These 3D scans are precise enough to capture the fine folds in a piece of clothing or the subtle curves of a ceramic vase.

For creating 3D printer files, your options include smartphone apps or expensive standalone scanners.

Got something you want to scan in 3D? It turns out you can use your iPhone with apps like Qlone, Scandy Pro, and Polycam, without any special hardware.

Face-scanning tech is faster, more secure, less prone to annoyingly not working when you really need to log into your iPhone right now dammit.

It can also be used for simple 3D scanning, and [Scott Yu-Jan] found a better way to do that. The main problem with using an iPhone as a 3D scanner in this manner is that the sensor is built into ...

I've already tried a few early lidar-enabled 3D scanning apps on the iPhone 12 Pro with mixed success (3D Scanner App, Lidar Scanner and Record3D), but they can be used to scan objects or map out ...

Capture, an iPhone 3D scanner app, hints at the future of augmented reality The 'Capture' app is far from perfect, but it may be a rough draft of features to come. By Leif Johnson ...

Capture is a new iPhone app created by the Y Combinator-backed startup Standard Cyborg. By leveraging the sensors and cameras in Apple’s newest smartphones, it allows anyone to perform 3D scans ...

The PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its developers mostly just want people ...

You've got a LiDAR scanner if you've got an iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, or an iPad Pro, but Apple doesn't appear to give you any way to use it. Here's how you can, what you need, and why ...

Scanning a space with lidar, which uses very fast pulses of laser light to build a topographical map, is typically 100 times faster than the traditional method: photogrammetry. Photogrammetry, on ...