This amazing accessory turns your iPad into a 3D scanner
When most people play with a Kinect, the best they can hope for is a high score in Dance Central. When Occipital CEO Jeff Powers saw Microsoft's innovative sensor package for the first time he decided to change the direction of his company and got to work developing the Structure Sensor, a new 3D scanning tool that earned the company over $250,000 (£156,000) in a single day. Product designers can use their iPads and Occipital's anodised aluminium add-on to scan objects and create 3D models suitable for a MakerBot. Realtors can take advantage of its depth sensors to capture the dimensions of a room and create a 360-degree panoramic photo that can be embedded in a listing. Gamers will be able to use the slick sensor to play a bevy of games built on top of the Structure's open API. The Structure employs a suite of sensor technologies developed by PrimeSense -- which also created the original technology used in the Kinect. The change in strategy hasn't come without costs.
Occipital’s New Structure Sensor Turns Your iPad Into A Mobile 3D Scanner
The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama before iOS 6′s Panorama feature took some of the wind out of its sails. Their roots may be in software, but now the team is trying something very, very new. Occipital just launched a Kickstarter campaign for its very first hardware project: the Structure, a portable 3D sensor that straps to the back of your iPad that should ship by next February. Update: Wow, the Occipital team has blown past its $100K funding goal in just over three hours. “It took us out of our comfort zone,” CEO Jeff Powers admitted. “We went from a team of basically three to about 13, which is still ridiculously tiny, and no one sleeps anymore.” Those sleepless nights seem to have paid off. The really astonishing bit is how quickly the Structure works in capturing all of this data.
The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices
Google's Project Tango is a smartphone with sensors to map the world around you
Google's just announced Project Tango, a 5-inch Android smartphone prototype equipped with Kinect-like 3D sensors and other components to track motion and map your surroundings. Unlike other 3D-sensing devices including Kinect, Project Tango includes the Myriad 1 vision processor from Movidius, which allows for advanced motion and depth tracking without sucking a ton of power. Available to a limited group of developers today, the handset could enable enhanced indoor navigation and immersive gaming, among other things. Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group is the brains behind Tango, and ATAP head Johnny Lee (formerly of the Microsoft Kinect team) said that the prototype "strives to give mobile devices a human-like understanding of space and motion ... enabling new and enhanced types of user experiences." Comments
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3D Scan From An iPad to Skanect on Your Mac or PC - Wirelessly There’s no easier way to capture high-quality, full-color 3D scans than with the Structure Sensor attached to your iPad streaming wirelessly to Skanect on your Mac or PC. But the Structure Sensor is much more than just a 3D scanner. It’s also a developer-friendly 3D sensing platform for mobile devices that lets you map indoor spaces, explore mixed reality worlds and much more. Compatible with iPad (5th generation), 9.7-inch iPad Pro, 12.9-inch iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 2/3 and iPad (4th generation) - and it’s developer hackable to work with Android, Linux, Windows and OS X too. Now get the special bundle for one low price. Includes USB Hacker Cable optional for wired connection to Mac or PC desktops, iPad bracket, and a license for Skanect Pro.
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This looks promising.... What would be great though is if the download link actually led to a program that could be downloaded. Just a slight problem..... ReCap -create intelligent 3D models from laser scans – Autodesk
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3D printing mini sculptures of yourself – a new trend spreading like wildfire? | Developing Dreams blog
PLEASE NOTE: We are now fully booked for the Brighton Digital Festival! You can still visit the installation and see a 3D body scanner and 3D printers in action, but unfortunately, we don’t have any spaces left to get people scanned and print little figures of them. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn for regular updates. With the help of Italian installation artist Emilia Telese and some technological wizardry from 3Dify, Developing Dreams are dragging the concept of the photo booth kicking and screaming into the age of 3D printing and low cost 3D scanning. As part of the Brighton Digital Festival, you can visit the interactive installation ‘Break The Mould’ to get scanned, digitised and recreated in bio plastic as a 3d printed mini you. ■ Jubilee Library (9 – 22 September) ■ Clearleft Gallery at 68 Middle Street (25 – 29 September) ■ Mad Hatter Cafe (30 September – 4 October) She said: “3D printers are very mechanical and impersonal.
