Crowdpleaser: 3D scanner for iPad - Bright

With this ‘mobile Kinect’ scan your spaces and objects, which you can then send and print.

Another great Kickstarter success. The Structure Sensor pulled within one day 3 tons, exceeding three times its goal. Meanwhile, the amount had risen to $ 550,000 and there are still 42 days to go.

But what does the device? The Structure Sensor is a scanner that you click to your iPad. When scanning emits an invisible laser light from which you can scan.

objects from 40 centimeters to 3.5 meters

Founder Jeff Powers lists in the video the possibilities. You can scan areas, as well as models that you send to your phone and can call at any time. Handy if you stand at IKEA and want to know if fits the cabinet. You can scan objects it forward. Useful if your husband in the IKEA state and you can see if the cabinet nicely in the space. Using Augmented Reality You can play games “with the game world, the real world ‘. Handy if you need to IKEA with your parents. Then you what to do.

It is also an open platform, so there are opportunities abound. There is already flirted with the 3D glasses Oculus Rift.

The team includes technicians who were at the origin of the Kinect. The scanner works only through the new Lightning connection, so that at present only the iPad 4. It is sold as 349 dollars.

The question is how exactly it works. If it really as easy and good as the movie work, this invention brings the 3D scanning in a very attractive way to consumers.