Epic Games has released a free app that lets cell phone users create virtual realities

A wider release for iOS will launch sometime in spring, the company said, followed by an Android version later this year. — Screengrab from YouTube/Capturing Reality

CARY: Cary's Epic Games, the juggernaut behind Fortnite and Rocket League, has developed a new 3D scanning app that turns smartphone photos into virtual realities.

RealityScan captures complicated photogrammetry — the science of rendering three dimensional models from two-dimensional imagery — in a free and user-friendly app, according to Epic.