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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was taken from the February 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

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 ...

The elevated camera and automated image processing should appeal to those who take a lot of product shots. The rest of the machine is pretty good, but toner is ...

Human observers have a remarkable capacity to categorize complex visual scenes, such as 'kitchen' or 'beach', at a single glance 1,2. Behavioral data and computational models suggest that analysis of ...