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Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades. I’ve been doing it fairly regularly for about 10 years now, first in Boston and then in NYC.
You can quickly stop and soak in a detail, change direction, occupy a tight space, or fly downhill in a long straight line. I think about devices like this as “weird cameras” - imperfect leaky imaging systems that don’t faithfully reproduce a precise representation of what they are pointed at. So while using it I just needed to hold the helmet, check that I see some planes being detected in the camera image so I know the tracking is working, hit the capture button, and then put it on my head and go!
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