Crowdtrees Studio have been scanning a lot of people in events, check out their facebook page to see some great scans!

We are happy to announce a new release of Skanect, which now includes a CPU fallback of the fusion when a compatible graphics card is not available. While slower than GPU fusion, it can still be used in real-time with recent multicore machines, and enables full quality offline reconstruction on all computers!

Here is the complete list of changes:

• CPU fusion
• Support for Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7
• Better automatic calibration of the sensors.
• Minimal distance of 50 cm instead of 80 cm for Xbox Kinect when using the Kinect for Windows SDK.

We’ve just released a bug fix release:
* Colorize should not crash anymore on big scans.
* Exported meshes in the free version should now have proper per-vertex colors.

Thanks for your bug reports!

We are pleased to announce a new update of Skanect, which now supports OpenNI2. This makes it easier to use OpenNI compatible devices, and in particular the new Primesense Carmine 09. With a minimal distance of 30cm, and a sub-millimetric precision at short range, it is the most adapted camera to scan small objects.

Check it out!

NPR did a story about 3D printing and scanning in their morning edition of “All Tech Considered”. We had a lot of fun scanning their correspondent in Madrid, sending them the 3D model, and see the 3D printed result in San Francisco.

You can read the full story on NPR website.

Here is the model of their correspondent, thanks Lauren for playing the game!

Virtumake did a very nice tutorial for Skanect 1.0, many thanks!

First, we would like to thank the many people who gave us very useful feedback. We listened, and we are pleased to announce a new update, with the following improvements:

• New plane cut feature to create clean object bases (see video below).
• STL and OBJ exports.
• Support for XBox Kinect with Kinect for Windows SDK.
• New status tab to with better GPU and sensor error messages.
• Various bug fixes.