Now the RealView 3D scanners are here to bring this technology to the everyday household. This new age device has a rotating platform that spins the object while two cameras scan the surface.

3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when t… ...

The line between computers and reality has been blurred. We have murders committed because of World of Warcraft, Second Life romances (an activity normally reserved for the three dimensional world), ...

Sony is working on a device that can scan objects in the real world into the VR world The company filed a patent.

If your hardware is powerful enough for the task, rendering 3D objects isn't too difficult to do with Windows, a Kinect device and some free apps.

Minecraft fans are a passionate lot, so you have to figure they’ll go crazy about scanning their own characters into the voxel-graphics game.

As services go, 3D scanning is pretty hard. To get good models you need expensive lasers and data acquisition systems and even the Kinect-based scanners require expensive hardware... or do they?

Scientists have developed a new method for producing accurate 3D scans of complex objects. The method's key ingredient is water.

The new Structure Sensor from startup company Occipital promises to convert iPads and iPhones into 3D scanners. The device, which launches today on Kickstarter, is designed to create accurate ...

The "game changing" Itseez3D app for iPad uses the new Occipital Structure Sensor to create realistic 3D scans on a mobile device.