Source : Epic
Epic Games has developed a new app that could allow you to scan the chair in your room and bring it right into your game or project, just with the help of your smartphone camera.
The new app, known as RealityScan, helps you to scan items in the real world and import them into the virtual world – be it in a game you are playing or a project you’re working on.
In a video demonstration, Epic Games shows how you could scan any item and move it into the virtual world. The scanned items seem like handcrafted 3-D models, and to be fair, it is not something that we’ve not already seen in different apps like Photogrammetry, for example.
To develop the app, Epic Games used talent pool from Capturing Reality, Quixel and Sketchfab, companies that it has acquired over time. The efforts additionally consist of talent from Unreal Engine, Epic-owned gaming engine which powers a vast range of games throughout the world.
Aimed at enhancing the development tools available to its creators
While it looks as if a fun idea to just scan real-world objects and import them into the virtual world, as an end user, Epic has a much greater crucial reason behind developing RealityScan.
This app, when finished, will permit developers and game creators to considerably lessen the time it takes to manually create in-game content, on account that they could just scan an item in the real world and import it into their projects, and just have to in addition optimise them if required.
The RealityScan app is presently just available on a first-come-first-serve basis to iOS users through Apple’s TestFlight platform. Since that is a limited beta, you would possibly need to reserve your spot in case you are interested by trying the app out.
Epic said that the widest availability is being aimed in the up-next weeks, and an Android release later this year.
