How to set a photogrammetry model’s scale in RealityCapture. — In this tutorial, I’ll be outlining three ways of setting 1:1 scale to a photogrammetry scanned model in RealityCapture. Option 1 is using a more automated approach with AprilTags. Option 2 is focused around manually measuring 2 points IRL in a scanning environment. Option 3explains how you can use images…

Automating the scale setting for my photogrammetry scans — This is an AprilTag scale marker made to set the correct scale for a 3D scan for photogrammetry software that support automatic detection of AprilTags (like RealityCapture). At 1:1 scale, the model is 18cm across, 6.5cm width, and 2mm high. Download the files Download the files from Thingiverse which include: STL of the…

If you find your photogrammetry model rotated in a super weird position once you align your images, this might be due to the images having bad GPS data (ie, most smartphone images). Images with GPS data However, if they do have GPS data (you can tell if they do whether or not the image…

A few things that might help your data align — Intro Images alignment is fundamentally the most important step to get right in a Photogrammetry scan, as that’s what will determine the quality of all subsequent processes. In Photogrammetry processing software can be a bit tricky sometimes, a bit indeterministic even. Here are a few tips that I’ve come across over…

Summary Today, we’re excited to announce a partnership with Gerpho3D, a Photogrammetry scanning company based in Bordeaux, France as a content provider for Puzzling Places. Together, we will be using some of their fantastic aerial scans of French chateaus, forts and castles, cityscapes, and more to turn them into puzzles for…

Today, we have an very exciting announcement to make — Puzzling Places is coming to PlayStation VR! We are excited to work with Sony to bring Puzzling Places to PlayStation VR in Winter of 2021, bringing meditative VR puzzling to a whole new audience. What does this mean for the Puzzling Places on Oculus Quest? We’re still continuing to develop…

In February, we migrated our original Puzzling Places [Prototype] to Oculus’s new App Lab platform under a new name: Puzzling Places — Beta! Today, we’re launching Puzzling Places — Beta v4.1, …

Making your 3D scan post look great — Intro Being a Photogrammetry artist and posting on Sketchfab for quite a few years, I’ve developed a workflow for uploading pieces to Sketchfab and making them look great. This post covers: Cropping your scan to have clean mesh borders. Optimizing for Sketchfab upload limits (and performance). Adjusting Sketchfab’s 3D settings to…

Planning and executing a large-scale aerial Photogrammetry project — This is part one of a three-part series, where we explain the details of some of the large challenges we faced while making this Photogrammetry VR Experience we made for Audi’s CES 2020 demo. Further reading — Part 2: Optimizing photogrammetry data for VR using the realities.io Pipeline Editor. Part…