{"id":4271,"date":"2015-08-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/inside_microsoft_research\/2015\/08\/24\/mobilefusion-research-project-turns-regular-mobile-phone-into-3d-scanner\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:33:06","slug":"mobilefusion-research-project-turns-regular-mobile-phone-into-3d-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-cm-edgedigital.pages.dev\/en-us\/research\/blog\/mobilefusion-research-project-turns-regular-mobile-phone-into-3d-scanner\/","title":{"rendered":"MobileFusion: Research project turns regular mobile phone into 3D scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Allison Linn, Senior Writer, Microsoft Research<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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A new Microsoft Research project lets people to create high-quality 3D images in real time, using a regular mobile phone, with about the same effort it takes to snap a picture or capture a video.<\/p>\n

“What this system effectively allows us to do is to take something similar to a picture, but it’s a full 3D object,” said Peter Ondruska (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a Ph.D. candidate at Oxford University who worked on the project while he was an intern at Microsoft Research.<\/p>\n

The researchers say the system, called MobileFusion (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, is better than other methods for 3D scanning with a mobile device because it doesn’t need any extra hardware, or even an Internet connection, to work. That means scientists in remote locations or hikers deep in the woods can capture their surroundings using a regular cell phone without a Wi-Fi connection.<\/p>\n