Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
I anticipate all sorts of crazy digital-rights management battles ahead for 3D objects like this - including art - but even more on likenesses / people / etc.<p>Roughly a year ago I bought a structure scanner (1) for my iPad, scanned in friends, imported to unity and let them walk around themselves in the Oculus DK2.<p>That was a very cool experience but an unexpected result was how many people asked me to delete the scan afterwords.<p>The comment was it was too creepy to have your 3d likeness floating around out there, these comments from friends that spend their days posting 2d to FB / instagram.<p>A bust is about the ideal thing to scan with current consumer tech, since it's completely static, but add in algorithmic stabilization / stitching and 3d scanning a human (or recreating from photographs) with or without their permission is right around the corner.<p>(1) <a href="http://structure.io/" rel="nofollow">http://structure.io/</a>