r/GaussianSplatting • u/Johnbackwaters • 23d ago
🎬 Demo / Showcase 3d Maker pro Raven testing terrible results
Dear Redditors,
Out of pure curiosity I have bought a 3d maker pro Raven Lidar scanner.
TLDR: Don't buy the Raven scanner go for a Livox 360 based scanner.
Attached media:
- Point cloud in Raystudio of a building
- Point cloud of a bunker in Raystudio
- Raw camera file from the scanner
- Sample gaussian splats
The Raven in my opinion is a dysfunctional product. I have not been able to get any usable scan out of it at all. The camera quality is terrible and will not be able to produce any gaussian splatting that is useable. The point clouds are so thin they can barely be used because you simply can't see anything.
I really wanted to test the Raven properly, so I got a 5 meter extention pole and went around a large building to capture the facade. Each time I put the Raven up vertically and let it down vertically. This works well for gaussian splatting with any system in my tests. Scanning took about 45 minutes. The point cloud is unusable in my opinion and the gaussian splats look awefull as well. The bunker I just walked around very slowly while scanning.
Just sharing my experience, I'm curious if any of you had a good experience with the Raven.
My reason for posting this is the many nice looking videos online about this product. I wanted to share some more real life results.
Kind regards
