![]() Apple says the tool can help customers "make more informed decisions by using RoomPlan to create a floor plan of a room directly in your apps" with applications in real estate, e-commerce, or even hospitality. As noted, this isn't a feature in and of itself, but rather a tool for developers to create new apps and experiences for users. The new RoomPlan feature is a much-touted upgrade in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 that will let developers create room scanning tools for users on devices like iPhone 13 and M1 iPad Pro (2021). ![]() APIs are available for end-to-end scanning experience, real-time data structures for custom UI creation, and both USD and USDZ generation of 3D room models. The framework uses a device's sensors, trained machine learning models, and RealityKit rendering capabilities to capture the physical surroundings of an interior room. I’m just saying there is potential to it.The RoomPlan framework is now available in iOS & iPadOS 16, enabling 3D parametric model creation of an interior room. Doesn’t have to be an app and definitly its not McNeels domain. I mean I would pay 200 $ for such an software. I mean its not that a lidar system is inaccurate, its just the lack of density.įurthermore, its not about getting a perfect scan, its about making good enough for hobby usage. But its already a hugh gain for something which has to fit to something more complex, more “free form”. ![]() Of course you have to measure things manually and refit the scan to it. And yes, you can already use that for creating a very rough shape reference. Some research applications where able to already do some of these things I was mentioning quite well. That was disappointing at well, but one thing it maked me clear is the fact, that its not an hardware limitation in first place. In parallel I bought some Intel RealSense cameras. Then I saw the first presentations, knowing this was not useful at all as it is. The problem is indeed that any useful 3d scanner is out of range for hobby usuage (< below 2000$). I was really curious once they announced that. But let’s just say I’d only trust that ‘cleaned up’ scan as much as I trust a drunk guy and a stoned one being sent to a job site to take measurements: I’d use that input to know if a couch would fit, not to build custom cabinetry without me doing proper measurements I’ve seen some neat results for interior room scanning where they take the input and make it into a cleaned-up straight walls room, which is much better than all the real estate ‘3D tours’ that show you how the house you are considering buying would look after a fire. However it seems that there’s no money to be made in that space so no one in their right mind would put a team of expert scientists/developers to embark in such an alchemist project, for what? To sell a $9.99 app? this is maybe why the entire iPad ‘Pro apps’ ecosystem pretty much died, or is not financially viable. I think you are right that this combined with Photogrammetry could be potentially useful. But I also use real scanners too so maybe my expectations are skewed by having professional standards. Have you tried it Tom? I have tried both the iPad Pro and the iPhone 12 Pro, with several apps, they are equally limited and of questionable relevant use IMO. Making those inputs useful is not a side job, if doable at all.
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