Hey, I am working in a small surveying company in Germany and we recently bought an Xgrids Lixel K1 Mobile-Mapping-Scanner. It is a very cool machine and can produce Gaussian splats quite fast.
The problem is, you can only look at them with the Windows software that comes with the scanner, which makes it difficult to show the results to customers.
So I took the WebGL viewer from Antimatter and made my own version, with some functions that are useful in surveying / real estate:
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Named views + guided tours
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Wall detection (so you donโt walk through them)
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Distance measuring (still not fully working)
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Slice tool to look inside
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Touch navigation like Google Street View
๐ Try it here: IAGV Bรผro Demo
๐ฅ Video: IAGV Pixelraum
Note: As the splat is ~200mb it takes a while to load. Thats another thing i want to dig into, how to optimize loading times.
The scan was 8 minutes and about 15 minutes processing. Of course the quality is not perfect, but I think for that time it is quite good. Next step is to try with drone images for aerial view.
I would be happy if you try it out or watch the demo and tell me what you think.
Videos
I want to run .ply file that i have got as output, in an online environment. Is there any opensource codes for viewers that support this (preferably libraries that i can add as script into my html)