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XGRIDS Scores Double Win at IFA 2026: PortalCam and LCC Scan Both Earn Netzwelt Innovation Awards

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XGRIDS wins the IFA 2026 Netzwelt Innovation Award with PortalCam & LCC Scan, turning physical spaces into production-ready digital twins in real time.

Berlin, Germany — September 16, 2026 — XGRIDS, the spatial intelligence company, has scored a double win at IFA 2026, with PortalCam and LCC Scan both taking home the Netzwelt IFA 2026 Innovation Award in the Industrial Innovation category. The recognition puts two of XGRIDS’ spatial imaging products in the spotlight at one of the world’s leading technology trade shows, underscoring XGRIDS’ growing presence at the intersection of spatial capture, imaging and real-world applications.

IFA 2026 brought together more than 1,900 exhibitors from 49 countries, turning Berlin into a global showcase for the latest technologies and products. As one of the leading and most authoritative technology media outlets covering consumer electronics and emerging technology, Netzwelt singled out 59 products for its 2026 Innovation Award out of the thousands of products presented at IFA 2026, recognizing products that are distinctive for their features, design or technical innovation. PortalCam and LCC Scan were both named winners in the Industrial Innovation category, which recognizes technologies that push beyond established product capabilities to introduce new forms of functionality and application.

Spatial Capture for Every Kind of Creator

PortalCam is XGRIDS' spatial camera designed to capture real-world environments as detailed 3D content. By combining spatial sensing with high-quality visual information, PortalCam enables teams to turn physical locations into digital environments for applications including virtual production, VFX, XR, 3D visualization and digital twins.

For professional production teams, the value lies not simply in recording a location, but in creating a spatially accurate and visually rich digital representation that can be reused across downstream workflows. A physical environment can be preserved as a digital asset and brought into production without requiring the same location to be recreated from scratch each time.

LCC Scan takes spatial capture in a different direction. Designed for iPhone, the solution brings 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) into a mobile workflow, allowing users to create photorealistic 3D representations directly on the device. With an on-device workflow and a simple capture-to-generation process, LCC Scan lowers the technical barrier to creating spatial content, extending 3DGS from specialized production environments to a broader range of creators and everyday use cases. LCC Scan made its award-winning debut at IFA 2026, earning recognition from Netzwelt at its first major public appearance. Launched shortly before IFA 2026, LCC Scan immediately earned recognition from Netzwelt, becoming one of just 59 products selected for its Innovation Award.

Together, PortalCam and LCC Scan showcase the breadth of XGRIDS' spatial capture capabilities, spanning professional spatial imaging and mobile 3D creation.

Netzwelt Innovation Award 09/2026 certificate presented to XGRIDS for LCC Scan, its iPhone 3D scanning app
Netzwelt Innovation Award 09/2026 certificate presented to XGRIDS for LCC Scan, its iPhone 3D scanning app

Already at Work in Professional Pipelines

XGRIDS goes beyond spatial capture to offer an end-to-end 3DGS solution, covering capture, reconstruction and integration into downstream workflows. The applications of XGRIDS' 3DGS solutions are already extending across media production, XR and other 3D workflows.

In South Korea, broadcaster SBS has integrated XGRIDS' LCC 3DGS Solution into its AIXR Studio for live XR news production, capturing real-world locations and converting them into photorealistic 3DGS environments that can be used within the studio's broadcast workflow. On the Apple TV+ series Shrinking, XGRIDS 3DGS solutions were used to pre-capture shooting environments for projection onto LED volumes, enabling actors to perform against photorealistic digital sets while reducing downstream compositing work. At NAB Show 2026, the XGRIDS PortalCam won four Product of the Year Awards across Cameras, Graphics/VFX/Switchers, Intelligent Technology, and Remote/Live Production, further highlighting the product's technical capabilities and growing recognition across the media and entertainment industry.

Together, these applications demonstrate how spatial capture can support both specialized professional workflows and more accessible forms of 3D content creation.

XGRIDS PortalCam spatial camera on a tripod beside four NAB Show Product of the Year 2026 trophies for virtual production
XGRIDS PortalCam spatial camera on a tripod beside four NAB Show Product of the Year 2026 trophies for virtual production

Building the Spatial Intelligence Layer for the Real World

From dedicated spatial scanners and cameras to mobile 3DGS tools and software for reconstruction, editing and downstream deployment, XGRIDS is building an integrated spatial intelligence technology stack that connects the real world with the digital world.

As spatial data becomes increasingly important across media, simulation, embodied AI, digital twins and other emerging applications, XGRIDS is developing the technologies needed to turn physical environments into rich, usable digital representations.

About XGRIDS

XGRIDS is a spatial intelligence company. It reconstructs real places at engineering-grade accuracy so professionals, everyday users, and the AI that learns from these spaces can work from the same data. Hardware covers spatial scanners (Lixel L series and K series) and spatial cameras (PortalCam). Software includes LixelStudio and LCC. Products are in use with 8,000+ customers across 80+ countries. The open LCC format is used in the NVIDIA Isaac Sim official workflow. Customers capture, process, and export in the device and local software. XGRIDS supplies the hardware and local tools. It does not provide surveying services, and does not access or retain project data.

Bridge Reality. Build Digital Worlds.

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XGRIDS provides hardware capture devices and local software tools only, and does not provide surveying/mapping services. All data is captured, stored, processed, and exported by the user; XGRIDS does not participate in on-site capture and does not access, control, or retain any user project data or deliverables.

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