Finally broke down and started playing with my Project Tango Dev Kit. This thing is AWESOME. Unfortunately, the mesh Constructor app doesn't quite work the way I thought it did: I assumed the color camera was producing an actual texture map on the fly, when in fact that data is being applied to the mesh as a vertex color. I can't decimate the mesh without losing color information, which means UV unwrapping these things at full resolution is gonna be... Interesting. Should be worth it, though: something came up that requires me to build a prototype with scanned rooms. More on that in a future post...
