I show my techniques for using LiDAR on a long pole and also gimbal stabilised footage for capturing video that is then fed into a cloud based app that render neural radiance fields.
This burial chamber is called Pentre Ifan. The structure is in Wales and stands very close to the quarry that was used for Standing stones at Stonehenge.

Devizes Museum, Wiltshire holds quite a few treasures from Stonehenge and Avebury sites. I visited earlier this wee and gave my iphone 15 pro a test at scanning gaussian splats. These results took less than an hour to capture and another hour to process and edit.

Chilton Polden Priory manor house, Somerset, added to the app Kaiber.ai with a few prompts of fire and dramatic skies.

I use Neural Radiance Fields for capture with one AI app and the result was the first few seconds of this video with the added addition of prompts in another AI for generating videos.
This is a mates car...it's for sale but only in its original red condition. We'll need to wait for the HMD's to get better for GenAI version.

A few NeRF scans in St Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol, rendered in 4K cinematic video.

When Christianity took over, the church decided in their wisdom to build on the older sites with their buildings. One such transition can be found in Dorset at this site.
Interestingly enough a group of student dowsers found one of the previous standing stones of the site in 2005. It has been moved into the ruin since then.

I NeRFd this drone footage from a few years back. It's usable as a 3D model, but I'll probably edit more so I get a circle around the hill and tower.

SandBay Dirt Jumps is just around the corner from Weston Super Mare, Somerset. I was passing and thought it would make a good scan given that it is surrounded by a forest.

The Somerset town of Langport recently. Behind the river are the flooded fields of the levels.
The app makers at Lumalabs have made a new editor for the scans you take with the NeRF rendering. This means that the keep their reflections and light paths photorealistic.
The fly through is made by key framing the moves (Polycam app has same on Custom). You can also change background colour and camera speed as well. Much fun. A nice evening too.

I used Metascan for this with the interval photographic capture mode set at 2 seconds (it can go up to 4 secs apart) and set the device up high (5m) for the first loop around the building. I adjusted the height down about 2 metres for the second and the final loop I hand held it at eye level. The app takes 300 photos max which is almost enough, considering the size of the building.

Antique fairs are great places for scanning.

A 3D scan of benches in Glastonbury using NeRF app

I took over 500 shots of this with varying focal lengths to capture the details on the top.
This is a screen grab video from my ipad where I was admiring the details when the scan arrived back from the cloud. It still needs a bit of work to clean up the top and make it look better.
Quite nice results though imo.

I've been hoping to get a chance making these for a long time and thanks to the app Lumalabs.ai NeRF mobile app (currently in beta). It works the same way photogrammetry does with a cloud app.

Scaniverse is one of my go to apps for LiDAR scanning and this was made to show its simplicity of use for copying things and for editing.

A 3D photogrammetry scan in Metascan3D app

Using my extension pole, I am scanning Pentre Ifan burial chamber in Wales with a LiDAR and mobile app.

While I've been learning to use Blender I've been making small clips like these to show what a basic camera fly through with some lights can do to a few scanned objects. These are the Burrow Mump, a hill with a ruined church on it. A small ornamental standing stone circle and a reclamation yard sculpture.

Uphill Church is situated on a cliff top in Somerset. This video of the scans I took in and outside combined in Blender.

A few 3D assets I mashed together for fun in Blender.

This is a mixture of murals from the Glastonbury mural trail that I stuck inside Blender, lit and added a camera.
The render took about 20 hours on cycles.

This platform allows me to add my assets to my own space in VR and then invite people to come and explore and chat or have a classroom. It's what the Metaverse is going to be like in its infancy I expect. I like it and the other spaces(Frames) in the app you can choose for yourself.

A photogrammetry scan of the Royal Circus in Bath. I dropped it into Blender to light it and add a camera and 360 background. It's not completely perfect but I wanted to see what scale of a scan I could do. This is my largest to date.

A 3D scan using a mobile scanning app on iPad Pro 2020.

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