3D Technology

Coverage of 3D scanning, modeling, and reality capture across the built and natural environment, from point clouds and photogrammetry to digital twins and the platforms behind them.

Latest Articles

FARO Acquires Low-Cost Mobile AR Tech

DJI to Sell Drone Packages with Bentley’s ContextCapture

Trimble Takes Aim at Mixed-Reality’s Biggest Problem

Velodyne Announces $50 Solid-State Lidar, Plans for a Solid-State Puck

Occipital’s Mixed-Reality Headset Could Be the Real Deal

Magic Leap’s Mixed-Reality Revolution Could be Pure Hype

NaviPack: $300 LiDAR for Plug and Play SLAM

3DR Site Scan adds Control Points, Construction Tracking

LiDAR/Radar Hybrid Said to Offer 50x the Performance of LiDAR Alone

HoloLens, Mining, and a 3D-Data Revolution

New Immersive 3D App is a PowerPoint for VR

App Offers Scan to CAD from a $350 3D Sensor

Meet Leica’s $16k LiDAR Scanner, the BLK360

Osram Teases $50 Automotive LiDAR

SketchUp Takes the Leap to HoloLens

Trimble Acquires Building Data to Shore up BIM Offerings

This Book Wants Your Most Beautiful Point Clouds

Matterport Could be the Company to Democratize 3D Capture

Bentley and Topcon are Connecting Cloud Services

ContextCapture Now Processes Point Clouds

Hangar Lands $6.5M to Automate UAV Data Capture Completely

Microsoft Announces $299 VR Headsets, Lots of 3D Windows Features

PhoDAR vs. LiDAR–Is this new technology a giant killer? 

Autodesk LIVE Now Publishes Revit Models to Virtual Reality

NEXUS 800 is a Turnkey UAV for LiDAR and Photogrammetry

NOAA Offers LiDAR Coastal Mapping 101

iSTAR Camera Now Integrates with LFM, Pointcab, Pix4D

Optech Doubles its Mobile LiDAR Speed with new Lynx

Teledyne Optech Updates ALTM Galaxy Wide-Area LiDAR Mapper, Increases Efficiency

DotProduct and Elysium Put Automatic Feature Extraction on the DPI-8