There are plenty of reasons to pick up or build a 3D scanner. Modeling for animation or special effects, reverse engineering or designing various devices or products, and working with fabrics and ...

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to capture all angles and stitch it together ...

If you would like to quickly create high resolution 3D scans of people’s faces using your Android smartphone or tablet. You may be interested to know that Bellus3D has announced the availability of ...

HP’s Sprout all-in-one was a behemoth when it launched, and its second iteration, the Sprout Pro G2, wasn’t any different. Both PCs made 3D scanning easier by incorporating a down-facing camera atop ...

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 ...

Like 3D printing is to regular two-dimensional printing, so too does 3D scanning open up a realm of possibilities we couldn’t have imagined with our old flatbed Epson image scanner. The ability to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...