Scan your own 3D characters into Minecraft with Intel RealSense camera | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi

Scan your own 3D characters into Minecraft with Intel RealSense camera | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi
Mark Day, chief executive of VoidAlpha, has created Minescan, an app that allows you to scan a physical object into Minecraft. You can scan in a character like an octopus or squirrel, and the app will convert it into voxel style, or blocky graphics. You can then insert the digitized character into the Minecraft game.

Minecraft has a style all its own.

How Minecraft Creator Persson Almost Took a Job at Valve - Eric Johnson - General - AllThingsD

How Minecraft Creator Persson Almost Took a Job at Valve - Eric Johnson - General - AllThingsD - This chapter from “Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and the Game that Changed Everything,” excerpted with permission of the authors, tells the tale.

I think it's pretty clear that none of the "innovative" companies like Apple, Microsoft or whatever would ever green light a project like Minecraft. I mean at Apple, for 20 years, if you were a 3rd party developer and didn't have an icon that looked like a piece of furniture from The Sims you were treated like a leper.