Epic’s new RealityScan app can make 3D models from smartphone photos

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A woman uses her smartphone camera to scan a chair.

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Epic Games has announced a new smartphone app that can construct 3D models of objects from a series of smartphone photos. The idea is that you’ll be able to use the app, called RealityScan, to scan an object in the real world — say, a chair — and then bring the scan of that object into your game or project.

You can see how it works in the video at the top of this post, which features somebody scanning a brown chair, the result of which looks like a handcrafted 3D model. The app is currently available in a first-come, first-served beta via Apple’s TestFlight platform that will be open to 10,000 users.


I got into the RealityScan beta, and using the app is pretty straightforward. To take a series of photos, you can hold the capture...

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