About 3D Scanning Services
Virtualia Interactive Technologies
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This article is part of our series on 3D services.
The world in which we live is getting more advanced in the technological world with every passing day. The development of every single product and numerous technologies are on the journey to play some role in our lives, making our lives more tech dependent than before. Virtual reality, augmented reality and virtual worlds are the next big thing to have a concrete application in the consumer market, by 2030 or earlier.
To make it happen companies like us propose 3D scanning services. But what are those??3D?scanning?software can assist you in representing the three-dimensional structure of a product, starting from zero. If you are a little interested in 3D methods, you must be curious about how it works and the tools.
This article is a quick guide, in the learning journey to discover 3D Scanning. Read the details given below and grasp our 3D Scanning services.
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What Is 3D Scanning??
3D scanning is a?process of using optical technology to apprehend data to reconstruct complex shapes. It analyzes an object from the real world, assembling the data to refurbish its shape and appearance. A 3D scanner holds an optical projection or structured light and one or more cameras to scan the object digitally.
Undoubtedly, 3D scanning scans an object as a 3D model for the 3D project you are working on, helping you stimulate new experiences with the 3D model as you can rotate and view it on different angles. These scanners can make point clouds on the object, measuring the exact shape and size of the real object in the virtual world. In addition, presenting a massive description of fine details, inspecting contoured surfaces, overviewing complex geometries, and capturing free-form objects are other tasks that this scanner can perform.
Virtualia 3D Scanning Services
Virtualia Interactive Technologies, a startup specialized in 3DVRAR services, manages to provide advanced services like?3D?scanning. We are offering the best features we can find in the market to captivate our customer' clients. We are specialized in virtual brand marketing and 3.0 ecommerce. In fact we are the first to showcase the full concept of 3.0 ecommerce in practice. [Read our next incoming series on virtual shopping.]
We use visual effects, scanning details such as hotspots and hyperlinks to create interactivity, and the results are remarkable, producing the final experience clients are looking for.
Here is a link to a first-star Michelin meal from Roberto Fani in Luxembourg.
Hotspots can be added to show ingredients, stories, videos. Above model is done with a fast process and equipment (15 min). More complex settings are possible (but x10 times more expensive and x10 times longer).
Our services are for shop owners, ecommerce websites, restaurants, bars, small businesses that make the real economy.
Virtualia?has foregathered the tool kits and equipment to use the best of them when required. Our team aims to offer services with instruments and techniques that are premium. The above meal was photoshooted in few minutes with a standard equipment but even with a limited equipment we are able to provide culinary art in 3D.
Techniques in 3D Product Scanning
3D product scanning uses several techniques to give the outcomes, depending on the type and detail requirements. Below are the details of techniques of the procedures that can come into use for 3D Product Scanning.
Laser 3D Scanning is the most common technique used for scanning the product. Laser light gives the digital representation of the object from the real world. The camera capturing the virtual version of the object gives the most delicate measurement details for the free-shaped objects. For complex inspections, using laser technology is a perfect choice, as traditional methods are not capable of responding in such a way. However for transparent object, this become an issue. They are not that good at far-range objects too.
The time-of-flight technology uses laser as well. The scanner computes distance between the laser entry and the object by sending beams. We rotate around the object and the software recomputes the 3D model. Most recent mobiles use LiDAR technology via 3D scanning apps to scan the environment such as a room or with drones external buildings.
In the Structured Light Scanning method, the camera present in previous techniques is replaced by a LCD projector that throws the light on different patterns. We also use on top two cameras on the sides. The object deflects the light coming from the projector, creating the product image on the screen. This technology is great for quick scan services but is sensitive to light and far distance objects are hard to capture.
Credits: https://www.opensourceimaging.org/project/structured-light-3d-scanner/
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3D Scanning Process
Every technique of 3D Scanning has its own workflow. The working of these methods is described below:
Working of Laser 3D Scanning:?
An object of choice that has to undergo laser scanning is placed on the digitizer. Particularized software helps the laser probe scan the object’s surface. The light from the laser device projects the laser line on the object to be scanned. As a result, sensor cameras perform their actions by recording the change in distance, recreating the object’s shape in three dimensions.
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Working of Photogrammetry:?
