse engineering, new Geomagic integration
Last month, lidar developer and manufacturer Artec 3D announced a new metrology-grade laser scanner, the Artec Ray.
Innoviz inks deal putting its solid-state lidar in BMW autonomous cars
The deal is the first of its kind to be publicly announced.
NavVis announces Autodesk Revit add-in
Hot on the heels of its newly released M6 6D-SLAM trolley-based lidar scanner, NavVis is…
NavVis M6: 6D SLAM for large-scale indoor lidar mapping
The next-gen mapper uses a more versatile type of SLAM to handle almost any kind of complex environment you throw at it, and return faster, better results in the process.
Matterport and BIMobject to offer “a complete alternative to BIM” for facilities management
Matterport is perhaps the best known among the young companies selling a new kind of…
Luminar lidar starts production at scale
It still remains to be seen how low the prices will get.
Arvizio debuts collaboration suite for AEC HoloLens users
Today Ontario-based software vendor Arvizio announced an update to MR Studio, its flagship product for…
Kaarta’s “Reality Layer” processes photorealistic models in your handheld scanning device
Kaarta is known as much for its line of handheld 3D-mapping devices as it is…
Fyuse: 3D “version 2.0”
A new format enables smartphones to gain a 3D understanding of the world–for better machine learning and 3D visualization, and more versatile AR/VR.