There has been an increase in the availability of affordable 3D scanners these last few years, largely down to the use of structured light technology in such scanners. Traditional 3D scanners use ...

What are Blue Light 3D Scanners? Structured light 3D scanners, typically mounted on a camera stand, robot, or tripod, function as point-and-shoot cameras and need little or no programming with minimal ...

The world of 3D scanning technology has seen significant advancements in recent years, with companies like 3DMakerpro leading the charge. The company, founded in 2015, has already acquired 88 patents ...

If you are searching for a way to scan large objects in high detail you might be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign which has raised over $1 million thanks to over 2500 backers with still 37 ...

After futzing around with a cheap pico projector, a webcam and a little bit of software, [Jas Strong] built herself a 3d scanner. In spite of the dozens of Kinect-based scanner projects, we’ve seen ...

It requires significant effort to create 3D models from scratch. Fortunately, 3D scanners have greatly expedited this process, saving valuable time and energy that would otherwise be spent on manual ...

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 ...

A structured light scanner is a type of 3D optical measuring device used to record an object's geometry. Structured light scanners gather measurements by projecting an LED light pattern onto an object ...

In a recent article, I looked at the demise of Lytro, maker of the first consumer “light field” camera, and what it meant for the future of this technology in mobile devices. As intriguing as some of ...