Developed and marketed by the Italian software house 3DFLOW, 3DF Zephyr was first released in January 2014 and continuously updated since then.
It allows 3D reconstruction from both photos or videos, by automatically extracting frames and selecting those most suitable for the computation.
Although the software is a Windows only application, it has been reported as fully working on Linux with the aid of Wine.
[3] The technology behind 3DF Zephyr has been completely in-house built by 3DFLOW, rather than relying on computer vision third party libraries like most of its competitors.
[8] All the 3DF Zephyr packages share the same proprietary reconstruction engine from 3DFLOW and bundle the automatic image masking software 3DF Masquerade, while the complete edition 3DF Zephyr bundles 3DF Scarlet which is a dedicated software for laser scan registration.