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 ...

D scanners rely on being able to identify physical features of an object, and line up what it saw a moment ago with what it ...

Got something you want to scan in 3D? It turns out you can use your iPhone with apps like Qlone, Scandy Pro, and Polycam, without any special hardware. With Apple rolling out Object Capture on MacOS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a doctor, a CT scan be a lifesaving tool for spotting dangerous cancers. But the same tools that let us look inside the human body can also let us peer into almost any object. Experts from ...

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 ...