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Could anyone possibly shed some light on what is used for measurement? gyro?
Tried this app out a few days ago. The measurements in it are surprisingly good. I was finding it about ~10% out at most. All in all, it is a very good (FREE!) app that can be used to get a decent idea of what might be needed in home renovation.
I had the opposite experience. It seemed really finicky about how smoothlyI had to move my tablet from one wall to the next .
Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
I don't think we're quite at the point where a mobile CPU would be able to pull this off, however filming and uploading a well shot video to a server for further processing should be a workable way to make a full model. I think a big challenge there is a several-minute feedback loop to learn if it worked and if you need to try it again.
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Btw, anyone who applied for Project Tango got back from them in any way? I didn't.
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I don't think we're quite at the point where a mobile CPU would be able to pull this off, however filming and uploading a well shot video to a server for further processing should be a workable way to make a full model. I think a big challenge there is a several-minute feedback loop to learn if it worked and if you need to try it again.
I built an Android app, Forge, that does just that. No feedback loop needed - the reconstruction is streamed back to you as you go: http://aboundlabs.com
Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
And your laser tape translates those measurements into a floorplan that's digitally sharable?
Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
And your laser tape translates those measurements into a floorplan that's digitally sharable?
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And your laser tape translates those measurements into a floorplan that's digitally sharable?
I wonder when the trend of "X, but shareable" ideas will stop.