10.3.23-Showcase-Osaka-Stitch3D

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

You see at this moment there is a unique opportunity in the market to rapidly capture huge quantities of 3D data, due to two primary driving factors. The first factor is the decreasing cost in 3D sensors such as LiDAR and photogrammetry to be able to assist in industries such as construction and utilities, in using 3D data to advance business workflows and capture new market opportunities.

You're also seeing emerging industries, such as 3D printing, augmented reality, robotics, computer vision, use 3D data to drive their workflows and consuming reams of 3D data currently. And all of this is being enabled by the decreasing cost of LiDAR sensors. In fact, if you have an iPhone Pro, from version 12 and beyond you actually have a LiDAR sensor on your phone right now that can allow you to capture 3D data directly from your phone.

The second factor, however, is that currently not a single cloud data management platform allows you to do really anything with 3D data other than use it as a vehicle for storage. Solutions such as Dropbox and Google Drive one drive cannot view 3D data, much less analyze or map it. And this is compounded and exacerbated by the fact, when you consider that there are literally hundreds of 3D file formats out there, each with their own interoperability challenges.

Stitch3D is building a cloud-based data management platform that allows you to bypass these challenges. You can use our platforms to not only share 3D data, but be able to view it, analyze the data, and create your own markups, and get over and get past this challenge, thereby helping to democratize the usefulness of 3D data. So what does our platform look like?

Well, you can kind of consider it as a hybrid between a Dropbox plus a Figma-esque kind of solution. It's completely built on the cloud. We have an iOS app currently that allows you to capture 3D data directly from your phone and upload it seamlessly to the web. And then once you have it on the web, you can create your markups and share with anyone as well.

So let's take a quick look at the use case here, that we worked on with researchers from Oregon State University. The researchers and scientists at Oregon State University were working with the Oregon Department of Transportation to map erosion data along the Pacific Coast Highway. Specifically they had captured hundreds of miles of 3D data using a LiDAR sensor from a drone. But the challenge that they ran into is that they couldn't have an easy way of sharing this data with the government stakeholders or with the public to

They had collected terabytes of data. All of it was sitting on external hard drives and none of it was being shared over the cloud. More importantly, they didn't have a way to really analyze this with their clients as well. They couldn't map it. They couldn't measure the slope of the hills, the rate of erosion, the length of the highways.

So they needed something like Stitch3D to assist them with their work. When we reach out to them and show them what we can do with Stitch3D, that's actually a live or an actual point cloud data set collected from a drone of a section of the Pacific Coast Highway, mapped to a satellite map. You can also map it to a street map on Stitch3D. That allows them to calculate the slope, angle measurements, and also the height of the hill.

And this is exactly what they needed to do to be able to expand the data into storytelling and tell the communities that were impacted by erosion along the Pacific Coast Highway. When we think about Japan, our goal is to help usher in 3D data for industries across the country that are currently engaged with 3D data. Japan's current science and technology innovation plan for fiscal year '21 through 2025 focuses on three main areas, and that's collaborative data, disaster prevention, and smart cities.

We believe 3D data can greatly assist with all three of these focus areas. And we're looking to penetrate and help the service industry first by being able to capture 3D data and share that data with construction companies, utility companies, environmental engineering companies, and such. So these are our industries that we're currently looking at partnering with.

If you know of folks in the construction or energy and utility companies, 3D printing, or augmented reality, please reach out to us. We're looking for pilot partners as well as potentially joint R&D partners as well. But thanks so much for your time today. And you can visit me at my booth to learn a little bit more about 3D data. Thank you.