Itseez3D app turns iPad into ultra-realistic ‘game changing’ 3D scanner

3d 5We tried out the app (without a sensor, so we weren’t creating any 3D objects), and what you’ll see is that it is a fairly barebones app that’s easy to use. What we noticed right away is how smooth and fast the app is, and the sample 3D objects themselves have an amazing level of detail, which you can spin and rotate 360 degrees, or pinch and zoom to view all the scanned areas; on objects like a stuffed animal and sneaker or subjects like people, you can see detailed things like hair, beard stubble, fabric, or artificial fur. You can even make out the patterns and prints in the clothing subjects are wearing. Erukhimov told us that the app will add native support for 3D printers and 3D printing services in future updates (the app can now export the information, but it’s a longer process to get it printed) but the early results are pretty impressive.

As for the future of 3D printing, Erukhimov calls the Structure Sensor a game changer. Erukhimov would know: As one of the developers of the OpenCV open source computer vision language, Erukhimov has been working in the industry for more than 15 years – seven of them with company, Itseez. He says that, for the first time, we are able to create realistic 3D products by using both 3D data and computer vision technologies, and the fact that it’s being created with a consumer mobile device is incredible. And, because you need a lot of pixels to create gorgeous 3D models, Erukhimov says 3D scanning will only improve, as the high-resolution cameras in mobile devices get better.

“This is the thing that we liked about the Structure Sensor, because suddenly mobile devices with 3D sensing capabilities are able to do much more,” Erukhimov says. “The industry is growing pretty fast. I think [more] hardware vendors will eventually create mobile 3D devices with 3D sensors, like [Google’s] Project Tango, so a lot of consumers will be scanning things.”

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