The old gen 1 Kinect has seen a fair bit of use in the field of making 3D scans out of real world scenes. Now that Xbox 360 Kinects are winding up at yard sales and your local Goodwill, you might e… ...

It's hard to deny the fact that the Kinect has all but failed as a gaming device. Despite their initial decisions, Microsoft stopped including the… ...

A computer boffin has built a makeshift 3D body scanner out of everyday gadgets and used it to create a replica of his father. Dat Phan from Mission District, San Franciso, used a gaming computer ...

Captured data is assembled into a virtual module using ReconstructMe. The Kinect has been used as a 3D scanner like this before. But that time it was scanning salable goods rather than people.

Researchers at MIT devised a novel solution to 3D-scan the jaw of a T-rex, using Microsoft's Kinect sensor, and some free software, instead of high-res 3D scanners that cost up to 200 times more.

Currently, the researchers can use scans of people made with the modified Kinect to produce cheap, quickly-made avatars that could conceivably be plugged right into virtual worlds such as Second Life.

The 3D Scan-to-Print Web App is a new Kickstarter project by the Volumental group that aims to turn any depth sensing camera, such as a Kinect, into a web connected 3D scanner.

The Kinect of course doesn’t have the same level of resolution that the high-end scanner will, but is more than good enough to create a scan that can be turned into a 3D model.

Kinect Accelerator startup finalists include 3D scanner, surgery projects Star Wars Kinect aside, Microsoft wants to remind you that its motion control … ...

With 3D scanning, you only need to ensure that your 3D scanner is correctly set, and then you can produce your file. When I got a 3D scanner, I only needed to calibrate it, and it was ready.