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All topics →- Reality Capture15Reality capture is the process of digitising physical spaces and objects – with laser scanners, SLAM devices, cameras and drones – into point clouds, meshes and images that can be measured, modelled and shared.
- Gaussian Splatting93D Gaussian Splatting represents a scene as millions of soft, coloured points instead of triangles. It renders photoreal captures in real time, including in the browser, but produces weaker geometry than meshes or point clouds.
- SLAM7SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) scanners build a 3D map while tracking their own position, so a site can be captured by walking through it. They trade some accuracy for speed compared with tripod-based laser scanning.
- Drones7Drones carry cameras and LiDAR payloads to capture terrain, stockpiles, structures and construction sites from the air.
- Digital Twins6A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical asset connected to the data and decisions that matter for it. A point cloud or 3D mesh can be part of a twin, but on its own it is closer to a 3D snapshot.
- BIM6BIM (building information modelling) turns buildings into structured, data-rich models. Scan-to-BIM converts reality capture data into those models.
- Photogrammetry5Photogrammetry reconstructs 3D geometry and texture from overlapping photographs, from handheld cameras to drones.
- XR5XR covers virtual, augmented and mixed reality – headsets, glasses and 360/3D video used to view, navigate and train in captured spaces.
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Dylan GormanDrone mapping, PilotByte Labs
Rami TamimiGeomatics project manager and Ph.D. candidate, WSP
Olli Huttunen3D Gaussian Splatting creator
Michael SchoelkopfDirector, Product Management Reality Capture, NavVis
Barry BassnettDigital twin practitioner, author of Tower of Twins
Povilas SindriūnasBusiness Developer, Undet
Nikhil SawlaniFounder, MultiSet AI
Arash KeissamiCEO, NIRA
Bilawal SidhuCreator, spatial computing and AI
Zlata KarpushinaGo-To-Market Strategist, FJ Dynamics
Mehdi BoroumandSLAM scanning practitioner, Australia
Kelly WattReality capture and digital twin programmes
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