Partikle

3D mapping and scene understanding for AR / VR. Partikle for iOS now shipping:

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Capture the world in 3D, with Partikle for iOS:

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@iwamah1 Partikle is still a one-time purchase! No subscription.

https://t.co/IwqF2Wd6b4

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@YkuwDesign @iwamah1 🙏❤️

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@jonstephens85 @monoganog @HasnainVohra3 Yes. The Partikle approach is to provide each separately. There’s a 3D mesh. There’s a list of planes. And there’s a 2D map.

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Other than “better scan quality” what are you looking for in 3D scanning?

Huge scenes? Very high resolution? App integration? Industry-specific use cases? An SDK to build your own scanning apps? Android support? Drone support?

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@HasnainVohra3 Yes, always open to fresh perspectives. Segmenting / moving furniture sounds fun just on the face of it! It's narrowing down the commercial potential that dictates features.

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@HasnainVohra3 Does the submeshing need to be by object? (Chair, table, wall) What if there was one sub-mesh per square meter (or whatever)? That’s very easy to export and frustum cull.

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@HasnainVohra3 Interesting.

Partikle only draws a mesh for the active view frustum. I’d expect Unity/Unreal to also break a large static (word) mesh into blocks for frustum culling; is that not the case?

So you want to break a large scene into submeshes at export time?

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@monoganog @HasnainVohra3 If I understand, you want the planes a) smoothed to be “truly flat” AND b) decimated (big reduction in poly count)?

Decimation / poly reduction is on our roadmap.

We support plane smoothing, but disabled it for lack of use cases. Might consider bringing it back as an option.

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@patrickmccrory @agent_cooper Sorry about that; Partikle DMs are open now!

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@patrickmccrory Which apps? Which file formats?

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@monoganog @HasnainVohra3 Partikle can do this, but it looks weird in practice. How would you use it?

The hard part is knowing what to do with, say, a book case or plants against a wall. Delete them? Flatten them? Fill in the missing space? Is the end goal a 2D floor plan, or a 3D color scan?

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@HasnainVohra3 We are prototyping this, actually. Is your use case real estate? Subtracting / moving furniture in a scan?

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And, the fix is in! Version 1.638 properly supports iOS 15.

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We apologize for the Partikle app crashing on iOS 15. A fix has been submitted to Apple and should be available soon.

https://t.co/IwqF2Wd6b4

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@Scobleizer Yup. The Partikle LiDAR app is being updated almost weekly, and now supports large scans:

https://t.co/IwqF2Wd6b4

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@tomgoskar @dbboardman @SiteScapeAI @PolycamAI @iFilmFlops @MKBHD @albn @Sketchfab @JSelikoff @jm_tressler All decent scanning apps are able to filter noisy points, exactly like this posting describes.

Partikle certainly does. It is the most basic kind of filtering.

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@dbboardman @SiteScapeAI @PolycamAI @iFilmFlops @MKBHD @albn @Sketchfab @JSelikoff @jm_tressler There are solutions to drift, noise, and scaling up (scaling down is harder but I’ve had some luck around 2-5mm).

Can you explain what you mean by “planar separation”?

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@SiteScapeAI @PolycamAI @iFilmFlops @MKBHD @albn @Sketchfab @JSelikoff @jm_tressler +2

Do you have concerns about capture quality with the current lidar?