Guest on 2D Is Against My Religion

Bert Azizoglu

CEO and co-founder, NUBIGON

Bert Azizoglu is the CEO and co-founder of NUBIGON, desktop software that turns reality capture data into renders and videos for clients of scanning professionals. On 2DIAMR, recorded live at INTERGEO 2026, Bert Azizoglu talked about hybrid scenes of point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM, design in context and sun analysis on existing buildings.

Episode

16 min

Expo & conference podcast

Point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM in one scene – Bert Azizoglu, NUBIGON

Bert Azizoglu · NUBIGON22 Oct 2026

In Bert’s words

“So even if the employees look at the data, the decision-makers rarely look at the data.”

Listen at 12:42 · Point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM in one scene – Bert Azizoglu, NUBIGON

“So reality capture provides context, but when you do reality capture, you only capture at one moment in time.”

Listen at 14:26 · Point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM in one scene – Bert Azizoglu, NUBIGON

“So if you are doing feature extraction work, and you show the extracted model or the drawing together with the point cloud, people have more confidence in it.”

Listen at 8:36 · Point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM in one scene – Bert Azizoglu, NUBIGON

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“So even if the employees look at the data, the decision-makers rarely look at the data.”▶ 12:42

Questions Bert answered

Can you combine point clouds, Gaussian splats and BIM in one scene?: Yes – per Bert Azizoglu, NUBIGON’s hybrid scenes combine point clouds, Gaussian splats, meshes, CAD and BIM models so the accuracy of one and the photorealism of another validate each other. ▶ 7:47
Is NUBIGON online or offline software?: Desktop software with data hosted on the client’s side, which Bert Azizoglu says suits public safety and critical infrastructure clients; an online application is in development (as of October 2026). ▶ 5:43
Why show reality capture data to decision-makers as a video?: Per Bert Azizoglu, decision-makers are rarely technical and rarely open the data themselves, so a short teaser video gives a board a quick first insight. ▶ 12:42
Can you do sun and shadow analysis on existing buildings with reality capture?: That is what NUBIGON is building, per Bert Azizoglu: sun and shadow analysis and sun exposure mapping on reality capture data, because architects usually analyse sun only on models of new designs. ▶ 14:26

Talks about

Olli Huttunen – 3D Gaussian Splatting creator
Michael Schoelkopf – Director, Product Management Reality Capture, NavVis
Barry Bassnett – Digital twin practitioner, author of Tower of Twins
Zlata Karpushina – Go-To-Market Strategist, FJ Dynamics
Mehdi Boroumand – SLAM scanning practitioner, Australia
Arash Keissami – CEO, NIRA