Feature: Virtual point clouds (VPC)

A new data provider is available for Virtual Point Cloud (VPC) files created by the pdal_wrench utility and the Build virtual point cloud (VPC) tool in the newly introduced Native point cloud Processing provider.
The VPC file is handled as a single layer in QGIS and may contain a large number of point cloud files whose indexes are lazy loaded when the canvas is zoomed in enough. An extent renderer is used for the individual indexes while their extent fits the canvas' width and the user defined renderer is only used when zoomed in further.
A Virtual Point Cloud is a JSON container file with a .vpc extension, referring to other files/URLs that contain the actual point cloud data. This is a concept similar to virtual rasters (VRTs) in GDAL. The JSON content is actually a STAC API ItemCollection. See VPC specification for more details.

This feature was funded by Point cloud processing and 3D data enhancements crowdfunding

This feature was developed by Stefanos Natsis