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Microsoft to Integrate Materialise Cloud-Based 3D Printing Service into 3D Builder and Other MS 3D Printing Apps
For years 3D printing was often derided as a fad, or a niche market and pretty roundly ignored by all of the major tech companies. Despite that, soon businesses started…
New Windows 10 IoT Core App Allows Users to Easily Network Their 3D Printer Using a Raspberry Pi
Microsoft Windows has always been an early supporter of 3D printing, not only developing their own 3D printing app, but offering native 3D printer support for a bunch of 3D…
The Next Rembrandt: Reaching Toward the Human Soul with 3D Printed Data
The technical world of 3D printing is an absolute wonder of precision and possibility. It has become clear that there is an as yet unlimited potential for improvement of the…
Mcor Announces Adoption of 3MF File Format for ARKe
In San Francisco, the Microsoft Build 2016 conference is now underway. The annual event attracts thousands from the developer world, and attendees can expect major announcements about new updates, apps…
Ohne Titel Wows at New York Fashion Week with Shapeways 3D Printed Dress
3D printing in fashion… Is it a new trend or is it a novelty? Often I am asked if I think 3D printed garments will replace traditional textiles and manufacturing….
It Looks Like Apple is Finally Jumping into the Virtual Reality Market
While Apple has always been notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to ongoing projects and technology development, it seemed a little off that we haven’t heard much from them concerning virtual…
Focus on Virtual Reality: HP to Release Sprout Pro in February, Retailing at $2199
While it may seem to many that it was just yesterday HP was announcing their entry into the 3D market, as well as promoting their immersive new desktop PC called…
Oculus Rift Delights Eventgoers at CES 2016; Promises Delivery of VR Headsets at $599 in March
Oculus Rift is seriously intense in every way. Not only is it an enormous business enterprise on its own, acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, but this virtual…
Teen Clock Maker Receives 3D Printer & More in Techno Goody Bag as Support from Microsoft
You never know what a Monday morning will bring–as in the case last week when one rather precocious kid took his basement-built clock into a Texas classroom to impress a teacher. His…
Microsoft & netfabb Partner Further for Commercial Platform Offering 3D Printing Cloud Services
As 3D printing has made more than a splash in the tech market, many have been curious to see how the big guns of the industry would approach the new…
Dutch Props 3D Prints a Semi-Functional ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ Assault Rifle – To Debut at Gamescom
Since 2001, it’s hard to argue that that any video game franchise has been quite as popular and successful for Xbox as that of Halo. The first-person, science fiction shooter…
Autodesk & Microsoft Partner — Integrate Spark 3D Printing Platform into Windows 10
Clearly the CAD software giant, Autodesk views 3D printing as a major part of their business plan moving forward. Not only have they integrated 3D printing into several of their…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — July 11, 2015
This week’s news contains many cool 3D printed items, beginning with a surreal and funky Leapfrog printed Octomadness zoetrope. Then we move onto “artifacts” made by injecting resin into sand,…
Here’s Last Month’s Most Downloaded 3D Printable Models From SketchFab
A 3D model website with over 200,000 different models, Sketchfab is becoming more popular for companies and individuals looking for 3D printable content. This is Sketchfab’s most popular, downloadable, 3D…
3MF Consortium Gains 4 New Members — 3D Systems, Stratasys, Materialise & Siemens PLM
At the end of April, Microsoft announced a major move within the 3D printing space, the 3MF Consortium, in an effort to push the newly revised 3D printing file format…
MIT Technology Review: Voxel8 & 3D Systems Make the Cut in List of ‘50 Smartest Companies’
In our line of work, the MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies is one of those delicious lists we get to take a little breather for, to immerse ourselves in,…
Microsoft Issued Patent for 3D Depth Scanning Camera & Software — May Accelerate 3D Design & Printing Exponentially
It’s certainly not a shock to see that Microsoft has been working overtime behind the scenes to take over the 3D design world. The only surprise is that it took the…
Sketchfab’s Top 3D Printable Downloads for May
Sketchfab is a 3D model website that has over 200,000 different models listed on it. Because of its wide selection, companies and individuals are looking to it more and more…
Microsoft & CGTrader Team Up For 3D Builder Test Model Challenge
CGTrader.com, a 3D content marketplace, is teaming up with Microsoft for a 3D modeling contest open to the 180,000 member CGT designer community which offers a Microsoft Surface Pro 3…
From Children to NASA Astronauts: Microsoft & Autodesk Just Blew the Cover Off of 3D Printing With 3MF
Imagine one day your kindergartener comes home from school, logs onto your a computer and literally within minutes begins 3D printing a toy that his friend emailed to him 5…
Microsoft Unleashes the 3MF File Format for 3D Printing, Launches 3MF Consortium
It’s been a long five days since we initially broke the news that Microsoft would be unveiling details about a new 3D Printing Consortium as well as file format which…
Microsoft, HP & Others About to Upend the 3D Printing Space Via New File Format
It was only a matter of time before some of the larger software and tech companies entered the 3D printing space. That time seems to be now. Last week, during 3D…
Microsoft Unleashes a 3D Printed Yo-yo Collection – Download and 3D Print Yours Today!
The Yo-yo is a toy that dates back thousands of years. While documentation dates this toy back to 500 BC in Greece, historians believe that the Yo-yo really originated even…
3 Likely Acquisition Targets Within the 3D Printing Industry
Over the last 18 months we have seen more acquisitions within the 3D printing space than we had likely witnessed over the previous 5 years combined. Competition and fear of…
