The Manifest

Essays and field notes from the Volustor team on 3D scanning, volumetric capture and spatial data — and what happens to all of it after the shoot wraps.

We write about photogrammetry, LiDAR and Gaussian splatting; about consent, provenance and likeness in the AI era; and about why the scans captured today — on film sets, in factories, across whole cities — are quietly becoming some of the most valuable data there is. Scans are not disposable production outputs. They are long-term assets, and this is where we make that case.

recent posts

Iceberg diagram: a small tip above the waterline shows stacked documents and charts representing scraped internet data, while a much larger mass below the waterline shows a city, bridge, human head, terrain contours, robotic arm, wind turbines and ship representing the vastly larger unmeasured physical world

Are We Running Out of Data?

July 22, 2026

An Actor’s Scan: why Equity’s vote on digital scanning matters

February 25, 2026

In 2026, 3D scans will start being treated as a medium in their own right

December 7, 2025

3D scanning has outgrown its cottage-industry era

November 11, 2025