• Hitem3D is focusing on 3D printing for its image-to-3D AI system. • Image-to-3D systems have been around for about a year, with massive improvements in quality taking place. • The idea is to present a 2D image of a subject to the AI model, which then “guesses” the hidden sides and generates what it believes to be a 3D model of the entire subject. • In practice, early image-to-3D systems really didn’t understand the backside of subjects, and they were often just rounded shapes to “fill in the gap”. • These were effectively unusable for most practical purposes. • However, over time the AI models gained more smarts through extensive training.

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  • Hitem3D is focusing on 3D printing for its image-to-3D AI system. Image-to-3D systems have been around for about a year, with massive improvements in quality taking place. The idea is to present a 2D image of a subject to the AI model, which then “guesses” the hidden sides and generates what it believes to be a 3D model of the entire subject. In practice, early image-to-3D systems really didn’t understand the backside of subjects, and they were often just rounded shapes to “fill in the gap”. These were effectively unusable for most practical purposes. However, over time the AI models gained mo

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