Surface normal is the angle relative to the camera. It uses the red, green, and blue channels to store x, y, and z axis information.

Man, thats so frigin amazing, we're living in awesome time.

That thing behind Norm is fun to watch and see it change.

Thank you, that saved me an unwarranted purchase. This is interesting, but definitely ruled out for the smaller objects that I want to reproduce.

I was just about to turn off when you showed the 'Room Capture' application, that is very cool ! When this gets into full swing it's going to be incredible !

It looks like the depth sensor resolution is limited, and that is causing the limited resolution on the model.

@14:21 lol!!! , Great review guys, cheers!

Hey, what cool light up cube in the background? :D

What's that cool led matrix in the background? That thing is amazing!

Anyone else get the Glass Age ad with Adam and Jamie before the video. I just did and I thought it was kinda funny/cool even watched the whole thing without skipping.

How can i use and ipad and structure and a drone to scan a large statue? what are the current updates? maybe a revisit.

If you want to continue testing this, I would suggest a build project to mount an iPad tripod mount on a camera dolly truck and then attach the dolly truck to the pedestal with a strong. This would allow you to keep a constant distance from the model in a perfect circle with repeatable process.

Tested @13:24 Bottom right image is a normal map! Each colour represents the direction a surface is facing in the world XYZ

Does anyone know where they got the light-box that's sitting on the table behind Norm, or know of a build guide is on how to make one (preferred). Thanks.

can you help with a full body photogrammetry scanning system...

Cool video, keep up the good work.

Video published on my birthday =)

I remember back in the day, in order to 3D Scan anything dark, you had to powder it in white flour or corn starch. That was more for those red laser based scanners though. Maybe that could help with this.

where did u get the portal turret?! please do a video!

What was the tool mentioned at the end? something like xray view... about the 20:50 mark

hey guys. This scanner is really cool. Is there a system that would allow for an instant scan, or allows for the subject to move? I'm looking to scan animal heads/faces, and they are a bit difficult to keep still for a scan. Something under $10k.

Can someone please provide the list of all the software that Jamie and Adam talked about ? Just want to make sure I got it all.

after the scan of a room..can you remove furniture...walls etc?

The surface normal would be the direction the surface is facing. You can see that the flat horizontal surfaces are all indigo, the ones facing the camera are light green, etc.

Wonder how long it will be before this is in Airports

This thing still Works with ipad air with IOS 11?

How about "Fuji FinePix Real 3d W3" camera for 3d scanning? Anyone knows on hand experience?

Can you comment on the different scanning options for a full body scan that can be printed on a 3D Systems 660: APPS, Photogrammetry/Laser full-body Booths, hand held... Thank You.

Are you going to review the Mark II version?

Was looking at these a few weeks ago, It would be awesome if I could just walk around and scan a building or room in more detail, If you didn't have to stand still with the room one I would buy one today.

Very cool

does anyone know why the scanner doesnt scan plaster of paris models very well. Is there a way to get the scanner to pick up the object better? He mentioned black and silver 'double wammy'?? WHY what is the negative with those two and is there a preferred colour?

Whit this item y can print in 3d a wherever object what doing scanned?

Such a shame that they never released this for the majority of people.

surface normal is generally used to describe how light interacts with a surface. when used in video games normal maps can be used to give the illusion of details so small that it would be labour intensive for the engine to render in real time if they were hard modelled in. in this instance they are being used to pick up textured surfaces to better define the scan. it's actually really neat that it's able to do that.

Why do all the portable 3D scanners I see only have the cameras along one axis? Is it too expensive to have a camera on a second axis? Like a triangle array?

spraying the black object with an aerosol of arid extra dry could possibly make the scanner pick up more detail. Afterwards the powder can be wiped off. Otherwise some one could use baby powder / corn starch for the same effect.

woo! tested!!

this is gonna be awesome for indi game devs, scan rooms and people to make meshes. on an ipad, for a reasonable cost. (this is very early but i cant wait to see where this goes, Standalone 3d scanners instead of apps)

Interesting video there, I wonder that is the structure scanner able to scan the whole human body from head to toe ?

So I want to scan my 7yo grandson who's about 4' tal then eventually 3D print small statue on my 3 D Printer? You're doing heads. How about full body scans?

What print is behind Norm? Eboy? Links?

I am increasingly interested in this technology to use in films. Imagine scanning an entire room filled with actors with a 3D scanning video camera. Creating scenes you can move a camera around freely in. Want a close up. Move the camera in.

