High-end Photogrammetry
World-class photogrammetry professional Paul Safko has specialized in scanning important cultural heritage sites at sub-millimeter detail. We worked with Paul on an exclusive project: to create a digital twin of an entire salon room in a palace in the Czech Republic - paintings and baroque furniture and all - at 0.125mm resolution in a single World.
Photogrammetry output can't be shared without discarding data
Undecimated photogrammetry is hugely detailed and heavy, and it runs straight into the hard limits of conventional 3D tech: at most tens of millions of triangles. Paul's raw cultural heritage scans often carry a hundred times that. The decimation required just to view them defeats most of the work of capturing the site in the first place.
Entire captured sites, conveyed without compromise
With Virtual Matter's progressive streaming and efficient client-side rendering on common devices, there are no hard limits on the geometric size and detail of a culturally important reality capture. Whole sites - every scanned detail intact - can be preserved and shared through a URL without losing any sub-millimeter geometry or color.
From capture to living World
Professional photogrammetry capture
High-end photogrammetry is a painstaking process of taking thousands of overlapping DSLR and drone photos.
The photogrammetry software processing
Using existing software such as RealityCapture, the many photos are turned into a 3D reconstruction of the scene or object.
Uploading ALL the data
The undecimated output exported from photogrammetry workflows is uploaded to our backend and processed.
Assemble many datasets into a single World; edit with intuitive tools
Heavy scans can be interactively arranged and improved with tools to remove artefacts and repair holes.
Share the finished World with a URL
The whole World can be shared with anyone in the world, dropping them at a chosen vantage point inside it.
View every captured detail on any device
Seconds after clicking the link, viewers can experience it all interactively - in their browser, phone or mobile VR.
Experience it now
See the result the way anyone you share a link with will.
"Presenting ultra-large, highly detailed cultural heritage 3D scans that are as true to the real object as possible has always been a technical challenge - until now. Clients can finally move around a rich 3D scene without first heavily downscaling the scan. All that compromise is simply not necessary anymore."
Upload your heaviest data - for free
Other use cases
Karolinska Institute - the Human Protein Atlas
Researchers mapping every protein in the human body share full-resolution iDISCO+ light-sheet stacks - no cropping, no downsampling.
Brett Eldridge - underwater wreck scans
Technical diver Brett Eldridge scans deep wrecks with thousands of photos. Multiple of his hugely detailed scans can now be viewed in a browser, on a phone, or in mobile XR - without compromising on size or detail.