LIDAR
Apple: Possible 3D Laser Scanner for iPhone 8, with Facial Recognition, Augmented Reality, 3D Printing Potential
As Apple’s plans for breaking into the 3D industry continue to confound, small bits and pieces have been thrown out to tease us over the past few years. We’ve tried…
University of Nottingham Researchers Use 3D Scanning to Reveal Secrets of Hidden Priest Hole Chamber in Tudor Mansion
Two years ago, the University of Nottingham in the UK received funding for a lab filled with analysis equipment and roughly £2.7 million worth of 3D printing equipment. It’s not just…
Researchers in Guatemala Use LIDAR 3D Scanning in Mirador Basin, Discover Ancient Network of Superhighways
It’s one thing to use a 3D scanner to scan a person, animal, or object, and use the scan to 3D print an object you can pick up and hold,…
Project ALISE Uses Lasers and Satellites to Study Global Climate Change
While there are some who still insist that climate change isn’t a problem, or that human activity has had little to no impact on the climate, it’s getting harder and…
In World First, LiDAR Scanning and a 3D Printed Part Help Subsea Well Reach Final Abandoned Status
Abandoning a project can seem like the easy part — after all, you’re done with it, just let it go, right? In the case of some projects, it’s much, much more complicated….
Ford Announces Plan to Have Automated Driverless Cars on the Road by 2021
A lot can happen in five years, although that amount of time seems to fly past nowadays. 2011 seems almost disturbingly recent, so 2021 might as well be just around…
Configurable Commercial Quality Versa3D Desktop Fabrication Machine Launches on Kickstarter
The current trend of low-cost starter 3D printers has seemed to dominate the 3D printing industry for the past year, and while it has produced several great options of bringing…
How Using 3D LIDAR Technology Can Help Keep Our Beaches Litter-Free
Humans continue to produce garbage and waste at unprecedented rates, and sadly much of it ends up in our oceans which promptly deposit great amounts of it on our beaches….
How 3D Aerial Laser Scanning Helped Discover a Massive Medieval City Hidden Under Cambodian Jungles
The Cambodian temple city complex of Angkor Wat is one of the largest religious monuments in the world, but until 2015 we had no idea how huge it was. A…
3D Scans of Pacific Northwest Mountains Translate into Beautiful Beeswax Candles, Now on Kickstarter
Like many people I know, I have way too many candles. There’s a reason companies like Yankee Candle and White Barn do such good business: people love candles. They smell wonderful,…
Depth-Sensing Cameras Will Soon Turn Every Smartphone into a High-Quality 3D Scanner
It looks like the depth-sensing time-of-flight camera technology that was developed and popularized for projects like the Xbox Kinect and the ZCam are already showing up in the next generation…
3D Technology-Powered Self-Driving Cars Will Be a Personal Privacy Nightmare
With virtually every car manufacturer on the planet heavily investing in the development or research of self-driving or assistive driving technology, driverless cars are virtually guaranteed to play a huge…
Ford Testing New Driverless Cars in Blizzard Conditions Using 3D Imaging and LiDar
Would you trust your car to drive itself? That is a question that hangs over the auto and tech industries’ efforts to build fleets of autonomous cars like a dark…
Tiny Chip From Caltech Could Revolutionize 3D Imaging
Three-dimensional imaging has a number of applications in bio-medicine, nano-particle characterization, security, robotics and gesture recognition. In the past, such systems have been either single pixel detectors or bench-top devices…
