‘3d on iphone’

Interactive 3D on Your Mobile. Inventor Publisher iPhone App {Hands-on } #AU2009

03 Dec, 2009 by in TECH

It’s odd.You see a crowd of people gathered around an iPhone and you automatically think… head down, ramming speed… and it all goes fairly well, until you run smack dab into cool tech that may very well help you explain away piles of paper.

This week, Autodesk Labs released the Inventor Publisher Tech Preview which allows you to create interactive 3D assembly instruction animations. It’s cool, but tucked behind this is an even cooler iPhone app, pending approval, that brings those interactive 3D bits to the mobile device.

We got the hands-on demonstration from Abhijit Singh, Senior Product Manger on Digital Concepts for the Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group.

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FreshFiber’s 3D Printed iPhone Case Puts the Fancy in Your Pants

05 Nov, 2009 by in DESIGN

Once again 3D is hitting the iPhone with a fearsome tenacity that makes you just plain ignore regular phone users. But this time the 3D goodness isn’t in the iPhone, it’s on it… and it’s on it in a not-over-the-top-at-all, ultra-fashionable way.

FreshFiber, with the styling skills of Janne Kyttanen, has launched a fresh line of iPhone cases created with the material layering intensity of a 3D printer. Yes, call your friends for a cute little iPhone party and prepare to get your hands on some of this stylish fab.

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Dan and Chuck Rock the First 3D Viewer for Your iPhone

27 Jul, 2009 by in TECH

Well now. While you’re sitting around waiting for the 3DVia iPhone App or throwing your vote in for an eDrawings app, a relatively small band of developers has slammed 3D model viewing right into your sleek smartphone.

Dan Halabe and Chuck Han have release NaviCAD, currently the only way to get silly with 3D viewing excitement for the plethora of 3D models available at Google’s 3D Warehouse. Here’s what you’ll see.

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