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Testing Matterport’s Pro 2 for professional 3D scanning
Sam Billingsley field tests the Matterport Pro2 for professional scanning and asks–Is it going to replace laser scanners? In-depth review inside.
Effortless 3D lidar scanning for $8k
The lidar scanner and HDR capture system from new company Effortless 3D hits a price that could bring some seriously stiff competition to the low-cost 3D capture space.
Ricoh’s new Theta V does 4K 360° video
With 360° videogrammetry on the rise, Ricoh’s new camera should prove just as popular as its predecessors.
Cupix: 3D + 360° capture that balances price and power
A new web-based 3D reality capture tool exploits the full potential of cheap 360° cameras.
Spectacular Photogrammetry
Further proof that one of the oldest kinds of 3D modeling can still surprise and delight.
BloomCE: A Design App Promising a Better Take on the Point Cloud
The directors of Bloom Technologies, Dan Arnold and Anu Rastogi, believe 3D scanning is lagging…
NCTech Made a Small $500 3D-Capture Device
For enterprise users, NCTech says, the barrier to entry for 3D capture tech is virtually eliminated.
Vexcel UltraCam Panther: An Anticipated 3D-Scanning Backpack Arrives
Sporting a modular design, a ton of cameras, and proprietary localization technology, it looks like the Panther was worth the wait.
Kaarta SLAM Tech is Improving Fast
Kaarta’s Stencil scanner won Microsoft’s indoor mapping challenge for the second year in a row–and reported much better accuracy than last year.
This Giant Library of 3D Images will Teach Machines How to Recognize Objects
Computer vision applications have become shockingly adept at recognizing the content of images. Google’s “Quick, Draw”…
Kaarta Launches Contour: A Real-Time Handheld Lidar Scanner
Kaarta’s new device makes it easy to spot-check work in the field, and even enables a few unusual workflows.
GeoSLAM to Offer Real-Time SLAM Upgrade for ZEB-REVO
Making SLAM even faster.