Are meshes making point-cloud animation pointless?
Tools for rendering point-cloud animations to show off your work or communicate with clients have gone dormant over the past decade. Are meshes making point clouds obsolete?
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Test driving Toyota’s 3D-enabled safety features
Rapidly changing sensor technologies are accelerating the growth of ‘safety-focused’ active vehicle features, which can help drivers to adapt slowly to fully autonomous vehicles.
SiteSee shows how AI will fully automate 3D model analysis
The intelligent infrastructure solution offers a view of something much bigger than cell-tower analytics–a future where humans never have to touch 3D data in the first place.
4 hot-as-fire sessions at SPAR 3D 2018
SPAR’s Bill Emison is here to help you pick the must-see sessions at SPAR3D.
Bentley makes two acquisitions to bring BIM to geotechnical pros
When you think of infrastructure work, you probably picture above-ground construction. But it’s just as…
nFrames: Automated information extraction for high-volume photogrammetry
As data update frequencies and acquisition resolution keep increasing, photogrammetry is becoming a huge challenge. nFrames is here to help.
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…
“Cognitive” GPR uses smartphones, AR & edge computing for underground utility location
Underground utilities are a pain. To perform construction work, we need to know where they…
Viametris’ lidar scanning backpack shoots panoramas, too
The system is designed to capture indoors, as well as the areas that outdoor mobile scanners can’t reach, such as narrow streets and pedestrian zones.
Ouster has a new $3.5k, 16-channel lidar (and a 64-channel sensor with longer range)
With an expanded product line, the company is ready to take on the dominant lidar tech in the space.