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Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC

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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. SPACs are, of course, becoming an increasingly popular route for taking companies public.

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Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties

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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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MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

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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.” The need for such devices predates COVID-19, of course, and will certainly live on once the pandemic is (knock on wood) in the rearview.

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Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding

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The basis of their technique is turning widely available 2D imagery into accurate 3D representations with machine learning, a bit of smart guesswork, and a lot of computing power. Using all this it creates a plausible 3D reconstruction of the building. But that also necessitates the aforementioned 2D-to-3D method. Blackshark.ai

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

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That data, they believe, is also more complete: as Seidel describes it, the combination of terabytes of data from multiple sources means it is not just 3D, but “4D” — with thermal and other kinds of details available, “is like the difference between using an image from a smartphone, and a high-end camera with high resolution.”

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CTOvision Readers Authorized Free Access to Udemy’s V-Ray Course

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Autodesk 3ds Max (formerly 3D Studio Max) is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. V-Ray is a 3D rendering engine that provides fast creation and rendering solutions for CGI, 3D animation and virtual reality.

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Web3 Funding Gains 43% Year To Year But Dips From Q2

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Infinite Reality , a Connecticut-based creator of 3D immersive environments, raised a $350 million round at a $5.1 Of course, investors may be getting more particular about where they put their money when it comes to Web3, or that fewer compelling Web3 companies are being created.