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Point Clouds#

Point Clouds are widely used in industry and can be very large, which places huge demands on rendering quality and interactive exploration of the generated visualizations. Point Clouds give digital twins highly accurate, up‑to‑date 3D snapshots of real assets or sites, which improves design, clash detection, and operations decisions throughout the project lifecycle. The Point Cloud Extensions address this by enabling real-time, remote streaming of these large datasets, which improves design, clash detection, and operations through a shared, live 3D reality. Developers of Point Cloud solutions can take advantage of these powerful extensions to unlock new collaborative workflow in their software. With these capabilities, they might, for example, enable their users to visualize extremely large Point Clouds datasets remotely and in real time.

Point Clouds Overview

Using Point Cloud Extensions#

Point Cloud functionality is packaged as a bundle of extensions that are designed to work together. To support developers in customizing their Point Cloud workflows, these extensions provide APIs.

Core Extensions#

The Point Cloud Streaming Bundle includes the following extensions:

  • omni.pointcloud.streaming.bundle — Bundles all Point Cloud extensions together in a single dependency.

  • omni.pointcloud.potree2 — Provides access to NavVis IVION servers (authentication, listing contents, and exposing Potree2 data).

  • omni.pointcloud.streaming.potree — Streams Potree2 data from NavVis IVION servers to the RTX renderer.

  • omni.pointcloud.content_browser — Shows NavVis IVION server contents inside the Content Browser window.

  • omni.pointcloud.ui — Provides the UI configuration dialog and status overlay.