Epic Games has unveiled a new smartphone app that can create 3D models of objects from a series of smartphone images. The idea is to use an app called RealityScan to scan a real-world object such as a chair and insert the resulting model into a particular design or even a video game.
The app is currently available as a beta version for a select number of users via Apple’s TestFlight platform, which will provide the app to only 10,000 users. According to The Verge, using the app is very simple and easy.
It starts its work by taking pictures before the user needs to move slowly around the object to take different shots, and the app will ask you to take at least 20 pictures. Once the scanning is done, you can submit the model to be uploaded to Sketchfab, a 3D modeling platform. And you’ll be able to see your scan on the site after a few minutes.
On the other hand, some users noticed a difference between the shape of the models that they tried to make, compared to the models revealed by Epic in marketing the program, but the company attributed the matter to the different types of cameras used in the scanning process in Apple phones, due to the difference in accuracy between them.