10.5.23-Showcase-Tokyo-Stitch3D

CLARK YUAN: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Clark, and I'm the founder and CEO of Stitch3D. At Stitch3D, our vision is to democratize access to 3D data around the world. And we are doing this by building the most user-friendly web-based 3D data management platform that allows users to store, search, visualize, analyze, and easily share 3D content directly on the web.

You see, at this very moment there is a unique opportunity to rapidly drive the adoption rate of 3D data across many industries, due to two driving primary factors. The first factor is the fact that 3D technologies are significantly coming down in cost. So technologies such as LiDAR and photogrammetry are now increasingly accessible for commercial use cases.

We're seeing this-- the spread of 3D data usage across industries such as construction and utilities, where companies are using 3D data to unlock potential new business opportunities, and also in emerging industries such as 3D printing, augmented reality, and robotics, where those industry players are also consuming reams of 3D data. Similar to the explosion of digital photography, with the advancement of smartphone cameras, we believe that 3D data is about to experience its own Cambrian moment, with increasingly accessible 3D technologies and sensors.

The second factor is, unfortunately, a challenge that the industry is currently facing. And that is currently, not a single cloud data storage solution allows users to actually see the 3D data, much less be able to access, analyze, and map it. This is putting a cap on the adoption rate of 3D technologies because everything currently is happening through a desktop workflow.

The challenge is exacerbated when you consider that there are literally hundreds of 3D file formats currently out there, which only increases the complexities and interoperability challenges of working with 3D. Stitch3D is looking to help users move past these hurdles by building a cloud-based solution that allows users to not only be able to see the data but be able to collaborate by using our in-house 3D viewer and analytical tools. What does our solution look like? Well, you can kind of consider it to be a hybrid of Dropbox and Figma, where users can not only store and upload 3D data, they can also use our in-house reviewer and analytical tools to encourage collaboration across teams.

So let's take a look at what the solution looks like. So like I mentioned, this is a cloud solution, a SaaS product. So you can log in from any browser on any device, including your mobile app.

Once you log in, it's very similar to Dropbox. You can access and upload 3D file formats of any type. And unlike Dropbox, where you won't be able to actually see the files, you can use Stitch3D to not only see the files but be able to take measurements, such as distance of a road, the height of a building, the slope angle of a hill, and also be able to do things like measure volume and area, such as getting the area measurements for this parking lot.

What you're seeing here is also a point cloud data that has been georeferenced by a drone. So what you can do with the georeferenced data on Stitch3D is map it to a satellite or a street map. And this encourages collaboration because now you have additional contextuality around where this data was collected.

How this is being used in the architecture and construction industry is looking at digital twins. Now, this is a digital twin of a high school that we scanned for law enforcement in Massachusetts. And the reason why law enforcement was interested in digital twins is because unfortunately in America, active shooter events are a very real challenge that police officers deal with. And when they arrive on site, they have no idea the length of a hallway or where Mrs. William's biology class is.

So if schools can pre-annotate a digital twin and then use Stitch3D to share that data with police officers before they arrive on site, they'll be able to quickly gain situational awareness and respond much faster. So you can label the cafeteria, save it as a Canvas, and then either use a web link, which you can text over just normal text or share an email invite for police officers to gain that situational awareness. To show you what that looks like, this is the pre-annotated digital twin of the same high school. And you can quickly Zoom around, going from the gym to the cafeteria to the computer lab, be able to see the dimensions of the hallway and the square footage of the gym, if you're looking at casualty collection points.

So that's for law enforcement. But similar use cases exist for architecture and construction, where if you're looking at a renovation project and you need to know where a utility or a water pipeline was, you can pre-annotate and get a fully measured-out 3D digital model of what that building looks like. And this is something that the architecture and construction engineering industries are moving towards in pretty quick-- a pretty rapid manner.

The last thing I'll show you here is what we're building for iPhone LiDAR data management and collection. So thanks to Apple, now you have LiDAR sensors on your iPhone Pro. So you can actually collect 3D point clouds directly from your phone. So if you're involved in a traffic accident or, again, going back to the law enforcement use case, a crime scene, instead of taking hundreds of photographs and doing hand sketches, you can actually now just take out your phone and do a 3D scan, have it fully measured out, and then share that with prosecutors or insurance companies or whoever needs that access to the data.

One of the use cases that we've also been working on is with researchers from Oregon State University. The researchers have been collecting erosion data along the Pacific Coast Highway to share that data with communities that will be most impacted by climate change. Unfortunately, because they did not have a cloud solution to share the data, it was very hard to actually convey the importance and the significance of this erosion data when you're just sharing a 2D PDF or photographs of what you're looking at.

We worked with the researchers and gave them access to Stitch3D. So they were able to map that data to a satellite imagery map, be able to show and demonstrate the change of the slopes, the length of the highways, and share that in an embedded web link on, like, a LinkedIn article or a Facebook post to really encourage interactions amongst the community. So that's another use case.

What we hope to accomplish in Japan is to, again, increase the rate of 3D data adoption across multiple industries in this country. Currently, the science and technology innovation plan for up until 2025 focuses on three main areas. And that's collaborative data, disaster prevention, and smart cities.

We believe 3D data has a role to play in all three of these areas. And we hope to help the service providers who are currently going out and collecting 3D data on drones or on terrestrial LiDAR scanners to give them a better way of sharing that data with their clients and with other third-party interested stakeholders. We're looking for partners who would be interested in [INAUDIBLE] technologies and even explore potential joint R&D opportunities. So if you would like to learn more about Stitch3D and how 3D data can help your company or your industry, please speak with me and see me at the booth. Thank you so much for your time.

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