FARO Technologies, Inc.
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIEWING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL POINT CLOUD

Abstract:

A system and method for generating and viewing a virtual reality scene from scanned point cloud data having user defined content is provided. A method of viewing point cloud data with user defined content in a virtual reality device includes measuring three-dimensional coordinate data by scanning an environment using a coordinate measurement device. A point cloud data is generated based at least in part on the three-dimensional coordinate data. A user defined content is selected. An area in the point cloud data is selected for the user defined content. The user defined content is inserted into the area of the point cloud data. A virtual reality data file is generated from the point cloud data with the user defined content. The virtual reality data file is transmitted to the virtual reality device.