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.
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
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.