The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama before iOS 6s Panorama feature took some of the wind out of its sails.
Their roots may be in software, but now the team is trying something very, very new. Occipital just launched a Kickstarter campaign for its very first hardware project: the Structure, a portable 3D sensor that straps to the back of your iPad that should ship by next February.
Update: Wow, the Occipital team has blown past its $100K funding goal in just over three hours.
“It took us out of our comfort zone,” CEO Jeff Powers admitted. “We went from a team of basically three to about 13, which is still ridiculously tiny, and no one sleeps anymore.”
Read also:
This Amazing Accessory Turns Your iPad Into a 3-D Scanner (Wired)
Structure Sensor shrinks 3D scanning down to an iPad attachment (Digital Trends)
Occipital's Structure Sensor: It's like a Kinect for your iPad (GigaOM)
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