Vision Pro will slowly cannibalize Apple's other hardware.

My bet on the order: iPad, Apple TV, MacBook, then iPhone (much later.)

Angel Say I just did this last Summer for the renovation/planning of our vacation rental abroad. Maybe a bit overkill for your purpose, but I used Metascan. Multiple scans combined in blender (all with the free version). Worked great in combination with Ikea kitchen designer, especially…

'It's just differentiable rendering. Been doing that since Neural Volumes/NeRF in 2019.'
- CV folks

'It uses seed & diffuse 3D reconstruction. PatchMatch Stereo showed that in 2011.'
- MVS folks

'Hah, it draws Gaussian splats! Try EWA splatting in 2002.'
- CG folks

#3DGS

Testing Gaussian Splatting composited with regular 3D in our web viewer.

3DGS WIP

Shout out to Stability AI and Emad for breaking the Terms of Service of Thingiverse, Sketchfab, Polycam, etc. which explicitly prohibit 'mining and scraping content.'

Lots of Object Capture updates coming:

- On-device preview (iPhone 12 Pro or better)
- Uses LiDAR Scanner
- Guided Capture UI
- Exposes camera poses
- Custom detail options
- Faster reconstruction
- Bundled with Reality Composer Pro

Apple's firing on all cylinders.

Object Capture coming to iOS 17:

Dang it – guess I have to delete Luma AI from my phone.

Superb high-level article about Generative AI and its origins. VC’s with deep technical knowledge are a rare breed - Haomiao obviously knows his stuff