Hyperscan!

Homie is standing in the line of sight?

and line of site will only allow a very, VERY small portion of that rail car to be scanned.  I mean, why such a shallow angle for the tracker and so close to the object to scan?  Sure, they 'had' to do it to get it in the picture, but still, image doing leap frog alignments with ONLY the laser.... on such a flat object....

These are the kinds of things the money counters can't (won't) understand when they jump on the bandwagon and say:

That's the secret (of the metrascan which I saw a demo for once) you just scan until you run outta reach, then kick the tripod across the floor (literally) to the next zone and keep scanning. No re-alignment needed, seamless scanning over very large volumes!!! 

To be fair to Hexagon though... the Metrascan uses small target stickers to maintain accuracy over long distances and Hexagon said no targets are needed, maybe theirs doesn't do the same thing? 

Don't like the Thanos-glove-looking thing... too big. Line of sight is important.

Marvelscan and Atlasscan peaked my interest though.

Most of the parts we have are too big, we are stuck in between "too big for a Romer arm" and the "single line scanner sucks for larger parts" Using targets might be ok, but using a preset inspection stage is never going to happen.