I don’t have much experience with 3D scanning recently.
However, I have been in the 3D data field for more than 10 years, and I worked as a researcher in a car company 15 years ago doing measurement work.
Recently, I have been interested in personal scanners again after using competitor’s Raptor and Otter scanners, and I have a great interest in Revopoint and funded MatroX.
However, my experience after testing it for a week is quite terrible.
Of course, please understand that this is my first time using Revopoint products. This product is confusing me in many ways, and I am gradually getting used to Revopoint products.
This is the environment I used and tested. Almost similar problems occur in both environments.
- Macbook Pro 14, M3 Max, 32 GB ram.
- AMD Ryzen 7700, RTX 4070 SUPER PC, 64 GB ram.
Today, I’m going to show you the problem I’m experiencing in feature tracking mode.
I expected feature tracking to be a function that can be used easily without a marker if it’s done properly, but the result is quite miserable.
If you’re bored while using it, tracking loss occurs.
Of course, in my previous article, I saw that you can use the fusion function in the post-processing work, but it’s quite unfortunate that tracking loss occurs easily even in situations where you don’t move much.
Among the problems I’ve experienced, there’s a big problem where the tracking is lost and copied in the same direction in a low-priced scanner under 200 USD from a third-party product. This part seems to be a problem with the included USB A OTG, so I’m still testing it. I’ll share it with you when I confirm it more in the future.
So I looked for a special operation method for feature tracking, but I couldn’t find any special explanation on the homepage, the included manual, or YouTube videos, and it seems that it just says that it works well.
I think this could be seen as false advertising in some cases. I hope that I just received a defective product or that the OTG or cable is defective as mentioned above.
Also, the marker function seems to work relatively well, and those who are familiar with the existing Revopoint products will not have any problems, but for users like me who expected a more convenient scanner (like other companies’ products), it seems that they will be disappointed or have many errors when using it.
The angle for recognizing the marker seems to be quite narrow (if it is smaller than about 70 degrees, it seems that it is not recognized properly.) Therefore, it seems that proper scanning is possible only after measuring from various angles and combining them so that the marker is recognized almost vertically.
Personally, since I have high expectations for the Revopoint product, I hope that it will be improved through a software update based on the posts I saw on the forum. Or, if the problems I am experiencing are hardware problems, I wonder if there are other reports of similar problems.
If a Revopoint official reads this post, I would appreciate it if you could answer the following.
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Is it normal for the feature tracking function to have tracking loss? If so, please tell me specifically how to use it without failure.
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If my case seems to be a hardware defect or other cable issue, please let me know how I can test it.
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Please answer whether the difficulties I am experiencing can be resolved through software updates.
I wrote a long article for users who are frustrated from the beginning because of the same problem as me. I hope it helps.
