The app, MobileFusion, uses a smartphone's hardware and RGB camera to take 3D scans -- a cheap and accessible way for most consumers to collect such images. Microsoft has produced earlier scanning ...

In early October, researchers will show off Microsoft's new MobileFusion technology, a project that enables an ordinary smartphone to serve as a 3D scanner. MobileFusion is notable for a number of ...

The practice of 3D printing may soon be a lot simpler. New technology from the Microsoft Research Lab allows 3D scanning to be done from your smartphone, with no additional hardware needed. Dubbed ...

The project, dubbed MobileFusion, turns mobile phones into 3D scanners using just their built-in cameras—no extra hardware, or even an Internet connection, required. The resulting scan is of high ...

If you want to do some 3D scanning, you usually have to get either a dedicated scanner or a less-than-elegant add-on. Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford think there's a better way, though ...

Who needs a Microsoft Kinect when your phone’s camera can do the job? Microsoft Research said Monday it’s working on a technology called MobileFusion for the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms ...

Microsoft’s Megan Saunders scans sandcastle before importing it as a 3D object into Windows 10 Creators Update. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Microsoft this morning unveiled its next refresh of Windows ...