The Future of 3D Point Clouds: a new perspective

Discrete spatial datasets known as point clouds often lay the groundwork for decision-making applications. But can they become the next big thing?

Different renderings of a point cloud. From left to right, raw point cloud, shaded, colored, voxelized, semantized

I am a big point cloud enthusiast. I first discovered their existence 10 years ago, and since then, I have been tweaking my practices…