Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

82 todsacerdoti 11 5/4/2025, 9:49:40 PM owentrueblood.com ↗

Comments (11)

maeln · 11m ago
A slight tangent but rollerblades is a case of proprietary eponym : Rollerblade is a brand of inline skates (often call skates - plural - for short) that became so famous people started to use it to describe all inline skates, no matter the brand. Just like vaccum cleaner and hoover :)
dllu · 2h 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 · 34m 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?
mkarklins · 6m ago
On cheaper side there's MID360
pj_mukh · 2h 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 · 5h 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 · 2h ago
Also a lot less robust depending on baseline.
fshafique · 6h ago
You should post this on /r/Photogrammetry on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/
condensedcrab · 6h 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 :)