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Occipital & Lynx Join Forces to Make Portable 3D Scanning Even More Precise
Occipital is among the first, if not the first, firm to create a low-priced, portable 3D scanner. While an amazing Kickstarter campaign got their iPad/iPhone-powered Structure Sensor off the ground, a recent $13 million funding round, gave Occipital the cash to make their powerful device even better, through the acquisition of Lynx Laboratories. Lynx Laboratories launched a Kickstarter in 2013 for their own 3D scanning device and, with this acquisition, the two teams will be able to improve the algorithms that drive the Structure to improve it dramatically.
Photo by Danielle Matich.With Lynx having catered to the professional 3D scanning market for the past two years, the Structure will greatly expand its abilities in that capacity as the Lynx team moves into Occipital headquarters in Colorado. In an interview with The Verge, Occipital CEO Jeff Powers tells the tech site that the acquisition isn’t about improving the Structure’s resolution, but reducing the errors in depth mapping. With Lynx, the firm has already reduced depth map errors from 5 inches to 1/4 of an inch. Powers says, “It’s a big deal for the idea of mapping your entire home. Usually we’re limited to an object, or an artifact, or a person. But this tech really lets us blow that out to something like a room.”
Powers says that this improvement is just one development in a long track of progress that Occipital has made since the introduction of the Structure Sensor. “From the first time somebody had a Structure Sensor to what we can do with it now is just — you wouldn’t think it’s the same device. When we launched the structure sensor and people first received units they couldn’t even capture things in color,” Powers explains. Regular readers of 3DPI will recall that, on top of that, the actual color mapping itself has been improved. Moreover, Occipital has incorporated positional tracking algorithms to allow the device to be used for AR and VR.
The addition of Lynx to their team will only improve the algorithms the team is developing, with Powers saying, “With computer vision it’s as much about the algorithms as it is about the inputs.”
As I learned from the startup at CES 2014, Occipital is forging a bridge to a time when 3D scanning will be an omnipresent part of our computing experience. Developing the hardware and an accompanying 3D app ecosystem, the firm hopes to establish themselves as founders of the coming spatial computing world. The unveiling of Project Tango by Google and Intel clearly hints at a time when 3D sensors will be built into our devices and the upcoming release of the HoloLens and Oculus Rift will bring more widespread AR and VR to us in 2016. The exciting thing about the Structure, however, is that Occipital has begun implementing these technologies now, before these larger companies get to market.
Powers tells The Verge, “I think building it into smartphones is obviously going to be huge, but also building it into wearable devices is really going to be interesting, like VR and AR headsets. But it’s hard to say which will happen first.”
The new performance capabilities of the Structure will be debuted at CES, while current Structure owners will be able to receive a software update in early 2016. Just in time for the release of the aforementioned AR/VR headsets. However, with the Structure, quality 3D scanning and AR/VR will be made possible with devices folks may already own, like the most recent iPad and iPhone models. Either way, all of this points to 2016 as the year when the mixed reality ecosystem truly started to coalesce.
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Occipital, the maker of the Structure Sensor, has acquired a company called Lynx Laboratories, one that launched its own mobile 3D scanner on Kickstarter a few years ago. The Lynx staff will join Occipital at its headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. But more importantly, Occipital now has access to algorithms developed by Lynx that make 3D depth mapping far more accurate than ever before — algorithms that will make the Structure Sensor even better.
Lynx's IP won't increase the resolution of the Structure Sensor, but it cuts back on the sensor mapping errors by up to 90 percent. Occipital says that initial tests reduced the error of its 3D depth maps from 5 inches down to 1/4 inch.
"It’s a big deal for the idea of mapping your entire home," says Jeff Powers, Occipital's CEO. "Usually we're limited to an object, or an artifact, or a person. But this tech really lets us blow that out to something like a room."
The new tech will actually roll out to Structure Sensor owners as an update at some point in early 2016, probably not long after the company shows off the new capabilities at CES.
The increased performance will be a big deal, but anyone who's had one of these devices for a while is probably used to seeing it get better with age. "From the first time somebody had a Structure Sensor to what we can do with it now is just — you wouldn't think it's the same device," Powers says. "When we launched the structure sensor and people first received units they couldn't even capture things in color."
The Structure Sensor is the go-to product for easy 3D scanning
As months went by, things like color support and HD texturing were added, making the device more and more capable with time thanks to carefully constructed software updates.
"With computer vision it's as much about the algorithms as it is about the inputs," Powers says.
The Structure Sensor isn't the kind of thing that you see every single day, but in situations where someone needs a 3D scan it's usually the go-to product. I had my head scanned by one at a 3D-printing festival earlier this year, and during a recent trip to the Museum of Natural History I saw it being used by a college professor to 3D-map dinosaur skeletons. If you watch closely, you can even see it being used during our look inside Industrial Light and Magic's secret Star Wars VR lab.
A scan of stairs done without (left) and with (right) the new, more accurate tech.
Eventually, 3D scanning could (and probably will) be a touted feature on your phone just like the camera or the voice assistant. This new tech from Lynx could help inspire that to happen even sooner, but for now, it helps Occipital distance itself from all that impending competition. Powers also says that it gives them a little more breathing room until the company needs to release new hardware.
The more immediate impact might be seen in virtual or augmented reality. After all, mapping a user's movements and their surroundings is hard, and is something we've seen universities dedicate entire rooms (and budgets) to. "I think building it into smartphones is obviously going to be huge, but also building it into wearable devices is really going to be interesting, like VR and AR headsets," Powers says. "But it's hard to say which will happen first."
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