SHARE C1 Personal 3D LiDAR Spatial Camera — Trust Report

Quick Verdict

As of July 27, 2026, the SHARE C1 by SHARE3DCAM scores 82/100 (Low Risk) on the BackerGuardian Trust Meter: an established Shenzhen survey-hardware maker repackaging proven industrial LiDAR for prosumers, with the main open question being backer-delivery confirmation, not whether the product is real. Guidance per the score band: low risk profile — proceed with standard diligence.

The campaign ended December 19, 2025, having raised HK$4,605,005 (~US$590,000) from 255 backers against a HK$77,740 goal — 5,923% funded (Kicktraq final tally). The product has since reached open retail sale, which is strong evidence production is real; direct backer-fulfillment confirmation is covered in the delivery section below.

Trust Meter Dimension Breakdown

Creator Credibility is the lowest dimension for one specific reason: the campaign ran on a brand-new Kickstarter account with zero prior campaigns. The score is rescued by the parent company being a verifiable industrial manufacturer rather than an anonymous founder — but a first-time Kickstarter account is a first-time Kickstarter account, and BG scores it as one.

What This Campaign Actually Was

The SHARE C1 is a handheld 360° LiDAR scanner that builds colorized 3D point clouds of rooms, buildings, and outdoor spaces as you walk, using SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) to track its own position. Claimed specs: better-than-1cm accuracy, 70m range, dual RGB cameras for colorization, and export to industry-standard formats (.las, .ply, .pcd) via the creator's PointClouds Studio desktop software (launch press release, Nov 4, 2025; current product page). The current retail listing adds detail: 200,000 points/second, 70m range at 80% reflectivity, 575g body plus 380g battery grip, up to 180 minutes of runtime.

The pitch was "pro-sumer cost-down": SHARE3DCAM's parent already sells industrial SLAM scanners (S20, S100 series) through survey-equipment channels (share3dcam.com product line); the C1 packages the same workflow at a fraction of industrial pricing. BG's scoring evidence attributes the sensor package to a Livox Mid-360-class unit — an industry-standard component, not exotic physics — which is why Technical Feasibility scored 90/100.

One naming trap worth repeating: this is not the ~$50 Slamtec RPLIDAR C1 robotics sensor. Same "C1" name, entirely different product class.

Who the Creator Is

SHARE3DCAM is the consumer brand of Shenzhen Share UAV Technology Co., Ltd, a maker of aerial oblique/mapping cameras and LiDAR scanners. Distributor profiles date the company's founding to 2016, with UAV R&D-lab roots at Shandong Academy of Sciences going back to 2010, and note DJI-ecosystem integration work such as the PSDK 102S payload for the Matrice 300 RTK (Edinburgh Drone Company distributor profile; SHAREUAV official site). BG's stored scoring evidence lists the founding as "est. 2010" — the more conservative reading of the sources is that 2010 marks the research-lab lineage and 2016 the company itself. Either way, this is an operating hardware manufacturer with existing products, not a rendering-only startup. The campaign itself was run from Kowloon, Hong Kong under SHAREUAV LTD, on a Kickstarter account with no prior history.

Evidence Timeline

• Nov 4, 2025 — Campaign launches on Kickstarter; same-day press release announces the C1 with claimed specs and formats (Yahoo Finance/ACCESS Newswire). Creator's pre-launch signup marketing advertised super-early-bird pricing at $2,199.
• Nov 5, 2025 — Campaign announces it is fully funded, one day in (Kicktraq update log).
• Dec 19, 2025 — Campaign closes: HK$4,605,005 from 255 backers, average pledge HK$18,059 (~US$2,300) — a small-backer-count, high-ticket campaign (Kicktraq).
• Jan 2026 — Creator's estimated delivery window (per the campaign at intake; BG's December 2025 intake also recorded "mass production" as the claimed prototype status).
• As of Jul 27, 2026 — The C1 is on open retail sale at $3,999.00 on the creator's own store with China/EU/US warehouse options, and listed on Amazon US. The creator's store also now lists a "C1 PRO" successor model.

Delivery Status

The campaign promised January 2026 delivery. As of July 27, 2026, BG has not directly confirmed backer fulfillment — Kickstarter blocks automated reads of the campaign's update and comment sections, and no credible third-party report of backers receiving (or not receiving) units was found in this check.

What is verifiable: the exact product is in stock at retail through the creator's own store and Amazon US, and the creator has already listed a successor model. That is strong indirect evidence that mass production happened and units ship — it would be unusual (though not unheard of) for a manufacturer to fulfill retail channels while leaving crowdfunding backers unserved. Treat backer-delivery timing as unverified rather than confirmed; if you are a backer with ground truth either way, that is exactly the data point this record is missing.

Pricing Reality

• Kickstarter super early bird: $2,199 (creator's pre-launch marketing; full tier list not independently captured).
• Average actual pledge: HK$18,059 ≈ US$2,300 (Kicktraq).
• Retail today: $3,999.00 on the creator's store.

Taken at face value, campaign backers paid roughly 40–45% below the current retail price. The usual crowdfunding caveat applies in reverse here: the discount was real only because the product shipped to retail; on a failed campaign it would have been a 100% loss. BG does not maintain verified pricing for adjacent scanners (iPhone LiDAR, Leica BLK2GO, etc.) on this record, so no comparison table is published — the earlier version of this page carried category-filler rows, which have been removed.

Who This Is For

• Architects, contractors, and renovation professionals who want walk-through site capture into CAD/BIM formats without survey-firm dayrates.
• Game/VR developers and 3D artists capturing real environments (the campaign heavily marketed 3D Gaussian Splatting output; the launch press release listed 3DGS as "coming soon," and the current Amazon listing markets free 3DGS function usage — verify current software state before relying on it).
• Prosumers who have outgrown phone-based LiDAR and can justify a ~$4,000 tool.

Who Should Pass

• Robotics hobbyists who need a bare sensor — this is a finished handheld camera, not a component.
• Anyone needing survey-grade millimeter accuracy for legal or metrology work; better-than-1cm is an architectural spec, not a machining spec.
• Buyers who require confirmed post-delivery independent reviews: third-party retail-unit coverage exists but is thin, and BG has not verified backer fulfillment.
• Small-object scanning (jewelry, miniatures) — a structured-light scanner is the right tool, not long-range LiDAR.

Kill Switch Status

Not triggered. None of the three Kill Switch criteria (direct arbitrage/reselling of an existing listed product, fabricated creator identity, physically impossible claims) were detected at intake or in this July 2026 re-verification. The device is a genuine first-party product from an identifiable manufacturer.

Record Notes

This record was re-verified and rewritten on July 27, 2026. Material corrections from the prior version: the campaign ran in HKD, not USD (HK$4,605,005 raised ≈ US$590,000 — the prior record's "US$380,000" was wrong); backer count corrected from 320 to 255; campaign end date corrected from January 15, 2026 to December 19, 2025; a filler pricing table of non-comparable products (streaming webcams, action cams) was deleted. Score and dimension values are unchanged and come from BG's scoring machinery, not this edit.