Comment by markisus
1 day ago
The application has this feature and lets you switch back and forth. What you are talking about is the standard pointcloud rendering algorithm. I have an older video where I display the corresponding pointcloud [1] in a small picture in picture frame so you can compare.
I actually started with pointclouds for my VR teleoperation system but I hated how ugly it looked. You end up seeing through objects and objects becoming unparseable if you get too close. Textures present in the RGB frame also become very hard to make out because everything becomes "pointilized". In the linked video you can make out the wood grain direction in the splat rendering, but not in the pointcloud rendering.
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