Scandy Pro Tango
With Scandy Pro, the New Orleans-based company turns Tango into a versatile 3D printing companion.
Scandy, a small computer vision and mobile 3D scanning company, has launched its Scandy Pro 3D scanning app, which supports a Google AR/ VR and room-mapping platform.
The Tango platform uses computer vision to enable mobile device, like smartphones for example, to detect their location without the use of GPS. With Scandy Pro, the New Orleans-based company turns Tango into a versatile 3D printing companion, going beyond its usual Augmented Reality functions. Scandy Pro produces full-colour 3D object scans from the Phab 2 Pro, giving users the capability to print models of people and other objects.
Tango receives support from a range of mobile applications, from motion trackers to apps able to perceive depth. It also has its own 3D Reconstruction Library, which enables users to create environment scans with a resolution the standard of one which would be used to scan a room. When scans of this type are created, point clouds or blocky meshes, unfit for 3D printing, are printed.
This is where Scandy comes in. Leveraging its own 3D scanning algorithms, coupled with Tango’s robust tracking, to scan objects in a resolution higher than other Tango-supporting apps can achieve. Meshes made is Scandy Pro can easily be exported to any 3D slicing program that supports .ply files.
When using Scandy Core’s GPU-optimised pipeline, Tango’s 3D Reconstruction can provide a maximum resolution of 1mm, which Scandy believes makes the application an attractive option for enthusiasts looking to produce accurate prints. Yet, its ease-of-use, plus its ability to be accessed via a smartphone, also tempts the beginner market. It all culminates in a solution that can bring quality prints, in quick-time, to an engaged community of artists and makers.
Scandy Core, the scanning middleware and ‘backbone’ of the technology featured in the Scandy Pro app, is fully customisable, and sensor-agnostic. It can be integrated into any professional project that requires the use of 3D modelling, 3D printing, depth sensing, AR/VR, or CAD software.
“We’ve been working on Scandy Core to make high-resolution object scanning available on mobile devices for years now,” said Scandy co-founder Cole Wiley. “We are thrilled to bring our expertise to Tango-enabled devices.”
Charles Carriere, the other co-founder of the company, adds: “The Scandy team is looking forward to seeing what great content the Tango user community can create with the new Scandy Pro app.”
