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by sneak 721 days ago
Both my iPhone and my Apple Vision Pro both have lidar scanners, fwiw.

Frankly I’m surprised that I can’t easily make crude 3D models of spaces with a simple app presently. It seems well within the capabilities of the hardware and software.

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Those LiDAR sensors on phones and VR headsets are low resolution and mainly used to improve the photos and depth information from the camera. Different objective than mapping a space, which is mainly being disrupted by improvements from the self driving car and ADAS industries
Magic Room for the AVP does a good enough job. Seems the low resolution issue can be augmented/improved by repeated/closer scans.