Virtual Simulation

Movie producers and video game designers can rapidly scan and import entire movie sets, characters and objects into various CGI platforms using 3D laser scanning technology from FARO^®. This captures scenes considerably faster and in better detail than traditional techniques.

The FARO Laser Scanner is a 3D documentation solution offering point cloud data acquisition. Its 3D modeling capability allows producers to map out camera angles, special effects and storylines. Applying the techniques of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and virtual reality they can create never-before-seen effects within an incredibly short time.

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How to ensure that “cheap special effects” are no longer prevalent? Digital point cloud helps you in creating dreams

Film/Television: Nothton Metrology Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
In 2014, a well-known visual effects company in China contacted Nothton to ask them to provide 3D scanning service for the film scenes of “Mojin -The Lost Legend”. At that time, the Hollywood visual effects supervisor hired by the visual effects company recommended the introduction of 3D scanning technology into the production process of the film, so he found us.

FARO Provides Marine Surveyors with Accurate Measurements of Tanker Cargo Hold

Shipbuilding: Intertek Testing Services Korea Ltd.
Since investing in the Focus^3D, Intertek has been able to overcome several difficulties that it used to face in the past. For instance, with older tankers, customers often have no design drawings of the ship. With the Focus^3D, the team can accurately measure any part of the ship quickly and easily, capturing even rounded and curved parts that the total station had difficulty with. Now, Intertek uses the Focus^3D in the shipyards, mainly for new shipbuilding projects and for volumetric measurements of cargo holds on existing vessels.

Modern-day Sherlock Holmes — Where 3D Scanning Technology Meets Forensic Science

Public Safety: Southern Medical University
Established in 2005, the Center of Forensic Science at Southern Medical University in China is a state-approved, large-scale forensic science institution set up by the Guangdong Province Department of Justice. The center’s Research Institute of Forensic Science Technologies for Traffic Accidents has been using 3D scanning technology in the investigation of traffic accidents, and has established itself as the country’s leading authority through its continuous extensive exploration of the subject matter.

Five-fold Productivity in Field Surveys, New Possibilities in VR, & Opportunities Overseas – How the FARO Laser Scanner Changed Poporo Plant’s Business

Plant Engineering: Poporo Plant Co., Ltd
“With the introduction of the FARO Focus^3D X 130, our team can now complete the field survey for a plant mechanical room – which is a job that used to take us more than a week with two people on the task – in just one day. This effectively translates to less than one-fifth the effort.”