Background

Digital twins empower industries and users with the capability to transform vast data into intuitive 3D visualisations. These 3D visualisations facilitate the simulation of production pipelines for areas such as smart manufacturing and, collaboratively strategize and coordinate disaster recovery operations for first-responders, amongst various other applications and use cases.

Constructing high-fidelity digital twins typically requires expertise and resources that are not easily accessible to the untrained consumer.

Some existing mobile applications can simplify the process of scanning physical objects to digitalise and create 3D assets, yet their practicality remains limited. These applications present a significant learning curve. After digitalising the physical object, users are often left to navigate the workflow on their own with complex 3D authoring software, making it a daunting and time-consuming process.

demoConstruct allows untrained users to build digital twin environments on lower-end computers and mobile devices, whether on a conventional monitor or in virtual reality (VR). With a connected system of simplified applications, demoConstruct also allows users to work individually or collaboratively with others.

Solution Overview

demoConstruct makes the collaborative creation of high-fidelity virtual scenes usable and accessible for untrained users, merging 3D reconstruction, object manipulation, and edge computing technologies.

This novel workflow democratizes the process, transferring the complexity of building 3D scenes from few specialized personnel to many untrained users. Consequently, it expands vast possibilities for different manufacturing roles to participate in this dynamic digital twin construction endeavour that will provide a constantly up-to-date persistent virtual workspace to enhance manufacturing processes.

Key Capabilities

Our progressive 3D reconstruction system offers several advantages over conventional 3D reconstruction systems:

• Accessibility: The system's compatibility with smartphones makes it widely accessible, enabling users to engage in 3D reconstruction without specialized equipment or expertise.

• Collaboration: The system is designed for collaborative reconstruction, allowing multiple users to work together in realtime, which is valuable for teamwork and knowledge sharing.

• Portability: Smartphones are highly portable, allowing on-site data capture and reconstruction. This is highly advantageous in fields like construction, archaeology, and emergency response.