Photographic photos to be projected digitally are taken and imported into the photogrammetry software. The software scans the picture and aligns the data points, noting its size, angle, volume, etc. It gives the upshot of the 3D picture, able to form the polygonal mesh. Noting the dimensions from the photographs is not as simple as it looks. Using the technique of photogrammetry in work is a way to do so. This method takes the photographs’ parallax from several different frames of reference. We can obtain complex 2D and 3D fields from this approach to scanning products. To turn the picture into a 3D model, photogrammetry scans the volume, depth, and several sizes of the object.
With the photogrammetry technique it is difficult to capture part of objects that are smooth, flat, or have colored surface due to the lack of visual pattern to detect. Post production such as retopology may help correct the issue. If you can’t distort the object due to external constraints, 3D scanning is a better alternative.
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Virtual Clothes Fitting Service
Are you looking for the future of clothes design? Virtual Clothes Fitting will be probably a great tool by 2030. Virtualia Interactive Technologies invest in?Virtual Clothing Fitting?at this early stage to create new workflow and process automation between 3D software. Our service of the virtual fitting is an assemblage of many techniques. Modern time is putting forward the techniques and services that can change the customer journey in different situations. Virtual Clothes Fitting is one of them, giving the fashion industry a step forward. Our service’s features assist in taking the most accurate measurements and 3D visuals for the outcome. We give a helping hand to our clients in custom-tailoring the products as per the demands of their customers, to try on cloths depending on their body shape. The goal that forces us to offer this service is to reduce the number of return orders due to wrong sizes. Moreover, our Virtual Fitting facility can turn visitors to any clothing website into long-term happy clients because of up-to-mark results.
We also propose body scan services to improve the adoption of virtual cloth fitting in the fashion industry. Using avatar is the right way to get a consumer market for cloth fitting services rather than using augmented reality through a screen. 24Megapixel Nikon hardware, Agisoft PhotoScan and Pixologic zBrush software are a good combination of technologies for body scan by photogrammetry.
Figures: Examples of avatars (not body scanned)
Solve sizing and styling for your customers with Virtualia:?
Virtualia Interactive Technologies has taken a step up in bringing the real-world shopping experience online. By using these services, you can give an option to try on the desired product and confirm the sizes virtually to your customers by using their avatar or non-fungible-self with our body scan service. This service will give fashion commerces high engagement rate and will increase audience attraction to their online store, lowering product exchanges and returns.
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What is Digital Twin Technology?
Virtual representation of any physical form of the object, process, and service is the best definition that explains the term “Digital Twin Technology.” Digital replica of any real-world item Moreover, this replica can be of larger organizations like buildings or even a whole city. Digital twins can help create simulated worlds as we do with?VirtualiaWorlds?to get the perfect outcome. Programs like artificial intelligence and software analytics further enhance the quality of output as we do with?Virtualytics.?We use premium 3D cameras to produce our digital twins. They are used for many purposes. Learn more below.
Figure: Barrel organ scanned with an iPad Pro LiDAR camera in the Musée des Jouets, Montauban, France (autorisation granted, for those interested here the link of the 3d museum)
Benefits of Digital Twin Technology:?
Digital twins such as 3D scan models provided by Matterport help the real estate market selling more efficiently their property listed. With?Virtualytics?design studio, we propose more than 60 services to enhance those digital twins of real estate assets.
Figure: 3D live tours we are providing for real estate agencies
We scan everything and add those assets into our photorealistic?virtual worlds.
We scan stores and add a full interactivity with the products inside for better shopping experience, what we call 3.0 shopping experience. Thanks to 3DVRAR, products can be previewed at home, shared to your friends on social network or messaging systems, and viewable on all angles.
Digital Twin also plays a helping hand in deciding the matter of end-of-life of the product. After manufacturing, it gives you ideas on what to do with the product, like recycling by removing each part component virtually to visualise better what we do for each part.
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Conclusion
We use photogrammetry and 3D scanning as efficient technologies to capture real world objects and make 3D models for many sectors of the real economy such as retail commerce or the fashion industry.
3D scanning services such like 3D Scanning, Virtual Clothes Fitting and Digital Twin are on the way to becoming in trend to improve the product life and customer journey.?Virtualia Interactive Technologies?is offering these services to play its part in making the businesses more tech savvy. If you are a business interested to leverage those services, don’t hesitate to?contact us.