Remember how Apple unveiled its $1,000 iPhone X with facial recognition software that allows you to unlock your phone with your face? Well good news, people who don’t have enough to worry about in the ...

Three-dimensional recreations of people’s faces used to require expensive, dedicated scanners, but now you can do it with a smartphone. Simon Lucey and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in ...

What if you could take a simple 2D image—a sketch, a logo, or even a photograph—and transform it into a fully realized 3D model, ready for 3D printing or digital design? For years, this process ...

The process of creating 3D models from 2D images has traditionally been associated with expensive software and advanced technical skills. However, Trellis, a free AI-powered tool, has transformed this ...

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to capture all angles and stitch it ...

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The highest rock wall in the Alps—the Monte Rosa East Face on the border between Italy and Switzerland—has for the first time ...