The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan ...

3D printing has been a huge boon to home fabricators that want to create trinkets whenever they want. While all that plastic isn’t great for the environment, it’s already proven itself as a great ...

[Christopher] from the Bamberg Germany hackerspace, [Backspace], wrote in to tell us about one of the group’s most recent projects. It’s a Kinect-based 3D scanner (translated) that has been made ...

A proof of concept prototype handheld 3D scanner has been created by Mario Lukas, using a Microsoft Xbox Kinect motion sensor and the small single board Raspberry Pi mini PC. The Raspberry Pi powered ...

If you fancy creating your very own full size colour 3D body scan you might be interested to know that Microsoft has this week added support for its Kinect for Windows v2 sensor to 3D Builder 3D ...

Researchers at the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) came up with a novel solution when they found that their sophisticated 3D scanning equipment wasn't quite up to the huge ...

Many console gamers know the drudgery of entering a download code with a gamepad or keyboard. Now that Kinect is part and parcel of the Xbox One experience, however, they'll always get to skip that ...

MIT’s Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which ...