Structure Sensor is a clip on accessory for iPad that's designed to let you 3D scan objects, play augmented reality games and build a digital manipulable model of a room, complete with measurements.

Last year, California-based Occipital closed out a wildly successful Kickstarter for its Structure Sensor, an iPad-mountable structured light scanner that can perceive the world in three dimensions by ...

At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Occipital showed off its Structure mobile depth sensor that attaches to the back of an iPad to capture a 3D model of whatever is in front of it, including ...

With the explosion of desktop 3D printers, there seems little doubt that the next big land grab is the world of 3D scanning. Microsoft's Kinect has taken us a few steps closer to mainstreaming the ...

An Occipital Structure Sensor body scan in progress. (Photo via Occipital PR library). I’m standing on the rear cargo door of a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet, just as Captain America did before his famous leap ...

Just a few years ago, 3D scanning seemed like something straight out of a science fiction novel. Today, 3D-printed fashion is already walking down the runway. The Structure Sensor by Occipital, which ...

The Structure Sensor is a 3D sensor that, when yoked to an iPad, can scan in 3D with existing apps. It has great potential for 3D mapping and gaming. Occipital bills its Structure Sensor ($379) as the ...

When most people play with a Kinect, the best they can hope for is a high score in Dance Central. When Occipital CEO Jeff Powers saw Microsoft's innovative sensor package for the first time he decided ...

The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 ...

Augmented reality startup Occipital first burst on the scene in 2013 with a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Structure Sensor — a strip of cameras and sensors you strap to your iPad that can be ...

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