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3D scanning
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3DF Zephyr 9 Adds Gaussian Splatting
3DF Zephyr 9 integrates Gaussian Splatting and adds map tiles, faster photoconsistency, improved navigation and new export options.
Adobe Sampler 6.0 Adds OpenPBR
Substance 3D Sampler 6.0 adds OpenPBR defaults, preset material templates, USD material export and updated HP Z Captis capture tools.
RealityScan 2.1.1 adds better COLMAP support and new XMP export options
RealityScan 2.1.1 is a maintenance release, but a practical one. Epic updates COLMAP exchange, adds new XMP with image list export options, cleans up mask export, and fixes a long list of editor, alignment, and CLI issues.
KIRI Engine releases free Scatter for Blender
KIRI Engine releases Scatter, a free Blender add on offering click, procedural and physics based object placement.
Epic Games updates RealityScan: 2.1 out
pic’s RealityScan 2.1 brings LiDAR & SLAM import, server automation tools and improved UV and rendering support.
RealityScan Mobile 1.8 with Tools for On-the-Go Scanning
Version 1.8 of RealityScan Mobile introduces three capture modes (including AR Guidance), mesh clean-up tools, focus peaking, capture timer and watertight mesh output: ideal for everybody capturing on-the-go.
Atlux λ 2 brings 3D scanning inside Unreal
Atlux λ 2 makes Unreal Engine a virtual 3D scanner, exporting Gaussian-ready data. Real photogrammetry, synthetic edition.
Faster, wider, cleaner: KIRI Engine 4.0 drops mobile scan limits
KIRI Engine 4.0 slashes scan time, boosts photo limits, adds AR guidance and AI PBR and plus free users enjoy unlimited exports. Production-ready, at last.
Meshroom 2025.1: Templates, Plugins and Photometric Stereo
Update 2025.1: Meshroom adds templates, photometric stereo and a plugin hub. More open, modular and production-friendly.
Skeleton Crew: How Halon Gave Ms. Blue Her Digital Bones
Halon preserved an 87-foot blue whale skeleton for AR using LiDAR, photogrammetry, and good timing—thanks to a foggy morning jog.
Lidar Gets a Lift: Kiri Engine 3.14 Adds AI to Its Scanning Game
Kiri Engine 3.14 brings AI-enhanced Lidar scanning to mobile photogrammetry—plus depth map meshing, automatic alignment, and scene cleanup.
Mesh Cleaner for Blender
VFX artist Rob Dickinson releases Mesh Cleaner, a free Blender add-on that fixes common 3D model errors with a single click.
A Wrapping Revolution: Wrap 2024.11 & Wrap4D Unveiled
FaceForm updates Wrap and Wrap4D with enhanced node graph features, new brush tools, and a comprehensive blend rig pipeline for 3D scanning professionals.
RealityScan 1.5.3 Update Eases 3D Scans with Better Processing for iOS
Epic’s RealityScan update brings flexible processing, smoother workflows, and better support for iPad Pro and image uploads.
TD Meetup 09: Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is an important part of digital asset creation and has helped countless projects create realistic digital actors, assets and environments.
VERTAGT – VFX for a dystopian satire
What does the cultural programme actually look like in a dystopia? The short film Vertagt depicts the end-time scenario of a humanity that has not achieved its climate goals. What could our future look like - if human life still exists?
3D Scan Store Releases Rendered Photorealistic Hand Scans
3D Scan Store released rendered hand-scan assets with 16K colour textures and supporting normal, displacement and specular maps.
RealityCapture 1.2 Tarasque Adds Measurement, Contours and Orthomosaic Tools
RealityCapture 1.2 Tarasque added volume and area calculations, contour export, height profiles and beta orthomosaic improvements.
Małopolska Virtual Museums Publishes Over 1,000 Historical 3D Scans
A collaboration among 40 Polish museums made more than 1,000 scans of historical objects available online, with most offered under Creative Commons licences.
Mod Tech Labs Explains Volumetric Video
Mod Tech Labs outlines a volumetric-capture workflow that records a subject from multiple angles and reconstructs an animated 3D mesh.
Vizoo xTex Automates Seamless Material Capture
Vizoo’s xTex scanner captures colour, normal, specular, bump, displacement and transparency maps and automates seamless tiling.
Zeitfeld: Martin Hoppe’s Camera Arrays Freeze Time
Martin Hoppe explains Zeitfeld’s scalable bullet-time rigs, LuxMatrix lighting system and high-speed camera experiments.
Gravity Sketch Review: Designing Freely in Virtual Reality
Gravity Sketch offers professional VR sketching and spatial design tools for creating forms, surfaces and concepts with two-handed interaction.
Scannova Automates Image Cutouts with Studio 2D and Scannova 35
Scannova combined blue-screen techniques and neural-network software to automate image cutouts and 3D product presentations.
Trimetric Offers Optical 3D Scanning with UV-Mapped Textures
Trimetric’s ATOS HR scanning service projected digital photographs onto measured polygonal geometry and generated UV-mapped textures.