Reality capture is changing fast. Alex Okscin, reality capture product manager at Trimble, joins us again to share his take on how AI is shifting the industry from manual processing to automated insights. Alex explains how machine learning helps users train custom classes to find objects within point clouds and why historical 3D data provides value even long after a building is constructed. The conversation also covers cutting-edge visualization technologies like NeRFs and Gaussian Splats.

0:00 – Intro

1:19 – Where AI lives in the ecosystem: hardware vs. software

2:13 – Intelligent feature extraction

4:15 – The challenge of global variations in object recognition

6:31 – Making reality capture data accessible to non-experts

9:08 – Lifecycle management: from construction to building operations

11:33 – Leveraging historical scan data for repeat business

13:42 – Future technologies: NeRFs and Gaussian Splats

16:32 – The role of AR, VR, and MR in visualization

18:48 – The future possibility of talking to your data