According to the announcement, Acute3D’s Smart3DCapture is a software solution enabling data providers and distributors to easily produce true-3D models of cities from aerial and terrestrial imagery, ...

Needles to say, the creation of these 3D city models didn’t just happen overnight, and HERE says it used a full arsenal of new-gen tech to make it happen. LiDAR, optical, ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a technology platform with which they can create 3D city models using image data alone. The platform, known as "VarCity", is so versatile that it can use, ...

How are cities using 3D models? Local government and the private sector are increasingly using 3D city models to assist planning. An example is Virtual Brisbane.

New technologies offer new possibilities for planning and designing cities. 3D urban modelling and simulation can give a real sense of the outcomes of planning decisions. However, incorporating ...

With the beta service featuring 20 metropolitan areas, the number of photorealistic 3D models will increase over time. The road-level imagery is now available for five cities, Copenhagen, Helsinki ...

Snavely has pulled a number of tricks since his initial PhD work in the mid-aughts, from 3D visualizations of the Statue of Liberty based solely on tourist's photos to a point cloud realization of ...

With a mouse-click, Morelle pulled up a 3D model of Boston as an example to show how commanders or small unit leaders can plan routes within the city and mark known enemy positions.

Stability AI, the startup behind the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion, thinks 3D model creation tools could be the next big thing in generative AI.. At least, that’s the message it’s ...