Dev log #15
Another 2 months go by! Read about our work on our first excursion, studio scans, our new community project, USD support, Epic's Fab platform, and search stats.
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One question I have—do you guys keep the source material for your scanned assets after the assets are made? Just something I've been thinking about with all the progress happening in AI-based novel view synthesis recently (has been like 2/3 new radiance field papers being published every week). In the near future (next ~5 years?), I wouldn't be surprised if traditional photoscanning and structure-from-motion get some serious upgrades, at which point it could be really neat to be able to return to your old assets and reprocess them with updated techniques!
Hey Kai, for the most part yes, though in reality I would be quite surprised if we ever decided to revisit *all* our old assets. Doing anything (even small tasks) to 1000+ things takes a very long time. And most of the hard work is not in the photogrammetry side, but everything that comes after that. I am also looking forward to seeing some NeRF/SFM tech inside of Reality Capture though! Maybe then we won't have to be so anal about getting perfect source data and can work more loosely and quickly.