3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when ...

Just like you can rip a song or a movie onto your hard drive, now anyone (who has an extra $1,400 to spend) will be able to take a physical 3-D object, scan it, and create a digital copy. MakerBot's ...

The Revopoint INSPIRE 2 boasts a new hybrid scanning system that is capable of capturing trickier objects than its ...

It may be based on apparently familiar technology, but Y Combinator startup Matterport reckons it's putting its 3D scanning technology, which it claims can scan real environments into 3D digital ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,100,659) for “object detection using multiple three dimensional scans.” It would seem to involve the iPhone, iPad, and the rumored Apple Glasses and an ...

Virtual reality is becoming more of a reality in our everyday lives, as more companies are investing in the technology. Sony, the company that brought us the PS5, filed a patent that looks like it ...

You know that feeling when your optical-tomography rig just can’t seem to handle 3D-scanning an object with occluded regions? So annoying! Ah, first-world problems. Well, now there’s a solution: a ...

Scanning pictures has become so common and readily available to the general public that people are doing it at home from their desks. Even some new digital picture frames can scan a photo. What ...

The elevated camera and automated image processing should appeal to those who take a lot of product shots. The rest of the machine is pretty good, but toner is ...

Human observers have a remarkable capacity to categorize complex visual scenes, such as 'kitchen' or 'beach', at a single glance 1,2. Behavioral data and computational models suggest that analysis of ...