Scan Everything: Building the Infrastructure for Augmented Reality
Everything is being scanned. From avocados to Amsterdam, from your living room to the local park, it has become easier than ever to take 3D snapshots of physical things.
Topic
LiDAR
A collection of 4 issues
Unreal Support for Azure Spatial Anchors
Unreal recently announced
[https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-25-released] support
for Azure Spatial Anchors
[https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spatial-anchors/] with the release
of Version 4.25.
At first glance, the announcement might seem like it most neatly ties into their
additional support for Microsoft’s Hololens. But
Matterport: Visualizing the Augmented Reality Cloud
Matterport lets you scan a 3D space, annotate it and share it with friends. They
recently launched [https://matterport.com/blog/future-space-palm-your-hand]
support for iPhones and you can download the app and give it a spin. If nothing
else it’s a chance to visualize part of the augmented reality
What Is The AR Cloud
The AR Cloud will unleash new capabilities by creating a 1:1 map of the physical
world. It promises to help turn the physical world into a digital interface and
operating system.
It’s perhaps the last frontier between here and ubiquitous computing:
information systems present in everything around us.