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Occipital Releases One Of The First High Quality 3D Scanners For OS X
While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of Skanect for OS X. Originally developed by France-based...
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New Project Will Let You Scan 3D Objects Using Your Browser
As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require expensive hardware… or do they? Read More
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MakerBot’s $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October
The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they’re finally ready to push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little...
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Make A Little You With Shapify.me
Artec, makers of high-end 3D scanners for industrial clients, have added a little whimsy to your day with Shapify.me, a service that can scan and print your body in full color, allowing you to make a...
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Fuel3D Gets $1.1M To Refocus Its 3D Scanning Tech On Medical Imaging
Fuel3D, a U.K. startup spun out of Oxford University that’s commercializing 3D scanning technology, has secured a $1.1 million development contract to create a 3D medical imaging system. The money...
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Rendor Turns Your Single-Camera Smartphone Into A Real 3D Scanner
Using a piece of paper with a specially printed grid and a regular smartphone, Rendor may have just cracked the 3D scanning code. The system allows you to create a 3D scan of almost any object simply...
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3D Sensing Tablet, EyesMap, Aims To Replace Multiple Surveyor Tools
Spanish startup E-Capture R&D is building a tablet with 3D sensing capabilities that’s aiming to target the enterprise space as a portable tool for surveyors, civil engineers, architects and the...
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New Wizardry Allows Researchers To Turn Photos Into Three-Dimensional Objects
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a way to manipulate objects in photos in three dimensions, allowing you to see all sides of formerly 2D objects. How is it done? Some might say...
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Project Mosul Aims To Resurrect The Artifacts Destroyed By ISIS
In what could be one of the most interesting and important uses of 3D scanning to come along in a long while, the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage is working to collect...
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A Chat With Project Mosul About Rebuilding A Ruined History
Matthew Vincent is one of the members of Project Mosul, an effort to recreate the lost artifacts at the Mosul Museum that were recently destroyed by ISIS fighters. By taking pictures and images of the...
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How 3D Tech Is Saving The Animal Kingdom
Not since the extinction of the dinosaurs has Earth lost so much life. This time, however, it can’t be attributed to asteroids, volcanic eruptions or an ice age. Humans are the perpetrators. According...
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One professor’s quest to 3D scan every fish in the sea
If you were wondering what a mottled sculpin looks like, there are plenty of pictures available online. But while they may satisfy a curious tidepooler, the discerning ichthyologist demands more....
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Lockheed Martin’s Hydra Fusion builds 3D maps in real time from drone footage
A drone is a great eye in the sky, but if you want richer data than what its cameras show — for example, detailed 3D maps — you might be looking at a few hours of processing time. That is, unless your...
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Scandy is bringing 3D scanning to Android phones near you
Not content with letting you 3D print your images on demand, Scandy is today launching a beta program for its $500 device to make it easy to scan objects in 3D, all from your Android device. The...
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CALA’s app fits designer clothing to your body using iPhone photos
A new startup called CALA aims to make it easier for new designers to break into the fashion business by offering everything needed to run their e-commerce operations – from production to delivery. In...
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Universities and museums join in effort to ‘scan all vertebrates’
It seems that even scientific endeavors fall victim to feature creep — or in the case of an effort to scan all fishes that has expanded to include all vertebrates, creature creep. More than a dozen...
View ArticleOccipital Releases One Of The First High Quality 3D Scanners For OS X
While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of Skanect for OS X. Originally developed by France-based...
View ArticleNew Project Will Let You Scan 3D Objects Using Your Browser
As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require expensive hardware… or do they?...
View ArticleMakerBot’s $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October
The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they’re just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little...
View ArticleMake A Little You With Shapify.me
Artec, makers of high-end 3D scanners for industrial clients, have added a little whimsy to your day with Shapify.me, a service that can scan and print your body in full color, allowing you to make a...
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