I actually wrote about this over a decade ago, but I found myself thinking about this once again, the fact that, in 1972, the first real-world object was “scanned” and translated into ...

What if the physical world could be captured with such precision that it became indistinguishable from its digital counterpart? This is the bold ambition driving the collaboration between Microsoft ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial ...