Autodesk acquires Allpoint for 3D LIDAR expertise

Jan. 31 | The founder and key researchers will join Autodesk’s Reality Capture team. The technology they bring has its roots in computer vision and robotics research. Autodesk today acquired technology and key employees from Allpoint Systems LLC, a Pittsburgh...

Redefining production in the age of Digital Reality

May. 17 | Software is transforming every stage of the manufacturing process. Small companies with niche technologies are being gobbled up. By Kathleen Maher May Day is over and the workers of the world are still pretty much wearing their chains. Ironically, the...

3D laser map shows earthquake zone before and after

Feb. 13 | High-res LIDAR scans reveal previously undiscovered relationships between smaller faults. Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it’s giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave....

MIT team invents cheap way to add 3D cameras to cellphones

Jan. 6 | A one-pixel pulse is tricked into decoding 3D data. Qualcomm is taking a close look. [Editor’s Note: A video explaining the technology in more detail appears at the end of the article.] “]Depth-sensing cameras can produce 'depth maps'...

Modding the Xbox Kinect to gather 3D streaming data

Aug. 3 | In less than a year after its release, a flood of researchers and tinkerers are finding ways to re-purpose the Kinect that have nothing to do with games. Two UCSD researchers are adapting the inexpensive and popular motion sensor to gather archaeological...