#wwdc

Wonder Woman!!

So, I like beefy women. I like women in general. I love Wonder Woman. 😮‍💨

Even if this one is kind of old, I still love it, it's too... Hot.

https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

Also, announcing ChatGPT integration and AI Image Generation baked into iOS 18, but then artificially making it an exclusive to the latest iPhone 15-model is just sad when a smart toaster could connect to your servers and run these ““A.I.”” features.

Watching this summary of the AI segment from the WWDC keynote, it struck me how Apple positioned the generative text features as highly useful for any setting, even a professional business setting, but specifically labeled the generative art features as a “playground” for use when messaging friends or spicing up your own personal notes.

It feels like they’re aware of the controversy of generative art and are just talking around it.

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!