 The Occipital Structure Sensor. It's a mobile 3D sensor that allows you to capture dense geometry and high fidelity 3D models very quickly. It has a mode that allows you to capture an entire room at once, and it even lets you play with some augmented reality games. Stay tuned for more of that and hit the like button down below if you want to see us check out more 3D printers in the future. Vote for turnip! We always say it on the WAN show. Buy the shirt. It's in the link in the description down below. So why the Structure Sensor? Well, I've been really interested in 3D scanners and printers for quite some time now, but usually the best option is like Shapeways or whatever, and it's kind of been under that whole too expensive and not really good enough for mainstream or me yet category. Yes, I know, I'm a virtual reality nut, but one or two VR dev kits is nowhere near the cost of a truly awesome 3D scanning and printing setup, let alone the cost of plastics. The Structure Sensor stood out to me, however, and I decided that it's time to start getting my hands dirty in the scanning and printing space. Unlike most 3D scanners, the Structure Sensor isn't a contained unit with a spinning platform or a moving camera or whatever. Instead, it just straps your iPad Air 1 or 2, iPad Mini 2 or 3, or 4th Gen iPad, then plugs in through a lightning connector to the iPad itself, and the internal battery of the Structure Sensor is charged through power from your mains, not the expected micro USB solution. It's a depth sensor using an invisible laser-projected infrared blast and infrared camera to capture, and then in conjunction with the iPad's accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass, it can map out a relatively accurate depth map that can be put together into a point cloud and finally modeled if that's what you want. These movement-based mechanics really give you the freedom to scan some very interesting objects that you may not be able to put into a contained type scanning unit. Maybe the material's shape or actually just the material could be the problem. Imagine scanning a sandcastle. For most people, this wouldn't be very possible due to picking up said sandcastle and having it fall apart on the way to the scanner. But if you were able to bring the scanner to the sandcastle, then you got a different story. So 3D scanning, mapping entire rooms, playing augmented reality games, and maybe some more. How well does it do it all? Let's find out. So this is just the object scanner, and you can use your thumbs to resize how large the box is. You don't want it to be too small because then I'll end up chopping off part of poor Taryn's head. And you don't want it to be too large because then I'll pick up stuff like the chairs and the desks. So I'm going to guess it's around here. I'll get some of his shoulders in there. And as you can see, it'll put kind of this white stuff on top of whatever it has in the scan, whatever data you'll get. You can notice already that it seems to be doing a pretty good job, but I don't have Taryn's glasses in here. It doesn't pick up glasses very well because it's clear and the IR light isn't going to kind of come back to the sensor very well off of something that's clear. When it goes red like that, I'm too close, so I need to kind of come back. So I just moved too quickly. You might be able to see this on the scanner. It says recovering, move gently. I'm just trying to patch in some various holes that we have. It's coming along quite nicely actually. So I'm going to press stop. It's not that bad really. There's holes here. Yeah, there's holes there. Color view. There's your Taryn. It actually did pretty okay with the glasses, a lot better than I expected. One thing that I want to clarify before we do room scanning is that it's kind of designed for an empty room. It's not designed for a super crazy clutter, really small room like this. So I'm putting it into a worst case scenario and we'll see how it works. And here we go. You'll see it's kind of fun. You kind of put everything in the room into like Tron almost. I'm going to let it look at the inside so that it can see that those are closet doors. Whoa, that looks funky. I think I moved too much and it told it wow. So it thinks that closet is just insane. All right, let's try this again. I'm going to try to move less. I'm going to try to not move my position like at all. All right, so you can see how much of a better job it did there when it's given something a little bit more simple. It even did a much better job of the closet. It still has a bit more depth than it probably actually has. I don't know. That's pretty accurate actually. Now we can try a whole filling. That makes it even a little bit better. That definitely did fix some areas. The roof fan looks kind of insane on x-ray view. Cool. Now let's try the last one, augmented reality. So I get this little cat and balls fall down and I have to try to go get them. But because I scanned these objects in, the cat can't go through the mineral bottle as you can see right there. Cannot go through the mineral bottle, but I can go around it. It's a rather simple game, but this is basically a dev kit. So you can go in here, hack the game up, make whatever you kind of want and maybe make something a little bit more fun than cat chase's ball around bottles of mineral oil. So that was fun, but what about a conclusion? The structure sensor is cool and it's definitely fun, but how practical was it? Well that actually depends a lot on the operator and the subject. Things that reflect or absorb a crazy amount may actually cause you some problems and a shaky, inexperienced or impatient operator will result in issues. The fact that the platform isn't the same all the time will leave you needing to edit many of your scans in relatively minor or sometimes relatively major ways. Would I recommend it? Yes, if you need a free form scanner for many applications that it could be needed for instead of a contained scanner. Yes, if you want to have a ton of fun with it. Not necessarily if you're looking for the highest potential scanning resolution and fidelity in the end. Speaking of things, Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club is a great way to get razors and other bathroom supplies shipped directly to your door for only a few bucks a month. The razors are high quality and we have a ton of community members who use them every day and love the smooth shave that they get, no matter how thick or course their facial hair may be. 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