Meta Quest 3 now features an app called Into the Scaniverse, developed by Niantic, enabling users to explore 3D scans of various objects, from sculptures to rock formations. This innovative app builds upon an earlier smartphone version, encouraging users to create and share detailed images of public scenes. With over 50,000 3D scenes already included, users can navigate the world virtually, using a hot air balloon interface to view scans in stereo 3D vision. Niantic's goal is to motivate users to actively participate in generating high-quality scans of their surroundings.
"Our goal is really to get a large collection of high-quality scans that folks can visit around the world," says Brian McClendon, senior vice president of engineering at Niantic.
"This allows you to experiment with locations and try things out, and once you have what you like, you can then choose to publish to the map or not."
"You can walk up to it and look up at it, and you get a sense of scale of these objects that sometimes photos don't do justice."
"Making the scans available through virtual reality will hopefully also incentivize more users to go out and scan and share the world around them."
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