Digital twins help transform the construction industry | VentureBeat
Digital twins (yes, we mention them a lot) are becoming much more widely used in the construction industry beyond pre-visualizations. In an industry known to be risk averse, twinning has the largest potential to reduce errors and redoing work since potential issues can be resolved digitally before they become costly problems on a construction site. Even if this isn’t an industry you have an interest it’s worth reading this article and considering how the impact digital twins will have in the years to come.
Here debuts enterprise XR- and 5G-ready 3D models of 75 major cities
More news on the 3D asset front, digital map maker Here Technologies has announced that their enterprise clients now have access to geospatially and volumetrically accurate models of major cities. Digital Twins are a major problem for global scale Augmented Reality, and the data and models make a reliable starting point for incorporating business logic atop the world.
Resonai: Discover new realities. Vera for AR + 3D visual search.
Vera is an impressive looking enterprise-grade platform that transforms commercial buildings into digital twins. Pairing this digital twin of your location with AI and computer vision and your company's business data sets allows an impressive amount of data to be overlaid with AR. Things like self-guided tours, navigation with chevrons and distance information, and a contactless experience with pricing and description for items within your space are achieved without low maintenance. What this company offers sets the groundwork for pushing in-person experiences to the next level, solving dozens of issues teams have providing accurate data to power any AR experience.
AWS’ Role In The Metaverse And Spatial Computing Is Constantly Evolving // Forbes
When thinking about a future connected Metaverse the Internet networks and servers powering it does not always get much attention. This article gives and impressive overview of how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has diligently been building out their services to for spacial computing, digital twins, and other areas that will play a key role beyond the companies that already rely on them.
Blazing-Fast Mobile 3D Capture | Canvas
Canvas is an iOS-only app that uses the LiDAR and Photogrammetry to create accurate measurements and full, professional, editable CAD models. The CAD service sets this apart from other scanning software that generally stop at point cloud and texture exports. The current generations of iPhone make this not only possible but exceptionally fast, and saves days of time when you need to capture a real world spaces for a digital twin.
The concept of a metaverse has been around for a very long time, and Earth 2 is looking to provide a place to own your own piece of a twin of the Earth we all inhabit at the time of this writing. Though still in the early stages the world is already set to a 1:1 scale with trillions of individual plots representing all the known world as digital virtual double.
Virtual Photographer™️ - threekit
threekit has a very interesting service that empowers companies to replace traditional product photographs with fully customizable virtual photos. We don’t know why this is just hitting our radar but are giddy with anticipation in trying this out. Hopefully they’ll agree to an interview and demo because this looks to be one of the best looking available applications of digital twinning in the consumer space.
Photorealistic 3D Map Tiles API // Google Developers
This is an amazing evolution of Google Maps, empowering AR/VR teams to use real world locations for the settings of their projects. Using reasonably high fidelity meshes from real world digital twins of cities you can place the user nearly anyplace in the globe. This is a game changer that we can see bringing more experiences heightened realism and empowering more personal, grounded storytelling without the need to spend thousands of dollars making your own replica environments.
Eon | Connected Products | IoT Platform | Circular Future
New York City tech startup Eon is creating a platform where fashion and apparel can create digital twins for every garment produced, applying the connected approach from the Internet of Things (IoT) to extend to clothing and footwear. With major brands already onboard, and a growing platform for their CircularID™ Protocol they may just be able to help break the cycle of clothing winding up in landfills instead of being reused or repurposed. To learn more about what the platform and their vision visit their resources page for reports and case studies, as well as the Developer Hub for more technical details.