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U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines
Lucas123 writes Walmart-owned ASDA supermarkets in the U.K. are beta testing 3D full-body scanning booths that allow patrons to buy 6-in to 9-in high "selfie" figurines. Artec Group, a maker of 3D scanners and software, said its Shapify Booth, which can scan your entire body in 12 seconds and use the resulting file to create a full-color 3D printed model, is making its U.S. debut this week. The 3D Shapify booths are equipped with four wide view, high-resolution scanners, which rotate around the person to scan every angle. Artec claims the high-powered scan and precision printing is able to capture even the smallest details, down to the wrinkles on clothes. The scanning process generates 700 captured surfaces, which are automatically stitched together to produce an electronic file ready for 3D printing. Artec offers to print the figurines for booth operators (retailers) for $50 for a 6-in model, $70 for a 7.5-in model, and $100 for a 9-in figurine.
Why is that allowed?
Does it print *naked* figurines?
This has already been a thing here for several months here in the states at anime / gaming / sci-fi cons, mostly targeted at cosplayers. Kinda cool... kinda creepy... kinda indifferent about it, I guess?
get to edit the image before printing?
We had a high resolution, full-body scanner at work that was being used to build a database of body shapes. I volunteered but was rather dismayed when I loaded the 3-d model to see what shape I really am ...
oh wait...
Voodoo doctors are salivating over the possibilities...
Table-ized A.I.
Those are not quotes ... which is funny because I don't know what "naked" means. I'm going to get naked but not really because of the flesh colored underwear.
Asterisks imply *emphasis* not quotes.
While most users will be more or less what they expect, they will likely have more than a few nudes. So far, no big deal, but I'll bet they won't all be over 18.
Sorry, you can only subtract things, not add to them.
Table-ized A.I.
Would I be able to surprise mi SO with a special toy made in my full body shape. I wouldn't need sharp edges, a soft material would better suit the purpose and no toxins should be freed on body contact -especially with the mucus membranes.
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We had this at ASDA in mid July and it was reported in the UK press and media from last October http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/get-your-own-in-action-figure-at-your-local-asda-3d-printing-station-1188006
Keep up.
Since you get scanned, go do your shopping, then collect and pay at the till, you'd have to be stupid or shameless to try and get a nude figurine, even assuming the scanning booth operator didn't object to you stripping down to your birthday suit in full view in the supermarket.
If it didn't end in arrest for public indecency, it is very unlikely you'd be allowed to purchase the figure.
So you're going to be "naked"?
Many of us boycott ASDA anyway, since it's Walmart. Waitrose provides good food and pays its staff. And no, I don't work for Waitrose.
On y va, qui mal y pense!
in our narcissistic society.
Really, it puts "selfie-sticks" to shame.
Now, if you'll excuse me I need to search for my recent slashdot posts to admire them again.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
>>Artec Group, a maker of 3D scanners and software, said its Shapify Booth, which can scan your entire body in 12 seconds and use the resulting file to create a full-color 3D printed model, is making its U.S. debut this week.
>>The 3D Shapify booths are equipped with four wide view, high-resolution scanners, which rotate around the person to scan every angle.
It's the US, you better fucking hope they're wide view!
walmart stores have so many fucking cameras, including for facial recognition now.... they should have enough data to print just about any of their customers.
And what's the *emphasis* equivalent of air quotes? Jazz hands? ...*Naked*....*\o/*
hmmm....what if I just want a, um, "figurine" of just a specific part of my body?
I could not care less about selfie action figurines. But it would be cool to have a 3d scanning facility for people and smaller objects. I could get models for sauerbraten gaming, blender, etc.
if wearing a t-shirt or other item of clothing with a copyrighted or trademarked item/logo?
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Is there enough material out there for a 3D JLaw reconstruction?
Ah, but you certainly sound "hip" and "cool" when discussing technology merely in the context of inane teenage habits.
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You could use unicode but, it looks like the Unicode 7 standard missed the opportunity to add air quotes emoticons
I always thought it would be nice to have some kind of publicly accessible 3d scanner to get a standardized model of your body and use it to buy clothing online to make sure stuff fits properly. It would save time and reduce returns.
have one of these.
No doubt there will be a brisk trade in copied files of some of the cuties who will use the booth to make anatomically perfect dolls of themselves.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
They had one of these set up at a electronics chain in Sweden a couple of weeks ago. Price ranges from I think 300-700 SEK (about 50-100 USD) for the figurines. this scanner was in an open area (no enclosed booth) and I saw no one use it, but all the figurines on display were of employees so I would assume it works pretty well.
Fun idea.
You must be a dude. Women's clothes are generally not labeled by measurements but by a non-dimensional number which means almost nothing from brand to brand, and even from year to year. To wit:a young women's clothing store near me recently changed all their sizes. Everything changed by one value (what used to be and 8 is now labeled as a 6). They even had convenient "conversion" charts in the store listing the "old" size, and then a column with the "new" size, exactly one size smaller.
Men's clothes are less variable, especially with pants (though different styles do vary by 2-4 inches in actual measurement/fit). However; shirts are notoriously inaccurate, and a full size difference (M-L or L-XL) is common between manufacturers.
