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The Matrix effect with LIDAR, Unity, and ARKit

The new iPhones have a distance sensor called Lidar and a bunch of software which basically scans and builds a 3D model of your environment on the phone, which gets very accurately overlaid on top of the real world.

PS: see how the person is standing IN FRONT of the code? That’s being done with real time occlusion, as the Lidiar sensor detects the person being closer to the phone than the wall, so it draws a mask in real time to hide the falling code.

3D Scanning with Object Capture

by Ethan Saadia

🐨 Scanning a koala with just an iPhone! 📱

Object Capture is a new feature part of RealityKit that lets you create accurate 3D models just by taking photos of an object.

I 3D scanned this koala by taking 64 photos of it from all angles with Apple's sample capture app on my iPhone. RealityKit uses technology called photogrammetry to stitch together the overlapping parts of each photo, combining depth and accelerometer data if available, into a 3D model that you can export to USDZ for use in games, animations, or augmented reality.

Integrating 3D scanning into a social platform like Tumblr would make it easy to create and share immersive content with the world and view it right in front of you with AR Quick Look. From delicious food to unboxing reveals to travel scenes, the possibilities of Object Capture are endless!

My AR apps for learning circuits with Raspberry Pi and shopping at the Apple Store both require 3D models of real objects, so Object Capture will be a huge help to the development process. View my augmented reality work to learn more here!

Everyone's darling, Miran!

The Inverted Man Falling by The Detroit Escalator Co.  from the album Excerpts (2020) on Peacefrog Records.