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PointClouds VR
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About this technology
Overview
Visualizes and manipulates point clouds from multiple scientific domains in virtual reality, including time-dependent point clouds. Point clouds can be colored by reflectance, natural color, elevation, or even mapping hyperspectral data to color channels. It can animate points forwards and backwards in time from calculations or by loading separate point cloud datasets as frames. It is able to visualize locations captured from LIDAR data, such as lava tubes scanned by planetary scientists, to allow revisiting field sites.