Holy cow Will! This is next level stuff. However, be careful, Your production and filming skills almost overshine the product. The part with the Metaverse was stunning. Can you shair where that came from? Your work?

Everything about your video is amazing. I want one!!!! I don't know why yet, but I want one.

I bet your niece is very excited to have her avatar built with this scanner and her very talented uncle. Do me now!!

Thanks so much for sharing this with us. So much fun.

@Dave, Haha yeah this video is a step up in terms of clarity (4K now) and a new stage to film on. Great catch on the metaverse piece. Those are actually images I created using AI. Then I took those images into photoshop and split the images into 3 different planes (background, midground, and foreground). Using the tools within photoshop, I could then move the "camera" through the image, turning a 2d piece of art into 3d image you can fly through. Then I added bits of movement in the air like dust and snow, then I added birds to one segment...too give the image a since of movement. I should do a video on how I create them!

3D scanners are a great tool for doing reverse engineering, as an example, working on the new Alan, I was able to quickly scan the EZB and different integrated circuit boards so I can have stand ins in my 3d programs, so I can check to see if there is enough room for them, or to change their orientations with in the space to see what works best. Nothing pretty just quick and dirty. (see below)

Mind blowing. Brilliant. I need to see if I can scrap up $800 UDS and get one of these.

Combine a 3D scanner and a 3d printer and you are your own factory. I know some classic car guys who are reverse engineering car parts that are no longer available, then 3d printing new ones..one guy even replaced a dashboard!

Very cool Will.   Wouldn’t it be great if our robots had that level of clarity when they looked at the world.   Roomba building a full 3 D mode of the house and everyone in it as it wanders around.

the old 3D scanner in the Kinect was pretty cool although it was impossible to calibrate and never closed off the image very well.

As for the metaverse we have been waiting for years and I am not sure if we are any closer.  I tried to move this forward back from 2006-2010 and never made a lot of traction. I was the lead architect for IEEE virtual world interoperability standards. Like the internet I didn’t believe we would ever have a single company run the metaverse (sorry Meta) so we needed a way to move content between worlds (ID, Avatars, Inventory, Currency etc) for a seamless user experience. We needed an agreed upon interoperability standard to transfer assets and secure content and digital rights.

Maybe time to revisit  this, especially now we have blockchain and NFTs.

@nink Yeah I'm heavily invested in blockchain from NFTs to crypto. I started looking into companies that are working on creating the bridge between worlds. There has to be a universal standard or seamless portal where everything is converted on the fly for the Metaverse to get some traction. Everyone is looking for a better way to cash in on the successes of Minecraft and Roblox universes. Metaverse isn't a new idea, just a new name, been around for a long time. But the foundation, the universal standards haven't even been nailed down yet....going to be the wild west for several years.

I actually did include Bitcoin blockchain in my original standards draft for currency exchange but someone became nervous and I had to remove it from the final IEEE P1828 standards draft.  If you want I can send a copy of the standards draft doc but it is copyright behind IEEE firewall so I really can't share publicly.

I had included bitcoin in my High level Architecture :-)

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I had included bitcoin in my High level Architecture :-)