The American company Occipital develops a 3D scanner for tablets and smartphones. The device can scan both objects and entire rooms in three dimensions.
Structure Sensor is a 3d scanner which operates similar to eg the Kinect. Unlike that device is the Structure Sensor not in a fixed place, but can be mounted on a tablet or smartphone.
In this way, the scanner can be used for scanning objects. The user only needs to walk around an object, an associated app then ensures that the object becomes lodged virtually. Well together The objects can then be scanned using a 3D printer printed again.
Rooms
the scanner entire rooms including dimensions precisely capture. Then turn. Possible scanned objects in the scanned room Also scanned objects are placed. Virtually through augmented reality in real spaces At that time, the camera of the tablet or smartphone.
The focus of the Structure Sensor spreads out from 40 inches and reaches 3.5 meters. The infrared lamps used by the scanner can be also used to film in the dark. Structure The sensor has a battery that lasts 4 hours in active use.
Open source
The scanner is initially developed for the iPad. That is, however mainly the mounting bracket from the unit. The Structure Sensor is open source, giving developers the device can use if they want exactly. The device comes with a lightning cable for iPad and a regular USB cable.
default the next iOS Structure Sensor also supported by Android, Windows, OS X and Linux. To show where the scanner is capable, developers have made four demo apps. This allows objects and rooms can be scanned and an augmented reality games are played.
Kickstarter
money to develop the Structure Sensor is collected by the authors through crowdfunding site
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