For online shopping, if the vendors could accurately identify the fit (doubtful), it would make for a lot less guesswork.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Truly, 3D printing has changed the game forever and we are now truly an intergalactic post-scarcity society. Awesome! 3D printing has changed our lives forever!
I wouldn't mind a time when shops had this and could use it to print (or, somewhat more old-fashioned: sew) clothes THAT ACTUALLY FIT. For some or other reason I have a hard time to find clothes that are long enough around the legs, arms, and body, not too tight around the shoulders and a little less tent-like around the waist. No, I'm not exceptionally tall and I also do not have a body builder upper body. Just dislike the Made In China (for Americans, presumably) stuff sold where I live.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
the Pound sinks to parity with the US Dollar. Seeing as the Pound can currently buy 1.6 US Dollars, that might not be anytime soon. In addition, given that there are 1.26 Euros to the Pound, we're more likely to align with the Euro. *gulp*
I don't know which would be considered worse, subsuming the Pound into either the Dollar or the Euro. I imagine that the Dollar would be preferred over a pocketful of Strasborgian counters, but we'd have to see a couple of squadrons of Gloucester Old Spots doing aerobatics at Farnborough before either happened!
The direct value add here should be that they keep your bodyshape in the cloud and you can reference it during online clothes shopping (or bike frame shopping) so that the site selling jeans etc can send you the right size. The indirect value add is that they keep anonymised copies of every scan to build a database of what size patrons actually are (and sell the data to people designing clothes). You could launch a business where you scan people for free, and charge online merchants a fee to access the profile when suggesting clothes for sale. I could see high price gyms doing you before and after scans as part of the "6 weeks with a personal trainer" package. And yes (though it horrifies me) I could see people one day linking to their 3d model (rather than a photo) in online dating profiles. I'm sure you'll be able to stitch an actual face photo onto the 3d model. People will add their own bodies into first person games. I could see eventually a self service booth that scanned you monthly and gave you targeted health / exercise advice entirely without human intervention. I'd use that, if I had guarantees of data security. ("Do more situps !"). Police mugshots would be 3d eventually, allowing better matches with CCTV and Thermal CCTV Airlines could decide in advance how to balance the plane / assign legroom based on passenger dimensions Automakers could supply personalised foam seat inserts You could do tuxedo rental by post, no high street premises needed. What fun this will be.....l Keep your eyes open for when it comes to Facebook - the new "share my body" option box will be checked by default, I bet...
I'd consider buying a figurine of my partner and me hugging if my partner wouldn't find it too weird.
Could also put it on the wedding cake instead of the generic figurine they put there.
How the hell is this considered a "selfie"?
Because this will be its biggest consumer market. Just imagine: I can surround myself with icons of the glorious figure that is me, and they will make great gifts (suitable for worship) for all of my friends and followers as well. And who on this Earth wouldn't be interested in an ultra-realistic 3-D model of what I ate for lunch? You could almost recreate the experience of what it is like to be me, looking at my lunch.
Sorry, you can only subtract things, not add to them.
Wouldn't that be "subtractive manufacturing"?
Would you know if they have the t-ray naked scanners like they have at the airport?
Then the owners could print you out in whatever they want.
The selfie being an evident sign of narcissism, isn't a 3D selfie a thing of hypernarcissism? Why would I want a figurine 3D of myself?!? #WTF
If you're fat enough, that's not really a problem.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Presumably the taller models costs more due to the extra material involved. Shouldn't the price also therefore be varied by waste size? A 6 inch figure of a super model will use a lot less plastic than a 6 inch figurine of my manly figure.
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Without that, what's the point :-) .
Go ahead, make some Rule34 versions of what "bobbles" you want to get.
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Next news story on this will be that someone has hacked the computer and stolen the 3-D figure of Jennifer Lawrence's naked body, and she will be very upset, and the plans will fetch $5,000 on the dark web. You just wait.
Of course, there are lots of salacious possibilities, but also a lot of quite ordinary.
It would be cool to have something like this of my wife and I or my family every few years.
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Pricing was adjusted for the average spherical human.
Sounds like a great way to get bio-metric data on costumers and have them pay for it... That being said, I'd buy a figurine of myself :)
I was at an event last weekend that had a photo booth. Before using it, you had to sign a waiver letting them use the photo for whatever they want.
Who owns the scan of you in this case?
Oh this one will drive the conspiracy nuts wild! After that scanner is finished, where does the data go? Is it deleted, is it stored, shared? Oh the possibilities with that data...
Who ends up owning the digital rights to your 3D image and how will it be used in the future?
... at its finest.
Are naked selfies allowed?
Anyone remember the Magic the Gathering card "Avatar of You" from unhinged? :D But seriously, I totally need a D&D miniature of myself. Unfortunately, 6 inches is far too large to fit on the 1x1 grid. I think that was a bit of an oversight but maybe the resolution of the 3D printer wasn't good enough.
Why should this be modded down? You wouldn't like it if anyone shoved their religion down your throats, so why is it acceptable to shove your metric system down everybody else's?
Now fuck off.
a gym. If you're unhappy with your shape at a supermarket, you'll probably buy less, but at a gym they can be all "we'll get you into the shape you WANT to be!"