Structure Sensor is a clip on accessory for iPad that's designed to let you 3D scan objects, play augmented reality games and build a digital manipulable model of a room, complete with measurements.

At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, Occipital showed off its Structure mobile depth sensor that attaches to the back of an iPad to capture a 3D model of whatever is in front of it ...

We try out Occipital’s new Structure Sensor, a device that you mount to your iPad so it can 3D scan ... You can use it to measure the depth of a room or create a 3D model of an object or person.

The app does this by performing tens of thousands of measurements on your iPad, and it leans on the Structure Sensor’s sub-millimeter accuracy to create this scale 3D model.

Hands on: Structure Sensor turns your iPad into a 3D scanning machine Nifty clip-on device is more platform than product—and it needs apps to survive.

3D Object Scanning. While we quickly proved the merits of Structure Sensor’s object scanning, Reddy did point out that there are generally better options for scanning really small objects.

To improve accuracy when scanning a person, they’ve bumped up the resolution (from 640×480 on the original sensor to 1280×960 on Mark II) and increased the distance between the Structure’s ...

It also has some key improvements over the original 2013-era Structure sensor. A version of that model connected to the iPad , and offered an early look at where AR technology would head next.