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Microsoft Researchers Generate 3D Models From Ordinary Smartphones

Posted by timothy on from the full-size-model-of-earth dept.

New submitter subh_arya writes: Engineers from Microsoft Research have unveiled the first technology to perform 3D surface reconstruction from ordinary smartphone cameras. Their computational framework creates a connected 3D surface model by continuously registering RGB input to an incrementally built 3D model. Although the reconstruction results look promising, Microsoft does not plan to release an app anytime soon.

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  1. 123D Catch? Autodesk already has an app doing this by gmezero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is this news? I'm already doing this on my Android phone with 123D Catch and it's available for iOS and Windows Phone as well. You can find more about it here.

    http://www.123dapp.com/catch