Is it compatible with AutoCAD?

Does it works with iPhone ? I can not use it ! And I try with the pc and is not very easy

That's pretty neat

Spectacular! rifle mourn What's your opinion about

You guys really need to review the metric system. Your approximations are way off. Good video though.

I look forward to when we can do this real time for games, so we can interact with real people

Cool Theo Jansen tshirt!

4:58 AAAH! OH MY GOD! Wow! I didn't expect that! XD

Its cool but I want to see it inbuilt on a smartphone.

Can you guys please attach an iPad to a phantom and program it to fly around and fully scan something.

I didn't see anything usable

there is this awsome technic but you can´t turn a picture while editing? ;-D

Very Good for R/C Plane builder that use CNC technology.!! Thumbs up nice Gadget Guys.!!

These guys should help out on Mythbusters

it can be used to get alphas to use in zbrush.

"A third of a meter". You Americans are making the metric system cry right now! Definitely early days for this technology, and it won't spit out a usable final mesh, but it would be great for reference for large objects and rooms. Photogrammetry is probably still the better option for now, and it doesn't require additional hardware.

For what it is it's bloody amazing, a 3d scan in colour too ...... my ten year old self's head just exploded in the past.

I somehow expected more Jamie, still cool though.

Can you reduce the poly count for use in game design?

"A third of a meter"

I want to get into 3D scanning and someone tipped me this scanner, I'm siked that this review is now about 6 yaers old, curious how this evolved!

Umm "1/3 of a metre" , "3/4 of a metre" .. are those SI units?

You should consider running this again 5 years later with the new Mark II sensor. It doesn't seem like this has really taken off yet but maybe the time wasn't right in 2014-15

I want one of these so I can take a 3D scan of a giant valley and make it into a map on some sort of FPS game.

awesome

Cubify sense or Structure sensor which one is better? i dont care about the ipad requirement! just about the functionality and other things!

David Laser Scanner NEXT! PLEASEEE!!

Can this be used on other tablets, samsung tab s

If there were multiple cameras configured as CCTV in known positions and orientations

isn't it how kinect V1 works??

Normal would most probably pick up surface fine textures.

This is so awesome!! but creepy as well somehow ^^

Maltese Falcon!

Someone will put this on a drone and will do crazy stuff with it.

rotate by 90

another idea like 3d printing, 3d scanning is for better or worse a prototype tool. this being said an animator could have an idea and roughly block it out with shapes IrL and then scan it in then start working from there.

The scanner does a much better job if you run an aftermarket app called itseez3d (free). Also when you get to the print side (color), you really want to have stationary lights and a rotating object to limit shadows and post production. If ya wanna see Jamie in full color, send me the file!

Thumbnail suggested way more Jamie than there was. :-(

Amusing device.

3:46 - 3:48 ?

z-depth - heat map xD nice

If you put the device on a lazy suzan and kept the object still, it would know it's moving.

works best with empty rooms...sounds useful

Is there something similar that is not apple product?

looks like we still have a few haters thumbing down just for the sake of it, there is no real reason to thumb down this vid.

Norm seems irked that Will is stealing his thunder

Tablets? I thought it's just for 'I' devices? I like Skanekt, but their resolution capture could be better.

if i would use it the best current use commercially, i would pair this with a next gen version of oculus thats wireless, can see you hands and know were it is in a 3d environment that can detect real world movement that accurately moves in 3d space as you move IRL. i would 3d map the interior of houses for sale, take them to my mac clean them up make them look better, then put them back on an iPad. then when showing buyers around a house/Interior decoration i could give them a pair of vr goggles and they would be able to hold the iPad chose furniture, place and see it in front of them. and the customer could walk around the IRL house while being able to visually decide what colour paint they want the walls, match them with curtains and so on. (sidetone* with the advances of how pc's can handle light, you might even be able to tell how a paint will look like in the sun, rather than the matt paint or when its in the dark. often you will have no idea what a paint will look like in every environment until you have actually painted it.) you would even be able to scan the costumers current furniture and input it into the new house.

OMG it's the matrix

maybe u could use an kinnect.

Heat map? omg. one is a depth map the other is normal map

Wow, this is so not worth $500.

Great for cave mapping.

Create a 5 nights at Freddie's animatronic pls

You could probably paint a particularly shiny item with elmer's glue if you really needed to scan it. Might need to be willing to ruin it, but you know.

My xbox camera and skanect software seriously blow this thing away lol. I paid $25

"I scanned my wife"- Will Smith