Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

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dllu · 1h ago

I once put an Ouster OS1 on a hat and walked around with it. Pic of me here: [1]

[1] https://x.com/ddetone/status/1141785696224477184?s=46

weinzierl · 8m ago

Very cool. When was this? If you would repeat it, which LIDAR would you use? Is there anything on a generous hobby budget nowadays?

pj_mukh · 1h ago

So cool! I wonder how the Lidar and ARCore poses were cross-calibrated?

Just to avoid this, I would just use a LiDAR equipped iPhone Pro, with industrial grade cross-calibration and still have all the visualization fun.

amelius · 4h ago

Wouldn't this be cheaper with a stereo pair of cameras + software reconstruction instead?

fake-name · 3h ago

That would need WAY more compute.

pj_mukh · 1h ago

Also a lot less robust depending on baseline.

fshafique · 5h ago

You should post this on /r/Photogrammetry on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/

condensedcrab · 5h ago

Very impressive! LiDAR and point clouds seem very promising, but the challenge of denoising point clouds and artifacts keep the skill bar very high/time intensive.

timzaman · 5h ago

Just install polycam and walk around :)

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Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

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