Choose a Point Cloud Viewer

Computer Vision Toolbox™ offers various point cloud viewers. This table compares the visualization viewers

This table provides a summary of point cloud viewers and the features unique to each.

Viewer	Features	Application
pcviewer	Visualize and inspect a point cloud	View and inspect large point clouds with the ability to interact with the point cloud, and set camera and viewer properties.
pcshow	Build custom point cloud visualizations	Draw on the point cloud plot using MATLAB® graphics plots. For more details, see Types of MATLAB Plots. Build a custom application with point cloud visualization.
pcshowpair	Compare two point clouds	Visualize the difference between two point clouds
pcplayer	Visualize 3-D point cloud streams from devices such as Microsoft® Kinect®	Stream point clouds from a device.