Guest on 2D Is Against My Religion
John Chwalibog
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Manifold Tech
LinkedIn ↗John Chwalibog works with Manifold Tech as Director of Strategic Partnerships and previously worked with FARO, which is how the two companies started talking. On 2DIAMR, recorded live at INTERGEO 2026, John Chwalibog described the prosumer scanner user who wants answers, not point clouds.
Episode
30 minExpo & conference podcast
Scanner users want answers, not point clouds – Manifold Tech & FARO INSIGHT
John Chwalibog, Fan Yang, Tobias Böhret · Manifold Tech
In John’s words
“They want answers. They don't care so much about the point cloud or manipulating the point cloud.”
Quoted in our tech guides
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- “They want answers. They don't care so much about the point cloud or manipulating the point cloud.”▶ 6:16
Questions John answered
- What is the FARO Rovi i.1?
- A handheld SLAM scanner that came out of the partnership between FARO INSIGHT and Manifold Tech; per John Chwalibog the base model has a LiDAR sensor and three 2-megapixel global shutter cameras, with an optional panoramic camera and RTK pack. ▶ 21:02
Talks about
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