The Democratization of 3D Capturing: An Application Investigating Google Tango Potentials

The appearance of 3D scanners and then, more recently, of image-based systems that generate point clouds directly from common digital images have deeply affected the survey process in terms of both capturing and 2D/3D modelling. In this context, low cost and mobile systems are increasingly playing a key role and actually paving the way to the democratization of what in the past was the realm of few specialized technicians and expensive equipment. The application of Google Tango on the ancient church of Santa Maria delle Vigne in Pratica di Mare – Rome presented in this paper is one of these examples.

• Carlo Bianchini
• Lorenzo Catena

• Architectural survey
• augmented/mixed/virtual reality
• Google Tango project
• image-based 3D capturing.

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