Innovation at home: Inside a 3-D desktop scanner

As Hollywood embraces 3-D technology, so do the major HDTV manufacturers. As content makes its way from the big screen to the living room, TV manufacturers, such as Sony and Samsung among others, are fully invested in supplying the market with a variety of 3-D-ready high-definition television sets. 

At UBM TechInsights, we decided to deconstruct the Samsung UN46C70003D HDTV to reveal and better understand the latest technology these manufacturers are leveraging to bring 3-D media into our homes.

At $2,995, the NextEngine 3D Scanner is touted as the “World’s most popular 3-D scanner, with thousands of users in over 80 countries.” Claiming to be one-tenth the price of competing scanners, the dictionary-sized NextEngine 3D Scanner provides the same capability of more expensive scanners by creating mesh files of three-dimensional objects for applications such as industrial design, reverse engineering, CGI (computer-generated imagery) content creation for animated videos, art reproduction and orthotics and prosthetics design and manufacture.

UBM TechInsights demonstrated similar technology when we did a 3-D scan of the iPhone 4.