You can now scan and measure your entire home with an iPad attachment

Augmented reality startup Occipital first burst on the scene in 2013 with a successful Kickstarter campaign for the Structure Sensor — a strip of cameras and sensors you strap to your iPad that can be used to scan, measure, and project things into the world around you. Today the company is pushing that tech forward by releasing its first iOS app called Canvas. It’s an app that is capable of capturing and processing 3D scans of entire rooms, and it will even let you take accurate measurements inside that scan. Think of it like digital measuring tape, only more powerful.

“One of the examples that we showed in our Kickstarter video back in the day was a person scanning and measuring our entire house,” Occipital cofounder Jeff Powers tells T...

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via The Verge
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