GEC NEWS WIREUnveils world’s first high-speed full-body 3D scanner at Arraya Shopping Centre – Kuwait Shapify Booth creates 3D portraits by turning customers into high-quality, full color 3D printed mini-me figurines
Artec 3D, a global market leader in 3D scanners, and Kuwait-based company 3D Utopia, are unveiling the world’s first high-speed full-body 3D scanner for 3D portraits for the first time in Kuwait at Arraya Shopping Centre on 15th July 2015.
Artec Shapify Booth will help customers experience 3D technologies firsthand in a way that’s easy, fun and affordable. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, is expected to attend the unveiling of the scanner.
These high-precision scanners, used in the aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries to guarantee quality control, capture even the slightest specifics, down to wrinkles on clothes. Now with Shapify Booth and its accompanying user-friendly software, the scanners can be controlled by simply pressing one button.
Artyom Yukhin, president and CEO of Artec 3D said “The Shapify booth has been significantly popular in Asia, the U.S. and Western Europe, and we are Although 3D technology, specifically 3D printing, is widely heard of in the news, it has not reached the stage where it is easily accessible to the average consumer. We aim to change this and believe the Shapify Booth can become many people’s first interaction with 3D technologies.
Artec’s highly sophisticated software automatically merges together hundreds of generated images to produce a full-body 3D image file ready for 3D printing, without any post-processing. Finally, the digital model is then sent to a 3D printing center to make a full color mini-statue which can be delivered to or collected by the customer.
“We have been the authorised partner for Artec 3D in the GCC for over a year and we’ve started marketing Artec handheld scanners. We are optimistic that ‘Shapie’, the 3D version of your body, will take the ‘selfie’ concept to the next level.” said Ashish Panjabi, COO, Jacky’s Business Solutions L.L.C.
