If your hardware is powerful enough for the task, rendering 3D objects isn't too difficult to do with Windows, a Kinect device and some free apps. One of the things that I have been noticing lately is ...

Today Sketchfab announced that it has added over 1600 public domain 3D models from the Smithsonian Institution and 25 other museums and cultural organizations. The Smithsonian Institution is ...

Turn photos into 3D with Meta's SAM 3D, using SAM 2 masks and Gaussian splatting, so you can build assets quickly for ...

Microsoft researchers claim to have devised an AI able to generate better 3D shapes from 2D images and to do so for the first time using off-the-shelf photo-realistic renderers like Unreal Engine and ...

Anyone who has played Minecraftfor a good amount of time should have a good grasp on making 3D objects by placing voxels block by block. A giant voxel art dragon behind your base is cool, but what ...

Roblox on Monday announced an early version of a 3D object generator, the first of several AI models the company plans to release. Why it matters: The tool could help creators develop new Roblox ...

Makerbot is in the gutter, 3D Systems and Stratasys stock is only a shadow of their 2014 glory, but this is the best year 3D printing has ever had. Machines are now good and cheap, there’s a variety ...

SAM 3 can segment objects via prompt. The AI model is fun as an editor, but also helpful for data labeling and essential for ...

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