TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult. The startup seeded its community with 1,000 Voxel 3D objects it commissioned from creators, which can be added and customized in your own space.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. Stefanescu said the goal is to provide a platform to open up the process and make it easier for companies to exchange information in 3D formats.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. We hired seven engineers, a combination of food scientists and engineers, including 3D printing engineers. Earlier last month, we featured Mooji Meats , noting the food tech startup’s plans to raise a $2.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5 Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. million 3D models and 3.5 Ex-Rovio CEO Mikael Hed also invested and joins as board chairman. In its marketplace are 1.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: The technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. The company manufactures industrial 3D printers for thermoplastics. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , which is on a quest to build homes using 3D printing, robotics and automation, has raised a $22 million extension to its Series B round of funding. The company claims to be able to 3D print structures “two times as quickly with 95% less labor hours and 10-times less waste” than conventional construction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Delivering what is believed to be the largest 3D-printed structure in North America — a barracks for Texas Military Department. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. Now that the company has laid the foundation on how to automate 3D imagery on scale, de Vigan intends to deploy the new funding into scaling nfinite’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company has developed a new neural rendering technology that makes it possible to take a small number of photos to generate, shade and render a photo-realistic 3D model of a product. In other words: you can see a 3D image of the product you’re considering in a VR headset. Image Credits: Luma. Image Credits: Luma.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The industrial 3D printing space has seen a number of interesting evolutions recently, as companies are starting a consolidation phase. Among other things, Protolabs acquired 3D Hubs , Desktop Metal snagged EnvisionTEC and Lumentum spent $5.7 With today’s Markforged share price of around $1.9, billion acquiring Coherent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. Markforged raises $82 million for its industrial 3D printers. Big morning for Massachusetts tech companies planning to go public via SPAC. billion, would bring in around $400 million in cash.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. Firehawk CEO Will Edwards (left) and chief scientist Ron Jones hold 3D-printed fuel tubes Image Credits: Firehawk Aerospace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

OPT’s 3D printing system was seven years in the making, but its timing was certainly fortuitous, with the creation of a swab it says is “up to 20 times more effective in bacterial sample elution.” RAMP 3D prints edge-to-edge rolls, allowing the system to produce high-resolution prints at a much faster scale than traditional methods.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. and Mexico. for developer 3Strands in Austin, Texas.

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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 2, 2024

Not all that long ago, it used to be hard, really hard to generate 3D images. Stability AI today announced a new generative AI technology called Stable Fast 3D to rapidly […] It was a process that involved complex wireframes, complicated software and beefy hardware. Today that’s no longer the case.

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Crunchbase News

JUNE 5, 2024

Restor3d , a North Carolina-based maker of 3D printed personalized orthopedic implants, locked up a $70 million financing — even as investors continue to cool on 3D tech startups. “With this capital, we can accelerate our efforts to transform orthopedic care through 3D printed personalized implants.” .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Specifically, the company relies on robotic and 3D printing solutions. That tech is coupled with a gantry-based 3D printing technology designed to construct interior and exterior walls for the structure. The former involves a set of 26 different robotic arm attachments to assist with the construction.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Instead, it’s developing a unit that 3D prints a dense network of microchannels that pass cells through the nutrients and oxygen they need. An example of a 3D-printed fluid channel piece. What Stämm has done is essentially cut the tank, stirring and tubes out of the equation entirely. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vectary , a design platform for 3D and augmented reality (AR), has raised a $7.3 Vectary makes high-quality 3D design more accessible for consumers, garnering over one million creators worldwide, and has more than a thousand digital agencies and creative studios as users. million round led by European fund EQT Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Recent months have also found the company enlisting other 3D printing vets. Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With a smattering of notable exceptions, however, 3D printing has largely been focused on rapid prototyping and limited-run, personal products. Metal 3D printing companies like Mantle represent an intriguing use case on the road to truly scaling the tech to mass manufacturing. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. As long as the product images are in at least 1080p resolution, Aluru said, Avataar can stitch a virtual and 3D version from it. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Now as Leo AR, the company is focused on 3D augmented reality objects without losing focus on giving artists an easy-to-use outlet for their virtual wares. In 2017, MojiLala released a new app called Surreal , which allowed artists to sell virtual objects to end users and lay them over their camera to record fun content.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 1, 2024

has arrived with performance and rendering enhancements to support 3D capabilities and more. This removes the need to download large 3D assets. The latest version of the web rendering engine Babylon.js Version 7.0 of the rendering and game engine was announced on March 28. Directions for getting started with Babylon.js

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, which is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corporation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Iconem, compañía especializada en la conservación digital con sede en París, ha empleado la fotogrametría avanzada e IA para crear réplicas en 3D de los monumentos históricos y sitios arqueológicos más famosos del mundo. A continuación, Iconem creó un modelo 3D ultrapreciso, es decir, un gemelo digital de la Basílica.

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Ooda Loop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The system, called Depth Pro, is able to generate detailed 3D depth maps from single 2D images in a fraction of a second—without […] Apple’s AI research team has developed a new model that could significantly advance how machines perceive depth, potentially transforming industries ranging from augmented reality to autonomous vehicles.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 27, 2020

A startup company is in the early stages of building a proof-of-concept that would allow local hospitals to employ 3D printers to manufacture ventilators and other medical equipment to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Startup Aims to Manufacture Ventilators Using 3D Printers appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Displaying products with 3D models is something too great to ignore for an e-commerce app. The 3D model plays an important role in boosting user conversion. Using those fancy gadgets, such an app can leave users with the first impression upon products in a fresh way!

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 11, 2022

The post We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji appeared first on DevOps.com. In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.

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CTO Vision

JULY 6, 2021

This is big news not just for the gaming industry, but for any industry that can benefit from 3D modeling, 3D simulation, 3D planning/design. Amazon has shifted its Lumberyard game engine to open source. For more see: For more see : Amazon Web Services aka AWS.

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Perficient

MAY 22, 2024

3D Transformation of Elements Dive into the exciting realm of CSS3 3D transformations! The following section describes the 3D transform functions: translate3d() Function: The translate3d() function shifts the element to a new position along the X, Y, and Z axis from its current location.

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