Elliott Spelman

I couldn't be more proud to announce Polycam's Vision 25 launch today. The collective effort of my colleagues has made the past few months of work the most enriching, meaningful, and fun period of my career. youtube.com/watch?v=t5fCj1…

Prior to the election, I wrote a piece that I'd like to share: docs.google.com/document/d/1L5… It's about Taoism, specifically the Tao Te Ching, as a source of guidance for how to mentally prepare for the election and its aftermath. I've been told it's helpful for some 💜☯️

Several enhancements to @Polycam3D's 3DGS were released today, including custom video, cropping, and most notably measuring your captures. The latter of which I don't believe has been seen publicly on a platform before. 🔗radiancefields.com/polycam-adds-3…

@heyBarsee That NBA demo uses @Polycam3D, and the toy car scanning project might as well. (shameless self-promotion)

The pace of AR x AI is incredible right now. 🤯 And it's just the beginning. Here are 13 incredible use cases of AR I've ever seen:

@HammadTime @suno_ai_ ya, music feels like the hardest field for genAI. The copyright cooldown is very much looming, and nobody is better at enforcing copyright law than the music industry.

Pretty sure @suno_ai_ is trained on copyright music? app.suno.ai/song/be538555-… This regurgitates the exact cadence and tone of the original song. youtube.com/watch?v=LdcZul…

@kcimc @Polycam3D @LumaLabsAI we might’ve gone a bit too hard

i wonder if @Polycam3D is losing customers to @LumaLabsAI

@jasontoff @nickkruge I love Rooms and I think you should just launch it! Make sure (100% important) to prompt for reviews once a user has reached a certain level of comfort with the product, like created a Room or viewed X number: developer.apple.com/documentation/…

Two months and one day ago we launched the Rooms beta for iOS on Testflight with a public link to download. When @nickkruge asked what we'd do if we hit Apple's 10,000 tester limit, I replied something like, "that'd be a good problem to have." Good problem, yes, but a problem nonetheless. My daily routine recently includes manually deleting random public link testers to make room for new testers, hoping that the ones I delete aren't active users (since we don't get any session data from public link downloads). Since this isn't an ideal system, we're switching today to requiring users request access to the beta, and then we'll invite them via email. This way, we'll prevent accidentally removing active testers. Request form is now live at rooms.xyz/ios

@alexcarliera Hey Alex! I work at @Polycam3D , and you might've seen it but we just released a Gaussian Splatting tool today. I'm curious to know how we can make the export format (currently a PLY) work with your project in Blender. DM me if you're interested in connecting!

Gaussian Painters imported into #b3d as ellipsoids (3D Gaussian Splatting plugin for Blender - work in progress)

super proud of the team on this one 💜 splats are so cool - it's the same feeling for me as first discovering photogrammetry. Feels like a true leap forward in 3D capture.

@HammadTime @l4stewar are we at reverse psychology yet?

@l4stewar Peer pressuring AI should be ok

@maxbittker this is legit one of the coolest things I've seen built in a really long time. I spent easily 45 minutes on it last night, actually going through the checklist. You should be so proud of this work!!

river.maxbittker.com 🌀👁️🌀👁️🌀 clear your mind & navigate through image-space

@hturan i got to play with it last week, too! I have many thoughts - we should catch up about it :)

wonderful time at apple hq in battersea today developing on the vision pro! ✴️ huge thanks to all the folks on-hand answering questions and keeping things running. everyone working on an app for visionOS should sign up for the developer labs — developer.apple.com/visionos/labs/

polycam making weird little videos these days

@hturan come say hi!!

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@kitvolta don't get discouraged

@iamelizasj Just echoing other responses here that the key for me was realizing the function ran for *every* pixel individually. Things like grids, checkerboards, and gradients are super helpful at the beginning.

question for the shader lovers out there:

@kcimc just wanted to pick ur brain

caption contest

@ThingsByThings love this!

You can now edit things with our built-in voxel editor

@krazyykrunal @Polycam3D @johnsonmichaelb yep - any iOS device with a LiDAR sensor

@Polycam3D @johnsonmichaelb Will this work with iPad Pro as well?

We are so excited to introduce Polycam ROOM MODE!  Capture spaces *instantly* Get 2D/3D floor plans with walls, doors, windows, AND furniture 🪑 🛏️ 🛋️ 🪟 🚪 🛁  🚽 Export as mesh, point cloud, LiDAR, and 2D vector - use in any software. #3dmodeling #LiDAR

@madduey82 @Polycam3D It looks like SketchUp for iPad doesn't import anything but other SketchUp files: forums.sketchup.com/t/ipad-app-imp… You could try importing on desktop and then editing the file on iPad

@Polycam3D On ipad how can I export a model to use in sketchup on ipad? Everything I try doesn't work. Or is it only supported on sketch up for desktop?