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This veteran couldn’t share 3D scans of a burnt naval ship, so he created a startup that can


In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out onboard a naval ship docked in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS Bonhomme Richard burned as

Today’s leading cloud storage services — Google Drive, DropBox, iCloud, and OneDrive — don’t support the massive three dimensional files (sometimes, multiple terabytes in size) used with lidar technology. That’s what inspired U.S. Army veteran Clark Yuan to launch Stitch3D, a browser-based platform that lets you view, share, annotate, interact with, and manage your large 3D files. However, the U.S. military views lidar scans as critical in some situations, largely for preparing humans with accurate maps and equipment for a mission’s terrain.

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