MidlandsJS April - Visualising LIDAR data in a browser

Heads up! This is a remote meetup taking place over Zoom - Please RSVP for the URL.

This month we have a talk given by Ben Foxall, who works at Oxbotica where he helps build software to enable vehicles to drive themselves. He'll be talking to us about Visualising LIDAR data in a browser!

Here is a preview of what you can expect in this talk:
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.

We can't wait to see you all. Please RSVP and you'll get the Zoom link :)
The meetup will be recorded live and uploaded to our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsER6TPxEaNY3L3LJZs2K5A