“3D Future Camera” Developed Jointly with KDDI Corporation

A state-of-the-art fully automated 3D scan studio introduced at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024, where visitors experience the Tokyo of the future

Summary:

This was a programme held at Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, offering visitors a taste of the Tokyo of the future. Using the 3D Future Camera we developed, the programme let visitors scan their own bodies and create a 3D model of themselves. The technology was developed jointly with KDDI, and delivered a new kind of experience: visitors could control their own avatar in a virtual space of the future and pose for a commemorative photo alongside a robot.

Official SusHi Tech link:
https://www.sushitechtokyo2024-sc.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/module/booth/228110/211421

Point:

In the unstaffed 3D scan studio, the 3D Future Camera scans a user’s whole body at high precision, fully automatically, and instantly creates a 3D model of them. Animation is then applied to the resulting avatar automatically, so users can move their avatar freely within an original virtual space and enjoy a new form of commemorative photography.

Story :

The project draws on the technology behind WIDAR*, the app that performs 3D scanning and 3D editing with a single smartphone. By providing the proprietary 3D scanning algorithms and 3D editing platform developed for WIDAR, we made it easy to produce high-quality 3D models.

Installing a 3D scan model studio used to require an enormous budget. With our technology, high-quality 3D scan models can now be generated at low cost and fully automatically.

Through the 3D scanning technology we develop in-house, WOGO focuses on balancing the required quality against running costs, so that more companies and projects can adopt 3D technology.

* WIDAR link: https://www.widar.io/ja

Message:

WOGO Inc. is a team of engineers dedicated to developing next-generation technology and putting it to work in society. About 90% of our members are engineers, and our team brings together highly specialised talent including graduates of the Faculty of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Each member has their own field of interest and technical specialty, and by combining that diverse knowledge we work to create new solutions.

Our 3D scanning technology is now being used more and more widely across industries including entertainment, civil engineering and manufacturing.

We are looking for corporate partners to build next-generation services with us, in consumer services and elsewhere, as well as colleagues to develop technology alongside us.

If you are at all interested, please do get in touch.