it's amazing when you take a moment to look around how much technology is all
around us I mean they're building Quantum Computing chips two
municipalities away in Burnaby and down
the street from our office seriously it's so close that we could hit it with
a potato cannon Excelsior measuring has
got a thirty thousand dollar laser
scanner that they've invited us to go take a look at so uh
we're walking there it's a crazy cool piece of kit that allows you to turn
this into this
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foreign so this place is actually pretty cool the owner Daniel has been a long
time viewer they've got a gigantic floor mat when you walk in that's like
Excelsior and everyone from their
bookkeeper all the way up to the folks working on 3D modeling or graphic design
or using custom hand-built workstations so it's a pretty cool vibe in this place
anyway this is the BLK
360. wow and I've been asked very nicely
by the owner here not to drop it I see
my reputation has preceded me somewhat but don't worry don't worry I'm I'm
experienced at this sort of thing what does this cost to get 30 grand anyway so
this puppy right here will do three
separate types of skins all simultaneously it does photo it does 3D
with what's called a a point cloud or
something along those lines and this little sticker right here that I guess
Fleer probably Twisted leica's ARM to include on it it also does thermal
scanning at the same time so it'll
actually record depending on the quality of the scan that you're going for
anywhere from a hundred thousand to 360
000 data points per second as it Spurs
around and spins around whether it's a room or or outdoor or whatever it is
that you're trying to scan in terms of of accessories I don't often get to
unbox things that cost this much you get a car adapter
so you on your way to a site you know if you're driving up to Kamloops or
something you can have it charging up you get uh a battery
you get a wall charger with
International adapters and finally
a battery charger
for the wall charger so you can charge
the batteries wow okay give me a second I gotta get all this stuff out of the
way all right so uh let's take a bit of
a closer look here oh
all right there we go
so that's it that's all there is to it it's got like
a blasted aluminum housing it's got uh
oh I guess I'm gonna need that battery there we go it's got a battery
compartment at the back
look at that smooth action on the door that that is what thirty thousand
dollars buys you and then you got your power button on the front and man
there's not a lot to it so here on the back they've got three 15 megapixel
cameras and what those do is they take the photographic image of the site so
they will actually create a 150 megapixel Dome around the location
where the camera is set up so the doodad in the middle is going to spin around
like this and then the whole unit is going to spin around 360 degrees and
it's going to basically measure the distance between the BLK 360 and all the
objects surrounded as as Point data and then that will all have to be assembled
after the fact now it can hold something to the tune of a hundred scans on its
built-in memory and the accuracy of this so out to about 60 meters is within four
millimeters so there are quite a few applications of this technology but what
Excelsior measuring does with it is they get scans of the outsides of buildings
because a lot of the time if you want to uh let's say put an addition on a house
or if you want to change something about a commercial construction project what
you have to do is you have to submit to the city and as built measurement of the
building it's not good enough to send blueprints because they might not have
been adhered to perfectly so in the old days you would have to take like a like
a pocket laser range finder and just
kind of sort of math everything based on angles
this you just plunk it down in the parking lot
press run and it gets you all of the
measurements to within that four millimeter accuracy I was talking about and it can actually even run out in sort
of a light mist it's ip54 rated now it's
not perfect it doesn't handle or this model anyway doesn't handle things like
the inside of a k very well so for mining applications they've got a more
powerful model because it doesn't handle like blacks or or dark blues or
reflective surfaces but for their application it has proven to be very
very useful but enough talking about it
they've actually agreed to let us borrow it so we're going to take this back to
our office and get a 3D scan of the Linus Media Group building okay so here
we are in our set we're actually running a scan right now we're probably going to
have to discard this one because it's going to have my face in it but don't don't worry too much about that
basically what it's going to take is about six placements here in our our
apartment set slash studio for us to
build such an accurate digital representation of it that anyone who had
the file could go and create a real life
Recreation of this studio like that
I mean it's construction so there's like permits and stuff but but like like a
slow okay so now we're running the last scan
and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna send all of this point cloud data
back with Daniel to his company they're gonna process it and we're gonna go
check out the results tomorrow okay so
normally they have a week to do this kind of stuff so we're gonna go a little
bit easy on them but we are back in the office and Daniel's got a 3D scan of our
studio that we can actually just what like fly through whoa
holy crap
so this you guys is the bedroom set it
goes all the way up to the ceiling too okay so Daniel's company uses this
primarily for measuring like uh surveying a construction project as we
mentioned before but this Tech has actually been known to be used in the
production industry as well so what they could do is they could take a space or
in our case a set or a location and then
they could import this information because this is all just just just like
a point Cloud they can take all this information and they can create a model
in 3ds Max or Maya and then what they
could actually do is they could build up a set including lighting locations and
see once they've rendered it out using obviously quite powerful Hardware
what exactly it would look like in real
life so it's super cool stuff that these guys are doing here at Excelsior
measuring they're not like a sponsor for the video or anything they're just a
local company that was literally down the street that had a fun toy to play
with that ended up being actually even
cooler than I expected so hopefully you
guys enjoyed coming along for the ride
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