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Epic Games’ RealityScan app now available for the iPhone and iPad, allows for easy creation of 3D models

Following up on our previous article from this past April, Epic Games has just released its RealityScan app, which allows users to scan objects and turn them into high-fidelity 3D models using their iPhone or iPad camera. The app was built with technologies from Capturing Reality, a company specializing in photogrammetry solutions acquired by Epic […]

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Apple begins testing expanded Apple Maps functionality in France, Monaco, and New Zealand

Following up on its WWDC 2020 announcement stating it would bring improved Apple Maps to additional countries, Apple has begun testing of more detailed maps, which are now available in France, Monaco, and New Zealand. Users in the territories can see more detail and better renders of 3D objects in Apple Maps. Elements such as […]

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Initial plastic molds of first-gen iPod prototypes shown

This in inarguably cool. Author, investor, and all-around tinkerer Tony Fadell has posted an extremely cool tweet showing the prototypes for the first iPods, which were printed around May or June of 2001. The units were 3D-printed and offered an idea as to what the engineers could expect to work with and what the users […]

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Epic Games announces RealityScan app beta, which allows users to use their iPhone camera to turn objects into 3D models

This could be incredibly cool once it’s out of beta. Epic Games on Monday announced its new “RealityScan” app, which will allow people to use their iPhone camera to scan objects and turn them into high-fidelity 3D models. The app, which is currently in beta, was developing using properties from Capturing Reality, a photogrammetry company […]

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YouTube DIYer posts video, detailed guide as to how to make the M1 Mac mini 78 percent smaller

Apple’s smallest desktop Mac just got 78 percent smaller thanks to the efforts of a YouTube DIY guru. The M1 Mac mini, which debuted in November 2020, has retained the same unibody design that Apple has used since 2010. Subsequent teardowns revealed that the ‌M1‌ ‌Mac mini‌ contains a very large amount of empty space […]