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Open-Source Photogrammetry Gets Friendlier
Simple Photogrammetry GUI bundles an open-source reconstruction stack behind a friendly UI, now with beta AMD/HIP support and useful logs.
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.
Free 3D Fruit: Fresh Assets, No Pesticides
Kiri offers 141 free, production-ready 3D fruit and vegetable scans with full PBR textures under CC0 licence.
Terrain Wrapping Made Easy: Kiri Engine’s Free Blender Add-on
Kiri Engine releases Mesh Wrap, a free Blender add-on that makes projecting and scattering 3D-scanned terrain pieces onto base geometry fast, precise, and non-destructive.
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.
Creepy-Crawlies in 3D: Free “Arthropods” Anatomy App for Creature Designers
Twelve museum arthropods, one free app, and an excellent reason to stop swatting your references. Creepy-crawlies in 3D, just in time for Halloween.
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.
TD Meetup 11: Capture Reality for Visual Effects
Let's us look on how capturing reality will improve our own creative output.
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.
Friday Fun: Temple Run, selfmade
Virtual production artists, rejoice! Scans Factory has just unleashed a massive free asset pack of over 120 high-resolution 3D scans of ancient Cambodian temples, available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
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.
VI-910 3D Scanner Used on “The Golden Compass”
Konica Minolta's 3D Laser Scanner Helped Framestore CFC Turn Models into 3D Characters
3D-NorthEast 2007
10. application-oriented workshop on the acquisition, modelling, processing and evaluation of 3D data. The 3D NordOst workshop series aims to promote the transfer of current expertise in 3D data and image processing to industrial, cultural and medical sectors and to provide a platform for the discussion of current 3D topics.
Rapidform now available in 64-bit versions
3D scan files with more than 200 million data points are now possible.
Rapidform Links 3D Scans to Pro/ENGINEER
Rapidform XOR2 liveTransfer sends scan-derived CAD geometry and feature history directly to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0.
INUS Technology Presents New 3D Scanning Software Rapidform XOS2/Scan
Comprehensive software application sets new price-performance standard / Wizards and assistants automate time-consuming tasks
SIGGRAPH 2007: 3D zoetrope in real time
The two Californian companies Mova and Gentle Giant Studios are demonstrating a 3D zoetrope at SIGGRAPH 2007 that breathes life into the 3D model of a face.
INUS Technology Presents Rapidform XOR2/Redesign
New version of the leading 3D scanning software with over 200 improvements
3D-NordOst 2006
9th application-oriented workshop on capturing, modeling, processing and evaluating 3D data. The 3D-NordOst workshop series aims to promote the transfer of current know-how in 3D data and image processing into industrial, cultural and medical sectors and provide a platform for discussion of current 3D topics.
SIGGRAPH: Low-Cost 3D Scanner for SolidWorks
Nextengine has developed a very inexpensive 3D scanner specifically for collaboration with SolidWorks
SIGGRAPH: 3D Passport Photo Booth Produces Crystal Instead of Photo
The Montreal company inSpeck demonstrates a passport photo booth at Siggraph 2006 that outputs a 3D crystal instead of photos
SIGGRAPH: Immersion Scanner on the Long Arm
As an addition to its digitizers, the manufacturer is bringing a 3D scanner to market
SIGGRAPH: New Pipeline for New Face Robot
Softimage presents Face Robot 1.5 and a new Face Robot pipeline / Prices between 15,000 and 90,000 dollars
SIGGRAPH: Scanning From the Wrist
With the ZScanner 700, Z-Corporation presents a device intended to enable reliable scanning from the wrist
SIGGRAPH: Virtools Introduces Software Suite 3.5
Enhancements include a new video engine, a ready-made shader library and 5.1 audio playback
Siggraph 2003: New Tracker Series from Polhemus
The "Liberty" models announced by Polhemus in May can operate with a temporal resolution of up to 240 Hz; the latency is less than four ms. Up to eight sensors per device capture position and rotation (six DOF).
SIGGRAPH 2003: MicroScribe SDK for Mac
Immersion’s MicroScribe series can now also serve applications running on Mac systems.
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.