Virtual facebow records created with a smartphone 3D scanner may serve as a reliable alternative to conventional facebows, according to a clinical study recently published in the Journal of Prosthetic ...

OpenScan has created a low-budget, high quality DIY 3D scanning system, that is fully open-source and modular and available to purchase in a variety of different packs depending on your needs from ...

Fingerprint scanners have made life a little bit easier for smartphone users. Premium smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung use them to cut down the time of having to enter your pin every time you ...

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Following on from its unveiling back in September of this year, Smart3D has now launched their Pixelio smartphone 3D scanner on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website with the aim of raising £33,000 to ...

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 ...

3D scanning aims to capture the geometry of the 3D world. However, most existing solutions require a complicated setup, are often hard to use and might not always work outdoors. Marc Pollefeys, ...

People that are heavily into 3D printing can get new things to print into their computer for the printer to work on using a 3D scanner. A new 3D scanner has debuted called eora 3D and unlike some ...

There are multiple apps that use the iPhone to perform 3D scanning of objects, but most of them require a LiDAR scanner (distance measuring sensor) and cannot be used on models that do not have a ...

The new software works with existing smartphone technology that allows the user to scan a 3D model almost as easy as taking a photograph. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

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3D scanning is really cool, but it can be expensive to buy 3D scanners, meaning that few people can actually use the technology. A British company called Pixelio, however, has announced a turntable ...