What does the smartphone's 3D scanning function mean for 3D printing?

Among billions of devices worldwide, 3D scanning on smartphones can make 3D scanning a technology that many people use daily. More importantly, the native 3D scanning function allows us to sculpt objects out of thin air or customize objects through simple applications.

In fact, this will allow the power of software to solve our problem, that no one can model anything in 3D. For everyone involved in 3D printing, they need a simple way to input their designs and ideas on Twitter.

If we also focus on mass customization, it is currently being restricted. It requires an effort to go to the store for 3D scanning. If your phone is an excellent 3D scanner, you can scan itself. If 3D scanning can be used on all mobile phones, mass customization will be a kind of idle time technology that can be seen everywhere, and it will be instantly satisfied. Mobile phone-based 3D scanning will be the best and biggest thing that can happen in our industry, not just our own efforts to improve ourselves.

Now, 3D scanning on mobile phones has been achieved to some extent. Apple's new iPhone supports many scanning functions, which may have a huge impact on us. Software support for STL and object recognition through 3D scanning will also have an impact. In terms of hardware, the neural engine of the A14 chip will make machine learning applications possible. The chip also has 30% graphics performance and faster image processing speed, which will be very convenient for scanning applications.