Carvatar

A bespoke, state-of-the-art car scanning app built with 3D gaussian splatting
A car enthusiast using the Carvatar 3D scanning app

At a glance

State-of-the-art 3D Gaussian Scanning technology to serve the fast-growing, multi-billion dollar car enthusiast market.

End-to-end design, development and deployment of a mobile web app to scan cars in 3D.

TECHNOLOGIES

  • 3D Gaussian Splatting
  • CUDA
  • React
  • PlayCanvas

SERVICES

  • UI/UX design
  • App development
  • Backend development
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Fully functional, end-to-end MVP
  • Impressed early adopters and investors with differentiated technology
  • Achieved 100% seed investment round target

LLUME helped our startup impress investors, onboard early adopters, and secure 100% funding

JOEL BENTON

CEO, 3D Intermotive

The Vision

3D Intermotive's mission is to empower car enthusiasts to share and experience exotic, custom and rare cars through true-to-life, 3D digital representations - Carvatars. Offering the next best thing to a car meet huddle in real life.

They chose LLUME as their technology partners to design and develop an end-to-end MVP solution.

The Challenge

Carvatars are 3D representations of actual cars and therefore, incumbent 3D scanning techniques would not suffice. We knew that Gaussian Splatting would be perfect as it's fast and captures transparent and shiny surfaces particular well when compared with Photogrammetry, LiDAR and NeRFs.

  • Convert raw phone scan videos into high-fidelity 3D scenes
  • Make it mobile-first and intuitive for non-technical users
  • Clean up noisy scan data
  • Deliver something impressive - fast

As well as choosing the right technology for the backend processing, there was also a need to build an app to show early adopters and investors. Initially, 3D Intermotive sought to partner with a dedicated UI company, but having been our designs, opted for our complete, end-to-end, design and development services.

Going full-stack allowed us to build the product at breakneck speed. Within a week we had a working prototype and after we were showcasing the app to investors.

Our Solution

LLUME partnered with Carvatar to design and build a powerful MVP from the ground up. Our work included:

  • Mobile-first UI/UX - Designed an intuitive app to guide users through scanning and viewing
  • 3D backend pipeline - Built custom tools to convert videos into Gaussian Splatting 3D scenes
  • 3D viewer - Integrated, performant viewer to view Carvatars
  • Product strategy - Defined the product roadmap and technical vision
  • End-to-end documentation - Empowering 3D Intermotive for future development
  • Nvidia GPU processing - Accelerated processing by incorporating CUDA-enabled GPUs
  • Microsoft Azure infrastructure - Architected using highly scalable, affordable and widely available Azure services
The system design of the Carvatar solution
We designed and implemented the highly scalable backend system using industry standard components within the project's short timeframe

The Outcome

3D Intermotive used the MVP to garner strong interest from high-end car showrooms and secure 100% funding in their current investment round.

The technology we developed proved its value - and has become the foundation for the next iteration of product development.

LLUME will continue to support 3D Intermotive as they scale their team and expand product features.

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