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Jul 28, 20173D Laser Scanning

PIXAR Deep Dive on SSS: SIGGRAPH Preview

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May 8, 2017New Technology

Live Planet Unveils NVIDIA Powered Computational Camera Showcasing Real-Time 360 Stereoscopic VR

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Apr 23, 2017In the News

Shot on Lytro’s Light-field Camera, ‘Hallelujah’ Is a Stunning Mix of Volumetric Film and Audio

Scroll to next section Scroll to next section Previous Previous Previous Next Next Next 1 2 3 Shot on Lytro’s Light-field Camera, ‘Hallelujah’ Is a…

Nov 16, 20163D Laser Scanning

Leica Geosystems and Autodesk Announce BLK360 $16k 3D Laser Scanner

Leica Geosystems Announces Complete Imaging Solution: Leica BLK360 Imaging Laser Scanner and Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro App Las Vegas, November 16th, 2016,…

Sep 15, 2016LiDAR

Velodyne LiDAR Announces Puck Hi-Res™ LiDAR Sensor

Velodyne LiDAR Announces Puck Hi-Res™ LiDAR Sensor, Offering Higher Resolution to Identify Objects at Greater Distances Industry-leading, real-time LiDAR…

May 31, 2016New Technology

Chaos Group Patents Scanning Technology For World’s Most Accurate 3D Materials

SOFIA, BULGARIA (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 23, 2016 [Source] Today, Chaos Group announces a new scanning technology that can produce an exact digital replica of a…

Sep 3, 20153D Laser Scanning

Google Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS

SCANable helped bring the Google Spotlight Stories fourth animated film to life by capturing all of the sets, locations, actors and vehicles in 3D for…

Jan 20, 20153D Laser Scanning

FARO® Launches Innovative, User-Friendly Handheld 3D Scanner to Meet Growing Demand for Portable Scanning

LAKE MARY, Fla., Jan. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement, imaging, and…

Nov 9, 2014LiDAR

Leica Geosystems HDS Introduces Patent-Pending Innovations for Laser Scanning Project Efficiency

With Leica Cyclone 9.0, the industry leading point cloud solution for processing laser scan data, Leica Geosystems HDS introduces major, patent-pending…

Aug 18, 2014Animation

OMOTE Real-time Face Tracking 3D Projection Mapping

Forget the faces of historic monuments, the new frontier of 3D projection mapping is the faces of humans. Created by Nobumichi Asai and friends, technical…

Jun 24, 20143D Laser Scanning

3D Sensing Tablets Aims To Replace Multiple Surveyor Tools

Source: Tech Crunch As we reported earlier this year, Google is building a mobile device with 3D sensing capabilities — under the Project Tango moniker.…

Jun 24, 20143D Laser Scanning

Artec Announces the World’s First 3D Full Body Scanner – Shapify Booth

A twelve second body scan and shoppers pick up their 3D printed figurine next time they visit the supermarket P-3D SELFIE_ITV2000_Vimeo from Granada…

Jun 6, 20143D Laser Scanning

Mantis Vision’s MV4D Tapped As Core 3D Capture Tech Behind Google’s Project Tango Tablets

Mantis Vision, a developer of some of the world’s most advanced 3D enabling technologies, today confirmed that its MV4D technology platform will serve as…

Jun 5, 20143D Laser Scanning

Microsoft Kinect for Windows v2: Affordable MoCap and 3D Scanning Solution

Amid the volley of announcements from Microsoft’s Build conference, is word that the new Kinect for Windows has a near-future release timeframe for both…

Jun 5, 2014Animation

Leap Motion Controller Update to Offer Affordable Individual Joint MoCap

Leap Motion has announced that the software for its self-titled PC gesture-control device will soon track the movement of individual finger joints, as…

Mar 30, 2014Modeling

Introducing R3DS Wrap – Topology Transfer Tool

Wrap is a topology transfer tool. It allows to utilize the topology you already have and transfer your new 3D-scanned data onto it. The resulting models…

Jan 14, 2014New Technology

2014 Sochi Winter Olympics to Feature Giant 3D Pinscreen of Your Face

Visitors to this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics will have the opportunity to see their face rendered on the side of a building in giant 3D mechanical…

