TDLidar

Your iPhone LiDAR is now a 3D camera. Capture Point Cloud Photos, orbit them, export PLY, and paint Raw mode with 15 topographic colour maps. Built for TouchDesigner.

Capture depth. Stream it. Now relive it in 3D.

TDLidar streams your iPhone's LiDAR and TrueDepth depth over NDI and OSC straight into TouchDesigner for live performance, projection mapping, and installation work. Version 8.0 adds a 3D camera on top of it.

New Features: Point Cloud Photos

Freeze the live cloud into an interactive 3D capture Orbit, pan and pinch-zoom with natural touch controls — a TouchDesigner-style 3D viewer on your phone Tap to save a 3D model; hold to record an orbit video Export to PLY (Files) and save orbit videos to Photos Works on the rear LiDAR scanner or the front TrueDepth camera Raw mode, in colour (Pro)

15 topographic colour maps, each with its own contour-line pattern Adjustable line thickness and a global colour grade Default look unchanged — colour is opt-in Built for the stage

iPhone 16 Camera Control: drive live parameters from the hardware button, hands-free Low-latency NDI depth + OSC tracking to TouchDesigner Multiple devices on one network, each with a unique source name Free to scan and stream. Pro unlocks Point Cloud Photos, topographic colour maps, HD output and the advanced controls.

App Features:

NDI Depth Streaming Send the front TrueDepth or rear LiDAR feed over NDI in real time. Every depth mode — Environment, Face Detail, Raw, Point Cloud — runs on both cameras. 15 colormaps, raw depth mode, topographic banding, posterisation, depth clipping, and live HD upscale. Every visual setting changes the stream immediately, so you can dial in the look from the iPhone while the receiving machine renders.

OSC Tracking ARKit body, face, and hand tracking streamed as OSC bundles to TouchDesigner. The body tracker is rebuilt on Apple's new 3D body-pose model with LiDAR depth fusion — your skeleton arrives in TD with proper metric depth, not a flat projection. Every hand landmark carries a Z value. Plus motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, altitude), live audio analysis (FFT bands, levels, beat detection), and on-device speech transcription via SFSpeechRecognizer. All packaged into clean OSC namespaces with sensible defaults.

Point Cloud Streaming (Pro) Send a real point cloud to TouchDesigner — Fixed Grid layout, adjustable density, point size, on-device viewer with X/Y/Z flip toggles, send-color on/off. Now works correctly on both the front and rear cameras.

Pro Features HD upscale, extended LiDAR range, point cloud streaming, point cloud OSC, raw mode customisation, and the premium colormap pack. Available as a one-time lifetime purchase.

WHO IT'S FOR

VJs running live visuals — get a depth-aware camera into Resolume in under a minute.

Projection-mapping artists — drive masks and warps from real-world depth, not a flat camera.

AR / installation developers — prototype with ARKit body and face tracking sent straight into a TouchDesigner patch, no Xcode project required.

Streamers + content creators — depth alpha mattes for cleaner subject keying in OBS, no green screen.

WHY IT WORKS

• Real NDI® Advanced SDK — full bandwidth, low latency, no transcoding hop. • On-device speech and audio analysis — nothing leaves your network. • Built for live performance — every Pro setting can be changed mid-show without dropping the stream. • No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics. Camera and microphone data stay on the phone or on your local network. Period.

REQUIREMENTS

iPhone with front TrueDepth camera or rear LiDAR scanner. iOS 18.6 or later. A receiver running NDI Tools, TouchDesigner, OBS with the NDI plug-in, or any NDI-aware app on the same network.

Download TDLidar, plug your iPhone into your show, and stop fighting your tools.

TDLidar Pro is available as a $29.99 one-time lifetime purchase. No subscription.