The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan ...

Microsoft Research is working on a new technology called MobileFusion that will allow users to create high-quality 3D images in real time using a regular smartphone. By slowly panning a smartphone ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Microsoft wants the camera on the back of your phone to do more than take 2D photos. A new project ...

Mobile scanning software maker Itseez 3D has released an update to its 3D scanner app that can accommodate full-body 3D models. Designed to work with Occipital’s Structure Sensor ($379), a snap-on ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

These tools are becoming more and more commonplace…it will become the norm in, if not months, a year or two. “They found a lovely, lovely woman in Russia,” said Anna Zevelyov, director of business ...

What are Blue Light 3D Scanners? Structured light 3D scanners, typically mounted on a camera stand, robot, or tripod, function as point-and-shoot cameras and need little or no programming with minimal ...

Let’s say you want to 3D print a replica of an object in your home. The first step, of course, is capturing a detailed 3D scan — a process that’s currently accomplished to varying degrees of accuracy ...

This just into PCWorld/Macworld Labs: the new HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275, which is a color laser multi-function printer with what I call a scanner-on-a-stick. It’s a camera on an elevated arm that ...

Qi Pan, a 3rd Year PhD student at Cambridge University, has developed groundbreaking 3D scanning software that utilizes a standard web camera. This innovative software, named ProFORMA, can reproduce a ...