ArcGIS Reality Studio version 2025.1 has been released and is now available for users to download from My Esri. This blog contains some highlights of this version's new features. For a complete list of everything new or improved, please check What's New documentation page.
Key Features and Enhancements
Lidar Support
- Enhanced Reconstruction: Now you can leverage lidar data collected alongside aerial imagery. This improvement is particularly beneficial for challenging environments, such as dense urban areas with reflective buildings.
Editing and Export Capabilities
- Mesh Editing in the App: Edit 3D meshes directly within Reality Studio. Draw correction geometries to fix artifacts like incomplete building facades, enhancing the quality of your mesh products.
- External Mesh Editing: Use external editing software to refine your 3D meshes. Mark areas for updates, generate edit packages, and import them back into Reality Studio for reprocessing.
- Quality Control Geometries: A new geometry type allows you to track and manage areas affected by artifacts, ensuring high-quality outputs.
Mesh Export Capabilities
- Extended Export Tools: Export meshes in various formats, apply vertical shifts, utilize color lookup tables for texture correction and clip to a region of interest.
Alignment Enhancements
- Gallery View: Adjust the layout of the image measurement tool to view one, four, or nine images simultaneously for efficient measurement placement.
- Improved Quality Assurance: New metrics for evaluating alignment quality are now accessible through the QA tool and alignment reports.
Improved Quality Assurance - ArcGIS Reality Studio
- Distributed Image Optimization: Submit image optimization processes to a workspace for distribution, significantly reducing processing time.
Other Improvements
- Faster Reconstruction Updates: Experience improved processing speeds when updating reconstructions.
- Optimized Meshes: Generate meshes with better rendering performance for mobile, web, and AR/VR applications, while also reducing disk space usage.
- User Experience Enhancements: The process manager now groups processes based on their state, making it easier to monitor and manage your workflows.
Conclusion
With these exciting new features, ArcGIS Reality Studio 2025.1 empowers users to create high-quality 3D models more efficiently than ever before. Dive into the new capabilities and elevate your projects today!
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