ScanLAB Projects’ Astounding “Framerate: Pulse of The Earth” Immersive Installation

Poetic landscape-scale visualizations born from 3D scanning, set to debut in the immersive division of the 79th Venice International Film Festival

Making its world premiere in the Venice Immersive division of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, Framerate: Pulse of The Earth is a spatialized film told across multiple screens in one enveloping installation. Each scene knits together time-lapse footage captured through a LiDAR 3D scanning system by directors William Trossell and Matthew Shaw, the founders of the UK-based creative studio ScanLAB Projects. Framerate: Pulse of the Earth …

Augmented Reality on iOS Tablets with Occipital’s Structure Sensor

3D map, scan and enter a virtual world with this device

On 1 November 2013, Occipital received $1,290,440, by way of Kickstarter, to fund the production of their Structure Sensor. Functional models began shipment in June 2014 and ever since, the brand, its software and accompanying iOS app have been in further development—advancing a first-of-a-kind service. The small sensor clasps onto an array of iPad models and offers unprecedented 3D scanning and mapping for the masses. …

Sprout by HP

Computer interaction moves back to the drawing board

Human to computer interaction is ever-changing with an ironic (though welcomed) evolution to more natural interfaces. Sprout by HP, the latest case-in-point, has just been officially unveiled. Sprout is a touch-screen Windows PC that has a touch-sensitive mat and projection surface where you’d expect to see a keyboard. The technology packed into Sprout is significant, but the resulting interface is simple. The relationship between the …