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Matthew Mensley

Digital media professional and senior editor at All3DP, Matthew (Matt, or "Oi you") has spent almost a decade reporting on professional and desktop 3D printing.

With a focus on the "consumer" or hobbyist side of the industry, he covers news, reviews, buyer's guides, and features – taking what can be a daunting space of technical jargon and making it accessible to everyone.

Got a tip, idea, feedback or critique? Contact him at matthew@all3dp.com

Professional inquiry? Email, or connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Reconstructing Mosul
This Concept Plans to Rebuild Mosul with 3D Printing Bots and Drones

The Five Farming Bridges project posits thousands of clean energy homes and farms, possible thanks to spiders 3D printing the city's rubble.

by Matthew Mensley Nov 3, 2017
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Organizing the Virtual World's Information
Google Launches Poly, a Full-Color 3D Model Library

Internet giant Google has opened a 3D asset library. Called Poly, the repository teems with everyday and exotic objects for VR/AR creation.

by Matthew Mensley Nov 2, 2017
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Pinching Virtual Pennies
Hackaday User Builds Budget Stereoscopic 3D VR Camera

Hackaday user Colin Pate has built his own 3D VR camera. Detailed across an in-depth Hackaday project, you can too.

by Matthew Mensley Nov 1, 2017
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So Metal
LLNL Researchers Develop Process to Print Stronger Steel

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed a metal 3D printing process that yields stronger steel than current methods.

by Matthew Mensley Nov 1, 2017
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Smartphones, Smarter VR
Furion Software Could Bring High Quality VR to Your Smartphone

Researchers at Perdue University have outlined a new software solution to the limitations of underpowered smartphone-driven VR.

by Matthew Mensley Nov 1, 2017
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Pixel Power
Pimax 8K VR Headset Kickstarter Projected to Pass $3.5-Million

Promising a VR future with peripheral vision and no motion sickness, proven Kickstarter campaigner Pimax is set to trounce its $200,000 goal.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 31, 2017
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Corn of the Dead
Keep Trick-or-Treaters at Bay with a 3D Printed Candy Corn Launcher

Halloween is here, and that means the minions of darkness are not far behind. Protect yourself with this 3D printed candy corn launcher.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 31, 2017
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New Bones
Doctors Plan to 3D Print Bone Implants Mid-Surgery

Surgeons in Australia are researching the use of 3D printing and robotics. They hope to make bone implants mid-surgery to help treat cancer.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 30, 2017
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Old Masters, New Tech
Old Masters Artworks Digitized for VR Museum Experience

A 70 large collection of 17th-century Dutch Old Masters artworks have been digitized and housed in a specially commissioned VR museum.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 27, 2017
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Data-Driven Art
White Noise AR Art Shows Us We’re All Terrible People

Art installation White Noise pits consumption vs. conservation against each other on Twitter to determine the fate of an AR coral reef.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 27, 2017
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STEM Sells
Catalan Start-up Introduces Educational Drone Kit to Teach STEM

BonaDrone offers up the new Mosquito 150, an educational drone kit that includes plans to wire, assemble and 3D print parts.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 26, 2017
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Long Live the Kinect
The Kinect is Dead: Microsoft Discontinues Xbox Motion Sensor

Microsoft ceases production of its Kinect motion tracking sensor for the Xbox. Herald of a gaming future that was never to be, it lives on as an cheap and efficient scanning tool. So grab one quick.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 26, 2017
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It's No Wicket
3D Print Your Own Star Wars Porg

A new Star Wars trailer has been out weeks, and already the 'net has nailed a 3D printable model of the trilogy's Ewok equivalent, the Porg.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 25, 2017
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Lightening the Load
Lytro Announces Innovative VR Rendering Software

by Matthew Mensley Oct 24, 2017
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X-perimental Box
A Look Inside the Lab that Prototyped the Xbox One X

Wired Magazine report glimpses the rapid prototyping facility Microsoft uses to mock up its products, including the new Xbox One X.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 23, 2017
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Wrecktacular
Researchers Digitize WW2 Shipwreck, Viewable in VR

Marine archaeology project Presence in the Past brings WW2 shipwreck the SS Thistlegorm to VR, thanks to photogrammetry.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 20, 2017
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Samsung Unveils 360-Degree VR 3D 4K Video Camera

Korean electronics giant Samsung has revealed the 360 Round camera, promising professional streamable 4K VR content on demand.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 19, 2017
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New Frontiers
What is Mixed Reality? Microsoft Launches New VR Hardware

In tandem with its Fall Creators update for Windows 10, Microsoft has launched its new 3D visualization platform: Mixed Reality.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 18, 2017
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Designs for the Ages
Dutch High-Tech Design: Joris Laarman Lab Exhibition in NYC

Dutch studio Joris Laarman Lab, designer of the MX3D steel bridge, is subject of an exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 17, 2017
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Print Your Own Steve?
Minecraft Update Lets You Officially Export 3D Models

World-building gets a new meaning in the latest Minecraft update. Players can now export creations to Remix 3D - possibly 3D printing them.

by Matthew Mensley Oct 17, 2017
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