demoConstruct: Democratizing Scene Construction for Digital Twins through Progressive Reconstruction

We introduce demoConstruct, an open-source project aimed at developing an accessible collaborative scene authoring tool for immersive applications, catering to both professional and untrained users. The tool employs progressive reconstruction, enabling simultaneous near real-time scene acquisition and editing tasks, including editing in Virtual Reality (VR). And, can be applied to multiple use cases, such as reconstructing disaster struck areas in near real-time for remote responders to plan and simulate operations. Participants will have the opportunity to experience an alpha version of demoConstruct, allowing them to construct their immersive environments during the lab. This experience aims to foster academic discourse and stimulate discussions to collectively advance this research area through an open-source initiative.