Awesome 3d

Wraparound 360º headsets. fabric screens. Spray-on screens. Digital art and design company Universal Everything flex their 3D animation skills by imaging how screens will be integrated into objects in the future. More here.

A free application for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift that lets you build 3D models using a newbie-friendly interface made of six basic commands and a drag-and-drop mechanic. You can share your creations as 3D files or as animated gifs.

There’s some complex math and science behind BendSketch technology, but basically what it lets you do is impressive – draw a freeform sketch to indicate the shape and depth of an object, and it automatically creates a smooth 3D model of it of the design.

Goro Fujita’s “short film” is a looping snapshot of a suburban area. So what makes it so special? It’s entirely in 3D, made for and within virtual reality. Goro spent 80 hours making it in Quill, an illustration app for the Oculus Rift that lets you make both 2D and 3D visual art.

Sketchfab member elbriga made a three dimensional version of a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip. It’s also compatible with virtual reality headsets. Now make it bigger, then take us inside. Spaceman Spiff’s adventures were made for this.

Rich people, it’s time to fulfill your destiny. Go forth and test the prophesied messiah of virtual reality for the rest of us. Shipping this March, the Rift will come with an Xbox One controller, a remote control and two games: Eve Valkyrie and Lucky’s Tale. Recommended PC specs here.

Eora will turn your smartphone into a 3D scanner. Its green laser and iOS and Android apps make high resolution scanning quick, easy and affordable. It saves models as .ply, .obj, and .stl files and has an optional Bluetooth turntable accessory.

We can only imagine how much work it took for Aryok Pinera to bring Mario and all his moves in Unreal Engine 4. Sure, the plumber seems out of place in the hyper-real environments, but we’d still love to play this game.

Twenty2 collaborated with interior design professor Sarah Strauss and her students to create Deep, a collection of anaglyphic 3D wallpapers. We’re not sure if they come with 3D glasses, but they’re cool on their own.

YouTuber Neil Smith used Cinema 4D and the Octane Render plugin to turn the mission patches of NASA’s manned moon missions into 3D animations. You can buy the stills from the video as one large print.

Gametime414 remade part of BioShock‘s opening sequence using CryEngine 3. If you think this isn’t much of an improvement then nostalgia’s gotten the better of you. The game still looks fine though, considering it came out eight years ago.

Illustrator and digital artist Chris LaBrooy made these amazing 3D graphics of trucks that look realistic… except they’re elongated and intertwined. He also made a similar series but with cars. Check out his gallery on his website.

Sketchfab member Glenatron made a small interactive virtual diorama that depicts various scenes from Metal Gear Solid, including Solid Snake using the CODEC and teaming up with Gray Fox to battle Metal Gear REX.

We’ve seen several fun things from Chris Carlson, and the hits keep on coming, this time in the form of an anamorphic 3D painting of a SkeeBall game, with some fun time lapse and stop-motion.

Gyula Benczúr’s The Recapture of Buda Castle in 1686 painstakingly recreated in 3D by graphic artist Zsolt Ekho Farkas. It took him a total of about two months to complete. Learn more about how he made it on Behance.

(NSFW: Nudity) An amazing if not a bit creepy demonstration of how lifelike 3D scans of human models become when viewed with an Oculus Rift in combination with the motion controls of the Razer Hydra. More here.

It’s not the first 3D scanner we’ve seen, but this one clips to your iPad and can scan people and rooms. The Structure Sensor has already blown through its crowdfunding goal, so move quick if you still want one of the early units.

An impressive tech demo of 3-Sweep, which can quickly generate 3D models from just a single photographic image. Sure, it’s not perfect – it can’t see hidden surfaces, and has trouble with fuzzy edges, but it’s still freaking impressive.

The guys behind Crysis show off some of the incredible new visual effects their game engine can crank out, along with some of the technical bits that developers will enjoy watching too. The procedural weather system is truly awesome.

While we’ve had it up to here with movies being released in 3D for no good reason, we’re thinking that Metallica’s epic new concert film – which entwines a story about a roadie on a mission – will be well worth a watch in IMAX 3D.

While we still ponder how we managed to draw a cube that one time in art class sophomore year, Chris Carlson impresses with this 3D chalk art time lapse of Donkey Kong versus Escher; bonus stop-motion scene included.

Since most of us don’t have graphics cards that can keep up with 3DMark’s coolest tech demos, here’s a full 1080p look at their Fire Strike demo, which will put all but the best systems through the ringer.

Holly Wood is a series of computer-generated wooden sculptures from French artists Tony and Emmanuelle Lugand that features some of our most beloved pop culture, media and gaming icons.