Dan Monaghan

I'm hoping I'm the first in the world to get Apple's Object Capture code working on the iPhone, I pulled an all nighter as soon as it was announced - was I? Official documentation comes out tomorrow -#augmentedreality #ios #iPhone #WWDC23

@DanyBittel Oh great - I've been wanting to see the data set- I've been curious about how you combined the focus-stacks. Processing now too!

I'm releasing the COLMAP dataset (1.9GB) I used for the Raspberry! Maybe somebody want to do a higher res version? A LichtFeld version would also be cool to see.

Not one, but six new Agent Skills! Early adopters improved Xcode build times by 78%. github.com/AvdLee/Xcode-B… After weeks of work, I launched my latest Agent Skill at Let’s Vision in Shanghai. Here’s how it works: It runs 3 clean + 3 incremental builds It analyzes build logs and project settings It proposes an optimization plan It applies improvements after you approve It re-benchmarks and reports the improvement All free → try it on your Xcode projects. Let me know how it goes in the replies, and open a PR if you add your results to the README!

OpenUSD v26.03 now supports 3D Gaussian Splats! Makes me confident we'll see it supported in the updated RealityKit at WWDC26 🔥

@alightinastorm Right now you just have a point cloud (a dark one at that) so they are not actual splats yet. You need to get the ellipsoid shape, scale and rotation working, which prob won’t effect render speed, just decoding.

So i vibe coded a threejs webgpu splat renderer from scratch in an evening with gpt 5.4 Introducing Spark++ Give it a week or two, performance is slightly worse on fast camera movements but 60 fps on my toaster in less dense areas. Had to reduce overall density for screen recording, but it works on webgpu! And I have absolutely no clue how Splats work, zero Demo: vibe-stack.github.io/sparkplusplus/ Repo: github.com/vibe-stack/spa…

@XRarchitect @gfodor @jmdagdelen Author of TrapCode plugin for After Effects, legendary. But yeah don’t need an image target. Just head tracking.

@gfodor @jmdagdelen Yooo what this is so well done 💯💯

Then view your new kitchen design in AR 🌎

@stspanho @playcanvas @sparkjsdev Depth is very stable? Or is that your work too!

From 2D video to a very rough 4D Gaussian Splatting POC on the Apple Vision Pro 👀 Took Big Buck Bunny frames, turned them into Gaussian splats with Sharp (Apple), compressed them with @playcanvas splat transform to SOG, and played all frames via WebXR + @sparkjsdev Still rough and not fully optimized, but wow, dynamic GS in AVP feels wild 🤯 Second part of the video is on my laptop #threejs

This Chinese streamer cut the Apple Vision Pro’s weight in half using a helium balloon.

@justinryanio Did you have to make a volume render that had Metal inside it to get this working?

Iconic macOS wallpapers recreated in 3D using Apple’s new ML-SHARP model.

@Digital_Reverie @oskargroth Do you run the model from the Mac too?

@oskargroth Pushing a packaged ui for this to GitHub in a few hours for macos

The SHARP model from Apple is pretty amazing. I was able to generate a surprisingly good 3D Gaussian splat from the Big Sur wallpaper in just a few seconds. This is the kind of tech that belonged in sci-fi movies not too long ago.

@steren @joshwoodward Agree - it would be nice to have references that don’t mean messing with git repo and gitignore hassles

@joshwoodward Read and Write to specific folders I grant access to, of course.

Imagine it's early 2026, and you're using a Gemini MacOS desktop app. What features *must* be there for you to love it? Anything you really want to see in the desktop app specifically?

@alpennec macOS Tahoe, like is it a regression in latest macOS or has this always been the case prior?

@danmonaghanz Pre 26, what do you mean? I’ve never used injection so I can’t compare.

One tip to speed up your SwiftUI previews 🤩 I wanted to centralize constants like opacity, spacing, or sizes used by my View to speed up prototyping. Stored properties: slow 🐌 as Xcode recompiles the file every time I tweak a value. Computed properties: instant updates 🏎️

@alpennec Any idea if it’s pre 26? It just makes SwiftUI preview no fun given it’s so slow, even InjectionIII seems quicker and I’ve wondered if it’s a better choice.

@danmonaghanz I filed a feedback following a discussion with someone working at Apple.

@Luckyballa Are you on a full Release profile? IDK if that makes as much of a difference on Vision Pro, but certainly does on iOS. Metal Splatter package is great but only if not in Debug mode.

Does anyone know why back-to-front hardware blending during rasterization of gaussians is 3x faster than front-to-back on Vision Pro? On Mac, it’s the same

@scottyd2g @broodsugar Just came here to say exactly that. It’s a work of art!

@broodsugar Its like a Picasso masterpiece

Our customers are getting results like this using only their phones - without our assistance on site.

@1Obefiend @Aurelien_Gz I think I was a bit complex with my take

today I'm all in on reflective uis

@Luckyballa I’ve been using the Metal Splatter packager but it definitely needs work and was pretty abandoned.

Spent the weekend porting Depth Anything V3 to Metal and MLX and found out that there is no fully GPU-driven GS renderer on GitHub (in Metal), so I’ve built one too Now I need to figure out what to open source first 🤔

@Luckyballa Is this a Metal renderer or web based? Looking forward to seeing your LOD implementation!!

5 million splats with harmonics on iPhone 15 This camera control should be very fun to play with when I am done tuning it

braintrance.net has one of the only public world generation models available for use --Today! Our gaussian splat worlds generate in *less* than a minute, and are really good at keeping the visuals of people!

@RoszykAdam What depth model did you choose?

Experimenting with alternative spatial photos rendering mode on VisionOS - Like if you'd like to give it a try, and I might put it up for test on the AppStore :]