In order to get a complete 3D scan, you must either move the Kinect sensor around the object that is being scanned, or place the object on a turn table. My computer wasn't fast enough to keep up ...

So they needed to scan a physical object, break its surface down into polygons, measure every line, and get that resulting data into their computers. To "scan" a 3D object, they needed two key ...

the computer is able to build a model of the whole object in the form of a histogram, which is a two-dimensional mapping of a three-dimensional shape. While a 3D map would provide more information ...