For creating 3D printer files, your options include smartphone apps or expensive standalone scanners.

Capture is a new iPhone app created by the Y Combinator-backed startup Standard Cyborg. By leveraging the sensors and cameras in Apple’s newest smartphones, it allows anyone to perform 3D scans ...

Got something you want to scan in 3D? It turns out you can use your iPhone with apps like Qlone, Scandy Pro, and Polycam, without any special hardware.

Capture, an iPhone 3D scanner app, hints at the future of augmented reality The 'Capture' app is far from perfect, but it may be a rough draft of features to come. By Leif Johnson ...

Autodesk's 123D Catch, which that lets you scan a 3D object from your iPad, PC or Web browser, is now available on the iPhone.

Epic Games official application 'RealityScan' that can 3D scan real objects using iPhone for free has been released, so I tried using it ...

House-scanning app Canvas works with lidar on the iPhone 12 Pro, but also scans without it. The difference is accuracy.

The PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its developers mostly just want people ...

Scanning a space with lidar, which uses very fast pulses of laser light to build a topographical map, is typically 100 times faster than the traditional method: photogrammetry. Photogrammetry, on ...

Face-scanning tech is faster, more secure, less prone to annoyingly not working when you really need to log into your iPhone right now dammit.

Trimensional, from Grant Schindler, is a 3D scanner for your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch (requires front-facing camera). It detects patterns of light reflected off your face to build a true 3D model.