How to turn photos into 3D models? Use RealityScan, an app from Epic Games.

Epic introduces the RealityScan mobile app for converting photos into 3D objects.

Epic Games, a studio that we no longer need to represent and to which we are indebted, in particular Fortnite, has developed a mobile application that allows you to convert photos into 3D models. Capturing Reality, which Epic acquired last year, developed a photogrammetry software called RealityCapture. This allowed laser scans or images to be quickly converted into 3D scans. With the RealityScan app, Epic hopes to give users access to this technology right from their smartphone.

Epic unveils RealityScan mobile app

The idea is to allow creators to scan real world objects whenever they want, simply and quickly, to integrate them into their projects. Once authenticated with your Epic Games account, the app will ask you to take approximately twenty pictures of the item you want to convert. You can also hold the photo button and rotate the object in question.

Once the app has processed the images and turned them into a 3D object through processing on the RealityCapture servers, you can export the scan to Sketchfab, a 3D asset management platform acquired by Epic in 2021.

To turn photos into 3D objects

You can then sell these assets to other content creators or use them in your own 3D, virtual or augmented reality projects. Developers should find this application particularly useful if they need to place a specific object in a virtual environment. Especially since Epic has just opened access to Unreal Engine 5.

Epic is currently testing this RealityScan app, and only a few iOS users have access to it. Early Access for iOS is currently scheduled for late this spring. An Android version is also planned, due later this year.