Rendering pointclouds

Collecting google research on solutions for realtime rendering point clouds.

Euclidean- 

https://www.euclideon.com/solidscan/

https://www.euclideon.com/vaultinfo/

No longer advertising game engine solutions, instead has two products that are aimed a more general scanning audience. The "Unlimited Detail" render engine is now a listed as a feature within these software solutions. I've download trials of both and will be poking around.

Atom View

http://nurulize.com/atom-view/

Another engine like Euclidean that uses 'atoms', has beautiful demos but at the moment only advertises a private beta. This article does a comparison study.

Potree for WebGL

http://www.potree.org/

Interesting optimizing for web browser, might be useful elsewhere.

PCX for Unity

https://github.com/keijiro/Pcx

Looks promising, will also install and try out.

Point Cloud Plugin for Unreal
https://pointcloudplugin.com/
Straight to the point. 

GigaVoxels for CUDA/GLSL

http://gigavoxels.inrialpes.fr/WhatIsGigaVoxels.html

I probably won't use this, but is interesting to read about.

Faro VR Generator for Oculus

http://farowebliveserver.cloudapp.net/faro-3d-app-center/stand-alone-apps/faro-vr-generator

Third party tool to bring pointclouds into VR. Pretty stunning results.

This week I'm asking: are points better than polys? Are points fundamentally different from verts, voxels, sprites, "atoms"? And ultimately, how big is TOO big for massive pointcloud datasets in realtime?

And on a tangent, Maya 2019 has just been released with some Very Exciting updates to their viewport. Everything's going realtime nerds!

Edit (1/31) Some more links
https://www.atomontage.com/
https://medium.com/@EightyLevel/how-voxels-became-the-next-big-thing-4eb9665cd13a