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December 13, 2010

Catching the 3D wave: Direct Dimensions' cool tech

My colleague, Jamie Smith Hopkins, had a great one-on-one with Michael Raphael, the president of Direct Dimensions, a 3D imaging company based in Owings Mills.

The company has created digitized 3D images of everything from submarines to sculptures. At the moment, the firm is digitizing portions of the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

It plans to spin off a company called ShapeShot, which will specialize in digitizing/3D-izing people's faces for use in online communications and video gaming.

Imagine inserting your face into a video game or even a movie?

Here's the interview.

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Categories: Entrepreneurs & Risk Takers, Gadgets

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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