SpAItial launches Echo-3 to turn iPhone scans into metric-scale 3D worlds

The iOS app reconstructs spaces as explorable Gaussian splats; SpAItial is also offering enterprise API access and a free first month.

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Primary source: x.com

Why it matters

Echo-3 puts SpAItial's 3D-world research into an iPhone capture app and an enterprise API. Its commercial case rests on delivering useful, real-scale geometry from ordinary phone recordings, while customers also need to weigh the service's scan-data terms.

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SpAItial launched Echo-3 on October 27th, a model that turns iPhone video captures into explorable 3D reconstructions measured at real-world scale. CEO Matthias Niessner (@MattNiessner) announced the product in a company blog post and a thread on X. The companion capture app is available for iPhone, with an enterprise API also offered for companies integrating reconstruction into their products and workflows.…

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