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Experimental Android 3D scanning and point-cloud viewer
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GITHUB · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 504 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- 3d-scanning
- android
- photogrammetry
- point-cloud
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Could you build this?
Partial An Android app that captures depth or camera frames and renders a point cloud is feasible with ARCore and a GPU viewer, and vibe coding can produce the UI and viewer. Turning raw captures into accurate, registered 3D models requires computer vision and SLAM expertise.
What it would actually take: Build a Kotlin or Android NDK app using ARCore's Depth API or camera pose tracking, with an OpenGL or Vulkan point-cloud renderer and file export (PLY or OBJ). The hard part is capture quality: pose estimation, frame registration, fusion, and meshing, usually drawing on TSDF or photogrammetry techniques. That requires computer-vision expertise and real-device testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1996 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 1997 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 380 days after the earliest competitor.
- TETrack3D · github · 2026-09-26 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- 3D to 2D, point clouds flattening (geometry images) · hn · 2026-11-09 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- A 3D Body Scan for Nine Cents · hn · 2026-03-30 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Nasscad · hn · 2026-10-28 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- SunShot · github · 2026-11-08 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world · hn · 2026-09-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- listing-to-3d · github · 2026-09-30 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- LEDGER · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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