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LiDAR Over the Air

Turn your iPhone into a professional spatial capture tool. Stream depth, color, and point cloud data over the network in real time — no expensive hardware required.

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LOTA depth map visualization

Capture Modes

Four ways to see the world

Switch between modes in real time. Every mode leverages your iPhone's LiDAR sensor and full camera array.

LOTA Color mode

Color

Live RGB camera feed at 60 FPS with real-time LiDAR depth fusion. What you see is what you capture.

LOTA Monochrome mode

Monochrome

High-contrast grayscale feed — ideal for low-light environments and precision spatial scanning.

LOTA Depth mode

Depth

LiDAR depth visualization with 9 selectable colormaps including thermal, incandescent, and deep sea.

LOTA Point Cloud mode

Point Cloud

Real-time 3D point cloud with true RGB colors. Configurable frame window and point density up to 12,500 points per frame.

Network Streaming

Stream to any receiver

Send LiDAR depth, color, point cloud, and camera tracking data over the network in real time. Four protocols, all independently configurable, all running simultaneously.

NDIIndustry-standard video-over-IP. Auto-discovered by TouchDesigner, OBS, vMix, and Resolume.
TCP / UDPH.264 video for color modes, raw Float32 depth maps for depth and point cloud. Configurable host and port.
OSCReal-time camera position, rotation, and euler angles streamed at 30 Hz over UDP.
PLYLive point cloud data streamed as CSV frames for TouchDesigner via TCP/IP DAT.
LOTA streaming settings

In Action

Enhance your TouchDesigner workflows

Stream live point cloud data from your iPhone straight into TouchDesigner. No capture cards, no expensive rigs — just your phone and a Wi-Fi connection.

LOTA Gaussian Splat export

3D Export

Gaussian splats & point clouds

Capture posed camera frames with ARKit intrinsics, extrinsics, and LiDAR point clouds. Export COLMAP-compatible binary datasets ready for training with OpenSplat, Nerfstudio, or gsplat — directly from your iPhone.

COLMAP-compatible export — cameras.bin, images.bin, points3D.bin

Standalone PLY export — unlimited point accumulation across your entire session

iCloud sync — pick an export folder and captures sync automatically

Compatible everywhere — Blender, CloudCompare, MeshLab, and any PLY tool