The new Structure Sensor from startup company Occipital promises to convert iPads and iPhones into 3D scanners. The device, which launches today on Kickstarter, is designed to create accurate ...

Structure Sensor’s nervous system is a tiny infrared sensor made by PrimeSense—the ... realistic models, not only of humans, but of objects ... from creating a 3D model of ...

Canvas, the app running on the iPad, is used to quickly create a 3D model for an entire room.After starting the scan and walking around the room, the model is built in real time, with the hardware ...

At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Occipital showed off its Structure mobile depth sensor that attaches to the back of an iPad to capture a 3D model of whatever is in front of it ...

For more details about the new Object Capture API, check out the “Create 3D models with Object Capture” WWDC 2021 session. Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.

Apple said developers like Wayfair, Etsy and others are using Object Capture to create 3D models of real-world objects — an indication that online shopping is about to get a big AR upgrade.

The CLI700 reflective object sensor consists of an 880-nm aluminum-gallium-arsenide (AlGaAs) infrared emitter and an npn, buffered, open-collector IC. Both are mounted on a custom, four-leaded TO ...