Artec 3D unveils world’s first high-speed full-body 3D scanner at Arraya Shopping Centre

Artec 3D, a global market leader in 3D scanners, and Kuwait-based company 3D Utopia, are unveiling the world’s first high-speed full-body 3D scanner for 3D portraits for the first time in Kuwait at Arraya Shopping Centre on 15th July 2015 at 10 PM. Artec Shapify Booth will help customers experience 3D technologies firsthand in a way that’s easy, fun and affordable. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, is expected to attend the unveiling of the scanner.

Artec Shapify Booth offers a unique new way of capturing life’s most important milestones like graduations, marriages and pregnancies in the form of a shapie – a 3D portrait. A shapie not only gives the one-of-a-kind experience of being scanned in a full-body booth, but is a memorable gift or memento that captures your unique style and self-expression. Photos are an all-too-common sight in our homes and on our desks. Shapies are a new way to preserve and display our favorite memories in high quality and vivid color.

Ideal for venues such as theme parks, shopping malls, outdoor and indoor attractions, the Shapify Booth is perfect for capitalizing on existing customer flows and drawing new ones. The booth includes 4 wide view high resolution 3D scanners which rotate around the customer, built-in lighting system, a high speed processor and 3D modeling software. The Booth scans customers in only 12 seconds; in 5 minutes a detailed 3D model is created automatically, and in 15 minutes, the high-quality 3D-printable file is completed. These high-precision scanners, used in the aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries to guarantee quality control, capture even the slightest specifics, down to wrinkles on clothes. Now with Shapify Booth and its accompanying user-friendly software, the scanners can be controlled by simply pressing one button.

“We are very excited to present our Shapify booth in Kuwait, especially after the positive response we received at the DEAL show in Dubai earlier this year,” said Artyom Yukhin, president and CEO of Artec 3D. “The Shapify booth has been significantly popular in Asia, the U.S. and Western Europe, and we are thrilled to be sharing our 3D technologies with consumers in the Middle East. Although 3D technology, specifically 3D printing, is widely heard of in the news, it has not reached the stage where it is easily accessible to the average consumer. We aim to change this and believe the Shapify Booth can become many people’s first interaction with 3D technologies. Through Shapify booth, we also endeavor to showcase the opportunities that 3D scanning and printing technology presents to enterprises and companies in the Middle East”.

Artec’s highly sophisticated software automatically merges together hundreds of generated images to produce a full-body 3D image file ready for 3D printing, without any post-processing. Finally, the digital model is then sent to a 3D printing center to make a full color mini-statue which can be delivered to or collected by the customer.

 “We have been the authorised partner for Artec 3D in the GCC for over a year and we’ve started marketing Artec handheld scanners. We are glad to collaborate for their first Shapify Booth in Kuwait. We are optimistic that ‘Shapie’, the 3D version of your body, will take the ‘selfie’ concept to the next level.  As 3D printing and scanner suppliers, we are in a position to give a complete proposition to clients in the region,” said Ashish Panjabi, COO, Jacky’s Business Solutions L.L.C.  

The Shapify Booth will be situated on the ground floor near Caribou Coffee and will be available for customer trial.