XGRIDS, the company behind the Lixel and PortalCam professional 3D scanners, has brought its reality capture technology to ...

Way back in 2014, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I got the chance to be turned into a 3D model. Unfortunately, they wanted several hundred dollars for a 3-inch model that would have ...

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 ...

Excellent detail capture on a useful object, like this DeWalt drill model from a 3D scan, is more the exception than the rule. (Scan by Alex Harvey, courtesy of Polycam) Polycam is another app/service ...

3D scanning is becoming much more accessible, which means it’s more likely that the average hacker will use it to solve problems — possibly odd ones. That being the case, a handy tool to have in one’s ...

Most 3D scanners are handheld devices that scan small to medium-sized objects with a high degree of accuracy. The resulting files are used for 3D modeling or 3D printing and they can produce fantastic ...

Sammy is a computing, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, 3D scanning, and 3D modeling author. He has contributed articles on various websites, including Makeuseof, Tomshardware, All3dp, 3Dsourced, and several ...

Circle's Arc blockchain lets AI agents pay humans in USDC via escrow to capture verifiable 3D scans of real places for physical AI and robotics.

Today’s 3D scanners can be handheld, compact devices that are lightweight and maneuverable. The manufacturing industry has evolved significantly since the Industrial Revolution, evolving from the ...

Under the hood, LCC Scan uses 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to generate photorealistic 3D representations of the real world.