University of California, San Diego students preparing for a future archaeological dig to Jordan will likely pack a Microsoft Kinect, but it won’t be used for post-dig, all-night gaming marathons.

That is the very mission that Mario Lukas set out to do, to build a handheld 3D scanner made from affordable off shelf components, like, say, a Microsoft Kinect and the latest Raspberry Pi 2.

Demonstrating this is [Parker Reed]’s experiment in 3D scanning his kitchen with a Kinect and Steam Deck combo, and viewing the resulting mesh on the Steam Deck.

What if you could take a cheap 3D sensor like a Kinect and increase its effectiveness by three orders of magnitude? The Kinect is great, of course, but it does have a limited resolution. To augment… ...

A proof of concept prototype handheld 3D scanner has been created by Mario Lukas, using a Microsoft Xbox Kinect motion sensor and the small single board Raspberry Pi mini PC. The Raspberry Pi ...

MIT's Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which ...

Star Wars Kinect aside, Microsoft wants to remind you that its motion control hardware isn't all play; the company has finally announced the eleven finalists of its Kinect Accelerator program ...

Although still a work in process, the early results of the 3D room-scanning tool are impressive. Burrus rotated the Kinect 360 degrees around our demonstration room (a small office room in ...

Rather than using lasers like many other 3D scanners, Fraunhofer's device functions more like Microsoft's Kinect, projecting an invisible near-infrared pattern onto whatever it's scanning.