Arcam AB's New 3-D Printer Takes Off With Aerospace Companies – Motley Fool
Arcam AB's New 3-D Printer Takes Off With Aerospace CompaniesMotley FoolWhat makes things particularly exciting here, however, is that the $630 billion aerospace industry is just now beginning to move beyond using 3-D printing technology for prototyping and small-run production of noncritical components to the production …
How 3D Technology Will Transform Business (readwriteweb)
Guest author Sanjay Patel is CEO and co-founder of Personify, an immersive video technology company._
Before long, 3D imaging—which requires a 3D camera to capture the 3D nature of the world—will be a core component of laptops, tablets and smartphones. While it’s easy to imagine how this technology might impact consumers, especially with Amazon’s Fire Phone, Google Tango, Microsoft Kinect and Oculus Rift making headlines, its usefulness for business isn't quite as straightforward.
> **See also: Google's Project Tango: 5 Things You Need To Know**
But 3D imaging will have a significant impact on the enterprise. We’re already seeing numerous Fortune 500 companies and smaller companies testing 3D-based applications and experiencing very exciting results.
## Immersive Collaboration
Many hardware and software 3D technologies—for instance, touchless user interfaces, immersive video chat, face recognition, 3D scanning, etc.—can also translate directly into applications for the enterprise.
For example, 3D imaging could vastly improve virtual meetings and presentations by making them "immersive." Applications that use depth-sensing technology can extract individuals from their surroundings and "place" them into 3D virtual meetings with their colleagues, or even into a virtual "space" with data objects—documents, presentations or what-have-you—they can manipulate and display. It's basically the same thing …
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