Your iPhone's 3D scanner is impressive, but it's not even close to a dedicated scanner ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Apple’s FaceID system uses infrared depth-sensing technology to authenticate people via their faces. It can also be used for simple 3D scanning, and [Scott Yu-Jan] found a better way to do that. The ...

Test setup: An iPhone 17 Pro with Polycam and a $759 Creality Otter Lite scanned the same model for a print comparison. Key findings: The Otter Lite produced near-identical replicas with intricate ...

Maybe you’ve already heard of Seene, the free iPhone-only app released earlier this fall that creates 3D images without any additional hardware. The app just received a mega-update today, allowing ...

A major new feature in this fall’s iPhone 12 is rumored to be a LiDAR scanner. A concept artist created a series of images showing what this change might look like. This scanner would enable the next ...