Ben Foxall - Visualising LIDAR data in the browser

From Ben:

LIDAR sensors use a laser to rapidly scan an area, allowing you to accurately map a 3d environment in real-time. I'll focus on a sensor commonly used by autonomous vehicles, showing how it works and what kind of data we can expect it to provide.

We’ll load this data in a web browser, and tour of the platform features that make this possible. I'll show how web streams and binary manipulation can be used to quickly access larger files. And how we can structure frontend components to handle highly dynamic datasets.

Moving on to visualisation, we'll use webGL to render this data, and WebXR to naturally transition into virtual & augmented interactions with it.

Ben works at Oxbotica (https://www.oxbotica.com/) and you can see what he's up to on Twitter (https://twitter.com/benjaminbenben) and his website (https://benjaminbenben.com).