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If you’re looking to get into the wonderful world of at-home 3D printing, you must start by making a significant choice: Printing from a plastic spool of material (Fused Deposition Modeling) or building your models from liquid resin (Stereolithography). FDM, the more common type of 3D printer, relies on spools of material extruded through a …

It can be a mistake to think a 3D printer is great for beginners just because it doesn’t cost a lot. Sure, it’s possible to buy a 3D printer for as little as $180, and it will work, after a fashion. Most likely, though, a beginner will buy it, spend too long trying to get one good print, then give …

Metaverse-style immersion would seem to require dedicated VR or AR hardware to fully draw audiences in, but one company is offering an eyewear-free alternative. The Brelyon Ultra Reality monitor projects panoramic and cinema-scale virtual images with added depth. As you lean in to peer inside, you’ll see an image that appears to float 5 feet in the distance with a …

A 3D printer company and a group of researchers built a prosthetic to replace a diseased portion of a rare bird’s bill, the company said Monday, demonstrating the use of the technology for treating individuals with difficult medical ailments. Formlabs and a University of South Florida medical team built the replacement for Crescent, a great Indian hornbill whose beak had …

Graphics chips are good at taking 3D scenes like video game battlefields or airplane designs and rendering them as 2D images on a screen. Nvidia, a top maker of such chips, now is using AI to do the exact opposite. In a talk at Nvidia’s GTC, the company’s annual GPU Technology Conference, researchers described how they can reconstruct a 3D …

Prusa Research has been a leader in 3D printing for the last 10 years and only recently released its first resin printer, the SL1. While the SL1 was a decent machine, it didn’t wow me, as it had no big selling point compared to other, more budget-friendly choices on the market. The new SL1S, however, has something no other resin …

Cosplay and 3D printing go hand in hand. At any convention, most of the armor and helmets you see are made from either foam or 3D-printed filament, and a lot of the small delicate work is made on resin 3D printers to keep the details sharp. Most of the time though, 3D-printed armor is rigid and breakable. I have a …

When it comes to 3D printers, I value ease of use, simple setup and reliability above fancy features and even print quality. After all, if a 3D printer is hard to set up, hard to calibrate or requires constant tweaking and correcting, you’re much less likely to use it, especially if you’re just starting out.  The new Anycubic Vyper attempts …

Adobe sees the future of creation being increasingly 3D. Its newest Adobe Substance 3D apps are aiming to be a complete destination for 3D art, sampling and even virtual photography, with uses that could range from video game assets to e-commerce to content for a possible world of VR and AR-compatible 3D assets. But these apps are PC, Mac and …

I’ve tried my fair share of cartoon avatars, from the very first Yahoo Messenger avatar I ever used, to Bitmoji stickers. There’s something I find deeply and irresistibly compelling about seeing myself represented in cartoon form, as if the cartoon has the power to capture my core essence while outstretching a more playful version of myself. When I first saw Voila …