Polycam vs Weka
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3D scanning app for mobile and web that captures LiDAR and photogrammetry scans generates meshes floor plans and measurements and exports to common 3D formats.
WEKA is a high-performance data platform for AI and HPC that unifies NVMe flash, cloud object storage, and parallel file access to feed GPUs at scale with enterprise controls.
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Key Features
- Photogrammetry: Build detailed meshes and textures from photo sets captured on phones or drones
- LiDAR capture: Use depth sensors on iOS to scan interiors with strong scale fidelity
- Measurements: Take scale aware measurements and generate floor plans in business tiers
- Web viewer: Share interactive models with links for client reviews and comments
- Formats: Export OBJ FBX GLTF and point clouds into DCC and BIM tools
- Collaboration: Organize projects invite reviewers and control permissions
- Parallel file system on NVMe for low-latency IO
- Hybrid tiering to object storage with policy control
- Kubernetes integration and scheduler friendliness
- High throughput to keep GPUs saturated
- Quotas snapshots and multi-tenant controls
- Encryption audit logs and SSO options
Use Cases
- Scan rooms and sites for quick as built references
- Create object models for product design and ecommerce
- Document excavation or heritage assets with photogrammetry
- Produce floor plans and measurements for real estate
- Share interactive models for remote client reviews
- Import into engines for AR VR previews and staging
- Feed multi-node training jobs with consistent throughput
- Consolidate research and production data under one namespace
- Tier datasets to object storage while keeping hot shards local
- Support MLOps pipelines that read and write at scale
- Accelerate EDA and simulation with parallel IO
- Serve inference features with predictable latency
Perfect For
architects surveyors real estate pros construction teams archaeologists product designers educators and creators who need fast accurate capture to 3D
infra architects, platform engineers, and research leads who need to maximize GPU utilization and simplify AI data operations with enterprise controls
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