He explained that I needed to literally carry the data (inside the workstation’s hard drive) with me during my virtual tour because the rich 3D data was too heavy to be streamed from the cloud, at least in the present incarnation of the setup. He helped me strap on a backpack-mounted workstation loaded with the 3D data and adjusted my head-mounted goggles. The surreal experience of being in two places at once was made possible by a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles loaded with 3 million polygons, one of the exhibits at REAL2015 Conference (March 25-27, 2015).Ī representative from the City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) helped me get into gear. I was also standing in the middle of Cave 220 in Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang, China, just a few feet away from the ancient Buddhist murals painted on the wall. I was standing in the Herbst Pavilion at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, with the Golden Gate Bridge looming in the background. Autodesk Recap offers an easy way to work with acquired data from reality capture devices.

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