June 26, 2025
RealityScan Mobile: new release, exciting new features
The newest version of RealityScan Mobile has arrived! With improved masking, easier refinements, and better image management, there’s no better time to start scanning your world.June 17, 2025
RealityScan 2.0: New release brings powerful new features to a rebranded RealityCapture
RealityCapture and its mobile companion RealityScan have had a branding makeover! RealityCapture is now RealityScan, and RealityScan is now RealityScan Mobile. Check out powerful new features in RealityScan 2.0, along with our brand-new website.June 16, 2025
Digitizing The Rock: How Pete Kelsey and RealityScan 2.0 brought Alcatraz into the Epic ecosystem
When VCTO Labs set out to create the most comprehensive 3D model ever of Alcatraz Island, they chose RealityScan to generate a stunning digital replica from aerial LiDAR, photos, and Cesium tiles.June 10, 2025
Become a scanning pro with the Mastering Megascans course
Whether you’re new to RealityScan or a seasoned pro, Quixel’s Mastering Megascans course delivers essential tips and tricks for scanning your world.April 23, 2025
April’s free Epic learning content: animation, 3D scanning, HMI, and more.
This month’s free learning content includes a crash course on making animation in UE, programming tutorials from Unreal Authorized Instructors, HMI design tips, and much more.
December 11, 2024
Cesium’s accurate 3D geospatial data is transforming industriesDiscover how Cesium is helping to transform industries including archviz by bringing highly detailed and accurate 3D geospatial data into Unreal Engine—and how new Cesium integrations with RealityCapture, UEFN, and Sketchfab are empowering devs. 
April 3, 2024
A cultural heritage digital experience powered by Unreal Engine and the Epic ecosystemWhen South Korea wanted to provide its citizens with access to the country’s exported cultural artifacts, it conceived the Digital Homecoming Project—a plan to digitize cultural assets and bring them into interactive scenes powered by Unreal Engine. 
June 20, 2023
RealityScan is now available for Android devices!We’re pleased to announce that RealityScan is now available for Android as well as iOS devices, putting this powerful, free-to-download photogrammetry application into the hands of almost anyone with a modern smartphone or tablet.
May 30, 2023
Dream builders: Recreating the original vision for Habitat 67 with an Unreal Engine and RealityCapture Sample ProjectMoshe Safdie's original vision for Habitat 67 has been recreated virtually, so anyone can explore one of the most important buildings of the 20th century in a new sample project. Find out how Neoscape, Epic, Safdie Architects, and others did it today.
February 28, 2023
Preserving European royal heritage with RealityCapture and Unreal EngineTo conserve the legacy of Sisi, 19th-century Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, digital art service Artzenal has recreated sections of the Empress’s private collection—along with her palace chambers in Vienna as they would have looked during her lifetime—in breathtaking detail.
December 1, 2022
RealityScan is now free to download on iOSRealityScan is a free-to-download 3D scanning app for mobile devices that turns photographed objects into high-fidelity 3D models. Once you’re done, export to Sketchfab and share your creation with the world.
October 13, 2022
Meet JUMP: the world’s first hyperreal wingsuit simulatorWingsuit BASE jumping is a highly dangerous sport. Find out how photogrammetry tool RealityCapture and Unreal Engine 5 were used to create an immersive wingsuit simulator that offers all of the excitement of the real thing—and none of the risk.August 30, 2022
Medieval life at Guildford Castle comes to VR
Guildford Castle VR is an entertaining and educational historical experience that takes the user through space and time to explore one of England’s earliest castles.
June 30, 2022
Real-time character animation training roundup: free resourcesCheck out our 3D animation resources! Since our last post, we’ve added a ton of new animation tutorials, guides, and samples. Dive into the new Animation Field Guide, explore the Slay sample project, and brush up on your animation techniques with our latest online courses.April 14, 2021
Albatros: bringing a piece of history into virtual reality
The last express steam engine in Europe, the Albatros, has many stories to tell, but unfortunately it's not physically accessible to everyone. That's why Artzenal digitized the beloved icon with RealityScan, and brought it to virtual reality for all to enjoy.March 12, 2021
Seti I: preserving a 3000-year-old tomb with RealityScan
Factum Foundation set out to create a complete and accurate record of the 3000-year-old rock-cut tomb of Seti I through photogrammetry, laser scanning, and an innovative 3D printing process, with RealityScan at the core of the project.March 12, 2021
NASA Space Shuttle Discovery 3D scanned using RealityScan
The Smithsonian Institution Digitization Program Office scanned the Space Shuttle Discovery in high resolution using tens of thousands of 50-megapixel images and hundreds of laser scans.February 10, 2021
Improving safety at Europe's largest port with drone scanning and RealityScan
When Terra Inspectioneering needed to perform a tricky jetty inspection at Rotterdam port, they lowered costs and shortened downtimes through the use of drones and RealityScan.January 7, 2021
KOBOLD: a horror VR experience
Discovery how the environments and characters for KOBOLD, an award-winning horror experience, were created through photogrammetry with RealityScan.November 7, 2020
Zamani: preserving Sri Lanka's heritage
The Zamani Project is preserving the ruins of an ancient garden city in Sri Lanka with the help of drone and terrestrial photography, laser scans, and RealityScan.November 5, 2020
3D museum tour of Hallwyl House attracts fans around the world
Sweden's National Historical Museums uses RealityScan to make history and culture available virtually, including a very popular 3D tour of the Hallwyl House in Stockholm.