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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by xchaotic on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:52PM (#13583230)
Aaccurate 3-d scanning of 3d environments - houses, mines you name it. I think the tech is there in your pocket and with good software plus very accurate measurement of location, orientation + panorama/spehrical photo shoots, you could have very high quality recreations of real world areas - which in turn could be explored, modified and enjoyed in VR/AR/MR. For example simulating house refurbishment or furniture purchases, remotely inspecting places to buy/rent/go on holiday.

The tech is mostly there, but I'm too lazy to put it altogether as I know that someone with access to more capital will also attack it, sooner or later, not just startup but IKEA, Airbnb, etc...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by loader on Monday February 06, 2017 @03:05PM (#13583335)
BBC's Italy's Invisible Cities used 3D scanning to showcase areas in three Italian cities (Naples, Venice, and Florence). Seeing things mapped in 3D made a world of a difference trying to understand those spaces. It was a great show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0881gfb

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by saurabhn on Monday February 06, 2017 @03:36PM (#13583614)
This is a super interesting topic to work on! There's an academic initiative which does exactly this, it's called the Digital Historical Architectural Research and Material Analysis or DHARMA [0] for short (it's at the University of Notre Dame). Figuro3D [1] is a startup (also out of Notre Dame) which borrows a lot from DHARMA and applies it to 3D printing.

[0]: http://architecture.nd.edu/research-publications/dharma/

[1]: http://www.figuro3d.com/

Edit: formatting

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Re:Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for star... by jpm_sd on Monday February 06, 2017 @05:32PM (#13584919)
Plenty of people working on this: [0] https://matterport.com/ [1] https://structure.io/ [2] https://www.paracosm.io/
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