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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 to 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 $30,000 laser scanner that they've invited us to go take a look at so we're walking there it's a crazy cool piece of kit that allows you to turn this into this and this video is brought to you by thermal take the therm will take core p90 tempered glass case features 5 millimeter thick glass and angled open frame design a bunch of different layout options with vertical GPU mounting with a riser cable included and more you can check it out at the link in the video description so this place is actually pretty cool the owner daniel has been a longtime viewer they've got a gigantic floor mat when you walk in that's like Excelsior and everyone from their book keeper all the way up to the folks working on 3d modeling or a graphic designer using custom hand-built workstations so it's a pretty cool vibe in this place anyway this is the blk 360 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 an I'm experienced at this sort of thing what is this costume 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 point cloud or something along those lines and this little sticker right here that I guess FLIR probably twisted like his 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 three hundred and sixty thousand data points per second as it whirs 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 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 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 of the way all right so let's take a bit of a closer look here well alright 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 oh I guess I'm gonna need that berry there we go it's got a battery compartment at the back 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 there's not a lot to it so here on the back they've got three fifteen 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 gonna spin around like this and then the whole unit is gonna spin around 360 degrees and it's gonna basically measure the distance between the blk 360 and all the objects around it 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 sixty 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 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 rangefinder 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 its IP 54 rated now it's not perfect it doesn't handle or this model anyway doesn't handle things like the inside of a cave very well so for mining applications they've got a more powerful model because it doesn't handle like blacks or dark blues or reflective surfaces but for their application it has proven to be very very useful but I'm not talking about it they've actually agreed to let us borrow it so we're gonna take this back to our office and get a 3d scan of the Lynas Media Group building ok so here we are in our set we're actually running a scan right now we're probably gonna have to discard this one because it's gonna have my face in it but don't don't worry too much about that basically what its gonna 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 its 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 lifelike whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho holy crap so this you guys is the bedroom set it goes all the way up to the ceiling - okay so Daniel's company uses this primarily for measuring like 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 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 this video is brought to you by fresh books fresh books is the 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