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Why AR and VR need photogrammetry
Photogrammetry companies were quick to see the ways that VR/AR technology could use professional deliverables such as 3D city models. But at the moment, there’s an impasse, as photogrammetry companies...
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myWorld: A radical approach to location intelligence for non-GIS users in...
This is the first part of Bill Emison’s coverage of the recent myWorld Meetup, this installment focuses on the myWorld solution and next week will recap the event and dig into a variety of use cases....
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myWorld Meetup 2018: Using location to unify enterprise data
This is the second part of Bill Emison’s coverage of the recent myWorld Meetup, this installment will recap the event, further explore the potential of the myWorld solution, and dig into a variety of...
View ArticleVirtual Surveyor 6.1 turns drone point clouds into CAD models in just a few...
Virtual Surveyor is designed to help users create surveys from drone data. This week, the developers announced that the software will make this process easier by removing the need for a third-party...
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ContextCapture adds DIY machine learning object recognition, auto alignment,...
Given that Bentley focuses a lot of its energy on civil infrastructure, an industry notoriously slow to adopt new solutions, it might be surprising to learn that the company’s solutions tend to keep...
View ArticleShining 3D releases two high-res handheld 3D scanners, partners with Siemens...
Two months after announcing two wireless handheld 3D scanners, Shining 3D is upgrading of one of its most popular products, the EinScan-Pro, offering not one but two next-gen products: the EinScan Pro...
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2019: The year 3D data finally makes it through the full building lifecycle
Disclaimer: Will Tompkinson’s consulting firm, Insightful Dimensions, is continually engaged by a range of firms. All views expressed in this column are individual to Will and do not necessarily...
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Allvision: Connecting digital twins and ultra-intelligent data processing to...
SPONSORED BY ALLVISION Mobile laser scanners have grown much more powerful and user friendly in recent years, but these tools remain limited by one persistent problem: The point cloud data you get from...
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RIEGL has the next-gen lidar for your airborne, UAV, and land-based scanning...
SPONSORED BY RIEGL RIEGL has long been known for the quality of its lidar technology. One thing that often goes unnoticed, however, is the company’s unusual dedication to offering a wide range of...
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ILMF keynotes: AI data processing is maturing fast in other industries–but is...
ILMF (part of Geo Week) kicked off in Denver last week with a focus on the use case for 3D technologies—or, more specifically, the data. The keynotes were presented from perspectives outside of the...
View ArticlePropeller PPK gets survey-grade data from a DJI drone… with one GCP
At the International LiDAR Mapping Forum this year, it would be hard to ignore the way that the drone vendors—once contained to a little pavilion—are spreading out over the entirety of the expo....
View ArticleCompass Data: Everything you need for survey-grade geospatial drone capture
The list of needs when you’re launching a drone capture solution can be, well, bewildering. Compass Data can help. The company cut its teeth by building and offering a global network of ground-control...
View ArticleHow RIEGL’s lidar solutions balance specialization and flexibility
As the 3D-capture market matures, vendors are continuing to fill out their product lines with solutions that are ever faster, less expensive, higher quality, and so on. They are also starting to...
View ArticleRicoh Theta Z1: a high-res 360° camera for pros
In the past few weeks, a lot of technologies that got their starts in the consumer market have made a big play for professional users. We’ve seen it happen with mixed reality, virtual reality, and now...
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Bentley’s AIworx acquisition brings better infrastructure management with...
Bentley Systems infrastructure software applications for infrastructure are used for planning, engineering, designing, constructing, and operating assets. During the lifecycle of an asset, a large...
View ArticleTen Minutes with NIST’s Jeb Benson: Tech To Protect Challenge Encourages...
A federal agency’s open competition for the development of 3D technology could be a win-win for innovators (there is more than $2 million in prize money available) as well as a boon for 3D...
View ArticleWhy mapping and sharing underground information is a must
The Geospatial World Forum 2019 hosted the first international workshop on the digitization of the underground. Titled “Underground mapping for resilient infrastructure – Datafication of the...
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Microsoft’s Hololens 2 gives Airbus an inside look with mixed reality
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled the new, cheaper and upgraded HoloLens 2. Airbus, the aerospace giant, has been exploring mixed reality for several years and started working with Microsoft on...
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Trimble brings high accuracy to augmented reality with SiteVision
Trimble has been hard at work developing and testing a new augmented reality system; recently performing live demonstrations at several conferences, including the recent 2019 Esri User Conference in...
View ArticleSubSLAM Live can stream 3D scans from seafloor to surface
3D scanning has its data management challenges, including rendering, transmitting and sharing large files of scanned data in order to get them to the right stakeholders. But imagine having those same...
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