The app, MobileFusion, uses a smartphone's hardware and RGB camera to take 3D scans -- a cheap and accessible way for most consumers to collect such images. Microsoft has produced earlier scanning ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But if you’re looking for a challenge, and want to end up with a printer that ...

Many makers all over the world have started spending a good amount of their time at community Makerspaces and Hackerspaces, and as a result, they have had to develop portable tool kits that fit their ...

Occipital, the maker of the Structure Sensor, has acquired a company called Lynx Laboratories, one that launched its own mobile 3D scanner on Kickstarter a few years ago. The Lynx staff will join ...

We are conducting research on 3D displays that enable the viewing of a natural 3D image without the need for special glasses. Here, we introduce a portable interactive 3D display and content enabling ...

Need medical assistance after a blaster fight on a spaceship? This new handheld, portable 3D printer could help. Scientists at the University of Toronto created the 3D skin printer that looks like it ...

Samsung's Freestyle+ upgrades its predecessor with the ability to adjust images to fit whatever surface and from whatever ...

Samsung debuted the world’s first 3D-capable Blu-ray player today, but don’t get too excited about relaxing to a 3D movie on a long flight. The BD-C8000 doesn’t offer 3D on-the-go, just when hooked up ...

Researchers 3D printed a mini quadrupole mass filter, a key component of a mass spectrometer, that performs as well as some commercial-grade devices. It can be fabricated in hours for a few dollars ...

A team has developed a portable device that produces high-resolution 3D images of human skin within 10 minutes. A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a ...

Good portable monitors improve your computing experience by providing more screen real estate. But two 4K portable monitors announced today, Acer’s SpatialLabs View and SpatialLabs View Pro, have a ...

In this series of articles, we will introduce three-dimensional (3D) images and augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) technology aiming to provide “immersive content” allowing a highly realistic ...