Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Posted by Jim Thacker Kiri Engine 3.14 adds AI-enhanced Lidar scanning html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Kiri Innovations has added AI-enhanced Lidar scanning to Kiri Engine, its 3D scanning app for Android and iOS. The new AI-Enhanced Scene Scan processes Lidar data captured on iOS devices in the cloud, applying new machine learning techniques to generate cleaner, more detailed scans. A free AI-enhanced 3D scanning app for Android as well as Apple phones First released in 2022, Kiri Engine – strictly, it’s styled ‘KIRI Engine’ – is a 3D scanning app for Android and iOS devices. It began as a photogrammetry tool, reconstructing 3D models from source photos of real-world objects, and uses AI techniques for object masking and noise removal. Recent updates have added support for Neural Surface Reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting and Lidar scanning on compatible iOS devices: recent Pro model iPhones and iPads. Pro accounts: process raw Lidar Scene Scans in the cloud to remove noise The 3.14 update extends those Lidar capabilities, introducing an extra processing step to refine the raw scan data, which is usually much lower-quality than that captured with a professional laser scanner. It makes use of two new machine learning models: StableNormal, for estimating surface normals from source images; and Prompt Depth Anything for depth estimation. The extra step reduces noise in the scan data, and improves resolution of small details: you can see before-and-after comparisons in the video at the top of the story. AI processing is primarily intended for use with Kiri Engine’s Scene Scan mode, for capturing entire environments – for example, for quickly scanning a set during a live shoot as later reference for VFX work. Although Lidar scanning, including Scene Scan, is available with free Basic accounts, the cloud processing requires a paid Pro subscription. Pricing and system requirements Kiri Engine is available for Android 7.0+ and iOS/iPadOS 16.1+. The app itself is free to download. Free Basic accounts include photogrammetry, Lidar scanning, and Object Capture, and can export three 3D scans from the cloud per week. Pro accounts cost $17.99/month or $79.99/year, and make it possible to export an unlimited number of scans, and unlock advanced features, including the 3DGS toolset. Read more about Kiri Engine’s new AI-enhanced Lidar Scene Scans Download Kiri Engine for Android from Google Play Download Kiri Engine for iOS from the iOS App Store Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. Latest News Kiri Engine 3.14 adds AI-enhanced Lidar scanning Mobile 3D scanning app uses new machine learning techniques to refine Lidar environment scans captured on iPhone and iPad Pros. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.0 Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Chaos releases Vantage 2.8 Real-time renderer gets support for light linking, lens effects, and Shader Execution Reordering on NVIDIA GPUs. See all the new features. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards Soft tissue simulation and render denoising system win tech 'Oscars', due to be presented at a ceremony tonight. Check out the other winners. Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 Sparseal adds SDF modeling to Uniform 1.4 Big update to the iPad app for creating 3D models for games and concept art adds SDF modeling system and 3D printing features. Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 EZ-Tree is a lightweight free open-source tree generator 3D web developer Dan Greenheck's browser-based tool generates stylized 3D and 2D trees for games, online and illustration work. Monday, April 28th, 2025 More News Substance 3D creator Sébastien Deguy to leave Adobe Download free Houdini tools from SideFX's Project Grot Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists Adobe releases Photoshop 26.6 Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D Get 260+ modular Wild West building assets for Unreal Engine Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025 Older Posts