Probably one of the most beautiful videos [link no longer available] I’ve seen in recent memory, made all the more memorable by a conspicuous lack of traditional equipment.
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
On top of all this, Google open sourced the data and Processing code [link no longer available] used to generate it. Spectacular work, chaps (Aaron, Google and Radiohead). via overstated / elatable