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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

• ArcGIS Reality Studio Ideas
• ArcGIS Reality Studio Questions

The image overlap ratio significantly impacts the quality of reality products. Optimal image overlap can minimize artifacts, such as data gaps and improve accuracy and sharpness. Additionally, it is closely linked to the performance, significantly influencing processing runtime. Therefore, this article provides recommendations for selecting the right image overlap to find a balance between quality and efficiency.

Boost your productivity in ArcGIS Reality Studio with the power of distributed processing. This article shows you how easy it is to get started. It only takes a few simple steps. Learn to create and manage workspaces, connect processing nodes, and submit jobs efficiently. Streamline your workflows and elevate your projects to new heights, making your work more efficient and impactful.

We are happy to announce the release of ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3.2, which brings several enhancements aimed at improving your user experience and project outcomes.

Same features, just better

Here’s a quick overview of the key updates you can look forward to:

• Finalization of Reconstructions: We have addressed an issue that previously prevented the finalization of reconstructions for large projects. Users can now complete their projects more efficiently without encountering this obstacle.
• Stability Improvements: An issue that caused the application to exit with an error when loading a project with the Image Measurement tool open has been fixed. This enhancement ensures a smoother workflow and reduces interruptions during your project work.
• Enhanced Orientation Data Handling: We have improved the handling of orientation data, which previously could lead to incorrect camera poses and shifted image footprints. This improvement ensures more accurate results in your projects, enhancing the reliability of your outputs.

Why Update?

Updating to the latest version not only resolves existing issues but also equips you with improved features that can significantly enhance your productivity and project quality. By adopting the latest tools and fixes, you ensure that you are leveraging the full potential of ArcGIS Reality Studio.

How to Update

Updating is simple!
ArcGIS Reality Studio is now available for download from My Esri.
You can also download it from the application itself by login in to ArcGIS Online, and accessing about ArcGIS Reality Studio from the Project tab.
Visit the help documentation for additional information about this patch release.

Stay Connected

Stay tuned for more updates and enhancements as we continue to evolve ArcGIS Reality Studio to meet your needs and exceed your expectations. Thank you for being part of our community!
Don't miss out on these enhancements! Update today and experience the benefits firsthand.
Happy mapping!

Whether you're involved in urban planning, environmental monitoring, or infrastructure management, optimizing your Reality Mapping workflow is crucial. This guide provides valuable tips on key considerations for collecting input data, regardless of the acquisition platform you use. Making informed decisions at this stage can significantly enhance image quality, which will be reflected in the final products.

We are excited to announce the release of a new patch for ArcGIS Reality Studio 2024.3, aimed at enhancing user experience and addressing key feedback from the initial release.

RAID technology has enabled the geospatial community to create workstations that not only have the processing power, but also the capability to store large volumes of imagery data when processing the data on single workstations.

The new distributed processing capability allows to combine the compute power of these workstations even more efficiently. This article describes some factors to consider when setting up such a processing environment, to ensure that data stored on the RAID drives can be accessed efficiently from all machines.

ArcGIS Reality Studio version 2024.3 has been released! This blog contains some highlights for what's new in this version.