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November 10, 2016 05:00 pm GMT

This iPad accessory is about to up-end the whole 3D imaging industry

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From 360 video to 3D emoji, there's a big movement from Microsoft and others to make 3D imagery accessible to everyone. However, the act of scanning a real-word environment — a room and everything in it, for example — remains an expensive chore, involving hours of manual measurements and subsequent building in 3D software.

That will no longer be the case if the Structure Sensor has anything to say about it. Introduced by Occipital two years ago as a way to quickly scan objects and spaces and turn them into 3D imagery, the $379 gadget is getting an upgrade. With a new app called Canvas, the scanner can scan a room in incredible detail, letting users measure things like the length of furniture and the distance from floor to ceiling. Typical time for capturing a room scan: less than a minute. Read more...

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