Gur Bittan envisions a future where you’re not just capturing a regular video of a child’s first steps with a smartphone; you’re doing it in 3-D, and sharing it with friends who can manipulate the video to watch it from different perspectives—even the kid’s point of view, providing you’ve scanned the scene from enough angles.
Bittan is the chief technology officer of Mantis Vision, an Israel-based 3-D technology company that hopes to make this kind of experience commonplace. If its 3-D technology is included in mobile gadgets like smartphones and tablets, it could make something as simple as communicating with friends more immersive.
The company’s software and hardware designs are part of Google’s Project Tango tablet, which can map environments and objects. It is also working on a pocket-sized 3-D scanner and already offers an enterprise 3-D scanner called the F5.
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