One of the technology implementations displayed at SDC 2018 was their HOLOLAB. Curious as to what it is I walked over. It was a rig for performing 3D scanning of subjects. A few of the tangible outcomes included some pretty elastic 3D printed statues of people, a volume metric display showing a subject, and a display showing one of the scanned subjects dancing.

I was more curious about the implementation. I got a picture peering into the space to see how the physical structure was built. Inside the space the ambient lighting was ramped up by way of LEDs distributed around the space and 52 Point Grey Research cameras, all mounted to various places on an 8020 rig.

The software is custom built. I asked of its commercial availability and the Samsung rep I spoke to told me, “it was a work in progress.” The rep indicated that they are planning to have some popup locations available in the future for more people to try it and receive a copy of their models.

It is still early in the conference, but I might take a moment to try it out myself.