{"id":6530,"date":"2013-09-19T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/this-amazing-accessory-turns-your-ipad-into-a-3-d-scanner\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:17:53","slug":"this-amazing-accessory-turns-your-ipad-into-a-3-d-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/this-amazing-accessory-turns-your-ipad-into-a-3-d-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns Your iPad Into a 3-D Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li id=\"description-243631\">The Structure Sensor is a new 3-D Scanning accessory for iPads created by Occipital, makers of the Red Laser bar code scanner and 360 Panorama app.<em>Photo: Occipital<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When most people play with a Kinect, the best they can hope for is a high score in\u00a0<em>Dance Central<\/em>. When\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occipital.com\/\">Occipital<\/a>\u00a0CEO Jeff Powers saw Microsoft\u2019s innovative sensor package for the first time he decided to change the direction of his company and got to work developing the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/structure.io\/\">Structure Sensor<\/a>, a new 3-D scanning tool that earned the company over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/occipital\/structure-sensor-capture-the-world-in-3d\">$250,000 in a single day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Product designers can use their iPads and Occipital\u2019s anodized aluminum add-on to scan objects and create 3-D models suitable for a MakerBot. Realtors can take advantage of its depth sensors to capture the dimensions of a room and create a 360-degree panoramic photo that can be embedded in a listing. Gamers will be able to use the slick sensor to play a bevy of games built on top of the Structure\u2019s open API. More than a cool gadget, the team at Occipital hopes to create a platform that will give smartphones and tablets a new set of super powers. \u201cEverything about the Structure Sensor is designed to enable new software applications and optimize the user experience,\u201d says Powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Structure Sensor is a new 3-D Scanning accessory for iPads created by Occipital, makers of the Red Laser bar code scanner and 360 Panorama app.Photo: Occipital When most people play with a Kinect, the best they can hope for is a high score in\u00a0Dance Central. When\u00a0Occipital\u00a0CEO Jeff Powers saw Microsoft\u2019s innovative sensor package for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iscan3d.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}