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WIP Phone Scanner + Mac Companion

chamber musiciOS + macOS

Just another scanner app for the iPhone.

bornApril 20, 2026·currentv00000-002 · April 21, 2026

specimen Companion on Mac — inline preview of a reconstructed mesh with dimensions readout, rescale input, and Open OBJ / Reveal in Finder controls
Witnessing

Point your phone at a thing. Walk around it. A mesh comes out. Witness describes what was captured, in a registrar's voice. Afterwords lets six dead interlocutors — Yanagi, Benjamin, Thompson, Barthes, Kubler, Flusser — read the specimen from their inferred positions. Concordance names the mechanisms, not just the marketing terminology. Millimeters, Z-up. Free. Research software, not a content pipeline.

The phone

Captures with the hardware already in your pocket. LiDAR, TrueDepth, RGB. The mesh reconstructs locally at reduced detail; the Cabinet keeps every scan with its Witness and its Afterwords. You have to have a modern rig.

The Mac companion

Apple only exposes full-detail reconstruction on macOS. So specimen comes in two pieces. Share the capture package, AirDrop it across, drop it on Companion's drop circle. The Mac reconstructs at full detail and opens an inline preview.

witnessing — specimen is not ready to meet you yet.

specimen launch screen on iPhone — wireframe sphere behind the wordmark and a yellow Scan button

iPhone · launch

specimen capture view on iPhone

iPhone · capturing

specimen Cabinet entry on iPhone — saved scan with its Witness note

iPhone · cabinet

specimen Companion on Mac — drop zone awaiting a capture package

Mac · drop zone

specimen Afterwords view — six dead voices read the captured object

iPhone · afterwords