The Epic Games RealityScan App is now available to download on iOS. The app launched into a closed beta earlier this year and allows users to turn iPhone photos into 3D models quickly and easily.
NVIDIA researchers have created a new tool that can easily turn photos into 3D objects. Called NVIDIA 3D MoMa, the company says it can allow architects, designers, concept artists, and game developers to quickly import objects into a graphics engine for digital manipulation.
Portable USB-powered displays aren't new but can be very helpful for editors on the move to get access to more screen real estate. Acer’s new model turns things up a notch though and can take a 2D image and make it appear as if it were 3D.
Epic Games, the company behind both the Unreal Engine and video game Fortnite, has announced the limited beta release of a new mobile app that turns photos into three-dimensional (3D) scans.
It looks like computer-generated digital humans are rapidly exiting the uncanny valley. Just take a look at Unreal Engine's impressive new MetaHuman Creator, which lets you create photorealistic "fake" people in just minutes.
Shutterstock is set to acquire 3D-render stock agency TurboSquid for $75 million dollars, investing in a future where photos aren't necessarily captured with a camera. TurboSquid's value appears to have soared amid the COVID-19 outbreak, as traditional photography was hampered by stay-at-home orders.
Looking Glass Factory, the company that brought you the extremely successful Kickstarter for the hologram photo frame back in December, has announced a new cloud-based service that can turn any 2D image into a 3D hologram in seconds, no programming knowledge required.
The Looking Glass Portrait is the first portrait-oriented digital photo frame capable of showcasing 3D holograms that can be made specifically for it using any camera or produced from a single Portrait Mode photo from your iPhone.
On August 4, an explostion rocked the city of Beirut, killing over 200 and injuring more than 6,500. In order to reconstruct exactly what happened, forensics researchers were able to piece together the event using photos and videos uploaded to social media.
Every year at Adobe MAX, one of the most anticipated showcases is what the company calls "Sneaks." This is where Adobe shows off bleeding-edge examples of ideas that its engineers are developing.
Over the past week, we've had the opportunity to share stories that showed both the intersection of camera technology and sports, as well as camera technology and 3D modeling for video games. The video above has a little bit of both.
3D modeling for movies and video games is often done using lasers. The modeler scans whatever it is they are trying to reconstruct using a laser and then ends up spending a good bit of time cleaning up the results in post. In contrast, a new method developed by the folks at Disney Zurich promises to generate much more accurate results by replacing the lasers with photos.
From time to time I post plots of color gamuts like the one above. Each time, I get emails asking how I make them, leading me to assume that the world's thirst for color nerdiness is going unquenched. I'm setting out to fix that in this post.
Tired of capturing the world as 2D photographs? What if you could just as easily capture things as 3D models? That's what Lynx A does. It's the world's first point-and-shoot 3D camera that produces 3D models with the push of a button. The company claims that "you can use a point-and-shoot Nikon, you'll find the Lynx A even easier to use."
Not too long ago I finally got around to picking up a decent manual flash for exploring lighting and speedlight techniques. I picked up a Yongnuo YN-560 Speedlight Flash for Canon and Nikon, and my friend Sean was kind enough to send me his old radio triggers to play with. I was mostly all set to start exploring the world of off-camera lighting...