Turn photos into 3D with Meta's SAM 3D, using SAM 2 masks and Gaussian splatting, so you can build assets quickly for projects.

Three-dimensional recreations of people’s faces used to require expensive, dedicated scanners, but now you can do it with a smartphone. Simon Lucey and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in ...

Possible Reality can take a 2D picture of your face and turn it into a 3D avatar inside a video game or virtual world, helping people to identify with such characters in a much more personal way. Lots ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

On Tuesday, Tencent released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, allowing users to pilot a camera path to “explore” ...

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt.

Kamenya Omote, a shop in Tokyo, is selling 3D-printed masks that replicate people's real faces (all images courtesy of Shuhei Okawara/Kamenya Omote) As if 2020 wasn't weird enough, a Japanese company ...

When 75-year-old grandfather Dave Richards began a bike ride with friends in July 2021, he expected nothing more than a pleasant afternoon. But in a few chaotic seconds, his life changed forever. A ...

If you’ve ever tried learning Blender from scratch as I have, you know just how brutal the learning curve can be. I spent ...

In this post, we are going to discuss the best free 3D file viewer software for Windows 11/10. Using these free software, you can easily view a variety of 3D files. Some of the commonly supported 3D ...