New World Notes: Watch: Capture Real World Locations With Your Smartphone & Turn Them Into LEGO-Like Virtual Worlds With New SDK

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Watch: Capture Real World Locations With Your Smartphone & Turn Them Into LEGO-Like Virtual Worlds With New SDK

Some cool videos from our creative teams building with https://t.co/Ob4co4nbsh. Who doesn't love turning a normal sidewalk into a lego land? #arcloud #mirrorworld #everythingisawesome pic.twitter.com/4Yhx6mtbt1
— 6D.ai (@6d_ai) October 14, 2019

Remember 6D.AI, the startup that's creating a 3D mirror world of real life from the input of standard smartphones? The company recently released its SDK, and it makes what you see above possible: Scan a real world location into a 1:1 scale 3D model... then turn into a LEGO-like virtual world.

"It’s all built on our SDK," 6D CEO Matt Miesnieks tells me. "Instead of mesh triangles we draw LEGO blocks." These blocks are the only texture available in the SDK, he adds, but users can create and add their own textures -- opening up incredible opportunities.

6D AI AR volumetric mirror world

With that functionality, we're not just talking about creating a mirror world, or an alternate mirror world made of LEGO-like bricks, but, endless varieties of mirror worlds -- say, a mirror world where reality looks like Minecraft, or a classic Nintendo game, or a Van Gogh painting, or... you tell me.

Here's how real world locations are captured, by the way:

Read: Real World Location Virtually Recreated To Scale In Minutes.

Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 12:49 PM in Augmented Reality, New World Tech | Permalink

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Very very cool. I want to download the software !

Posted by: Frank | Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 02:53 PM

Link to the SDK is in the first paragraph!

Posted by: Wagner James Au | Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 09:53 PM

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