We especially wanted to produce something with more applications. We decided that we wanted to do something else but our expertise was scanners so that was the natural progression. Our previous scanners really could only scan faces, but we wanted to go further and that is why we needed to restart from scratch with a new company and product.
“In only a few years into our first company we really saw that we were a frontier company in the world of scanners.
Q – So once you all sold your first company, why immediately start all over again with another? I knew right from the beginning that we were on to something big.” When I was invited into the first scanner project by these friends I instantly saw the potential. It had more to do with the fact that we were engineers and we wanted to apply our knowledge. I had a job at the time (albeit it was not the job of my dreams, it was a trucking company administration job. But saying that, I want to make it clear that it was not only about money. We knew we had to do something extraordinary to create a successful business because the economic climate was so uncertain. This was just after the 1998 Russian financial crash. “The core Artec 3D team all graduated from the same university in the late 1990s. Q – Sergey, what was your motivation for taking the risk to develop a start-up? They then set up offices in Switzerland, Silicon Valley and Russia. Originally from Russia, all of the founders knew each other in university and in fact they were one of the first teams in Russia that received international venture capital funding. Their first was A4Vision a successful 3D face recognition technology company that they eventually sold in 2007 to a public company and which in turn was acquired by Bioscrypt in 2006. The Artec 3D team has been working together since 1999 and the current company is their second project. This latest version of their product is so simple to use that Sergey, who used to have to travel the world to give demonstrations at fairs and trade events, no longer needs to as anyone can use it on their own. And this is all you need to remember for making a high quality 3D replica of your object. Prompted by the simple colour scheme on the screen, all you need to do is make sure to keep the right distance from the object – red is too close, blue is too far away, and green is just perfect. The device autonomously collects and processes all the data on-board, without connecting to a computer. You turn the 3D scan function on and you just walk around the object you are scanning. During the interview and tour we were given a demonstration using a ceramic sheep as the model. Artec 3D’s brand new wireless scanner is simple to use and incredibly intelligent.
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