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Android users no longer locked out of 3D modeling tool

Epic’s RealityScan app makes it easy to turn photos into 3D models.

Karen Moltenbrey

Initially released for iOS devices last year, the Epic Games RealityScan app, developed in collaboration with Capturing Reality (creator of RealityCapture) and Quixel (creator of Megascans), is now available for Android devices, too. RealityScan is a free downloadable photogrammetry application that works with a smartphone or tablet, enabling users to create high-fidelity 3D models of objects by taking multiple photographs of them with their Android device. (The Android device must support ARCore; the Apple device must run iOS 16 or later.) Those models can then be exported into Sketchfab, where they can be shared, or downloaded to other applications including
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