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LEVIS, QUEBEC, Canada, Sep 16, 2009 – Creaform, developer and manufacturer of the Handyscan 3D line-up of handheld, self-positioning and portable laser scanners, is proud to present the UNIscan, the latest and most affordable addition to this family of revolutionary 3D scanners.

Handyscan 3D performance at half the price
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Z CORP has introduced a portable 3D laser scanner, the ZScanner 600 which extends Z Corp’s line of handheld, self-positioning scanners.
According to Z Corp, the 3D laser scanners are easier to use than traditional 3D scanners due to their portability. The 3D scanners are designed to streamline data capture for reverse engineering, product design and [...]

I was about to embark on finally fixing my homemade structured light implementation (created in a Computer Vision class), when I stumbled across this amazing site.
Recently at SIGGRAPH 2009 there was a course on 3D scanning with structured light. I wasn’t able to make SIGGRAPH this year because I was working at Walt Disney Imagineering, [...]

Washington, DC—The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will advance technology that can recover and digitally re-master rare early sound recordings made on wax cylinders – including experimental recordings created in the 1880’s by Alexander Graham Bell — even when the original cylinder is cracked or broken. The research project, which includes [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Nov 5, 2009 – (3DNewsWire.com) Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3D laser scanners for over 20 years, announced that Schneider Electric recently installed a Laser Design-FARO arm laser scanning system in its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. The system will be used for verifying plastic injection mold tooling prior to production runs.
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