Storied camera manufacturer Leica now sells $20,000 photogrammetric cameras that have up to 360,000 “laser scan set points per second,” and that are designed to capture entire malls, buildings, and homes with greater clarity and detail than the average person would ever see if they were physically on-site. Epic Games’ Quixel, meanwhile, uses proprietary cameras to generate environmental “MegaScans” comprising tens of billions of pixel-precise triangles.