Nov 29, 2012In the News

Staples to offer full-color ‘Easy 3D’ printing service

FRANKFURT, Germany, November 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Full color and low cost make 3D printing accessible to everyone In a giant step toward the reality of…

Jul 26, 2012New Technology

Kinect: Point Clouds and Face Tracking in AutoCAD

Originally posted by Greg Duncan at http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Kinect-to-AutoCAD-v15-and-some-AutoCAD-Face-Tracking-too Today’s projects…

Nov 24, 2010Featured

Microsoft Unknowingly Revolutionizes the 3D Imaging Industry [Kinect]

Being the bleeding edge technology geeks that we are here at SCANable, we have been closely following Microsoft’s adoption of Israeli developer…

Oct 25, 2010Events

Leica Geosystems 2010 HDS Worldwide User Conference – Day 1

The conference kicked off this morning with some great presentations including a live preview of Cyclone 7.2 and its new pcE high speed visualization…

Oct 6, 2010In the News

FARO Introduces the Focus3D – the Smallest and Lightest 3D Laser Scanner Ever Built

LAKE MARY, Fla., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ — FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions,…

Aug 14, 20103D Laser Scanning

FARO will launch a revolution in 3D at Intergeo 2010

FARO Technologies, a provider of portable 3D measurement and imaging solutions, says it will launch “revolutionary” 3D laser scanner technology at…

May 1, 20103D Laser Scanning

Google Maps Street View 2.0 [LiDAR]

Brian Ussery is reporting that Google is back in Atlanta, GA making Street View images for Google Maps but, this time they brought in the big guns. Beu…

Apr 13, 2010Featured

Create Floor Plans Automatically from 3D Point Clouds [Point-Cab]

SCANable is evaluating this promising new software and will follow-up with an indepth review in the coming days. In the meantime, please feel free to…

Mar 31, 2010In the News

Intelisum receives U.S. Patent for GPS-Enhanced Laser Scanning System

On March 30,2010, Intelisum Inc. received a U.S. Patent for “GPS-enhanced system and method for automatically capturing and co-registering virtual models…

Mar 25, 2010Featured

3D Visualization Comes Alive [Holograms]

Three-dimensional space is a geometric model of the physical universe in which we live, work and are now entertained. Television manufacturers are quickly…

Mar 10, 2010In the News

Boeing Launches Compact 3-D Imaging Camera

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced it has begun offering a new, compact, energy-efficient camera that…

Feb 9, 2010Events

SPAR 2010 Laser Scanning Conference Summary

Due to inclement weather in Washington D.C., I was not able to make it back to The Woodlands in time for the first day of SPAR 2010, but I sure do have a…

Oct 26, 20093D Laser Scanning

Leica Geosystems HDS Announces New 3D Laser Scanning Software

Leica Geosystems announces three new laser scanning software products for scan data import, forensic scene mapping, and modeling complex 3D surfaces.…

Sep 30, 2009New Technology

Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information

The rapid speed at which technology is advancing seems to amaze me every single day and today is no exception. Below is a video demonstrating ongoing…

Sep 3, 20093D Laser Scanning

REVIEW: Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 and Cyclone 7

On Sepember 1, 2009, Leica Geosystems and Point of Beginning Magazine hosted a webinar titled The Business of Laser Scanning — hype or competitive…

Sep 1, 20093D Laser Scanning

Leica Announces New ScanStation C10 Laser Scanner

Leica ScanStation C10 The All-in-One Laser Scanner for Any Application Today’s most popular class of laser scanner – ScanStation™ – is now in a compact,…

Aug 24, 2009In the News

Technology of the Future – Where Microsoft Thinks We Will Be by 2019

Technology is a wonderful thing… when it works. I am always fascinated by the rapid speed in which technology is advancing. Augmented reality, intelligent…

Jun 13, 20093D Laser Scanning

3D Laser Mapping/Riegl Brings World’s Fastest, Lightest Laser Scanner to the UK

Nottingham, UK – 3D Laser Mapping has announced the UK launch of the world’s fastest and lightest mobile laser scanner. Designed to instantly 3D map…