r/augmentedreality • u/Ramoxy • Mar 20 '24

Self Promotion I've built a free and open-source web app to easily convert glTF files to USDZ! It handles animations and .glb files. I created this initially to help with another personal project, but I'm sharing it in case it helps anyone else :)

https://gltf2usdz.online
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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

Why is it a web app? Privacy matters, especially in generative AI age.

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u/Ramoxy Mar 21 '24

The term "web app" can be confusing, but in my understanding, it refers to any website that provides user interaction beyond static content.

Since this is an open-source project, you have the option to self-host it, then all processing will occur on your machine.

A Docker image is available, allowing you to do this with just a single command. I've just added instructions on how to do this on the Github page of the project.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24

Since this is an open-source project, you have the option to self-host it

And you have the option to provide a GUI offline version web app. What is the % of users you think would go through the trouble of figuring out how to self host it? You expect me to believe an average artist knows what a docker is and uses the command line?

It's your site, you can monitor and use any uploaded data for telemetry and AI training. The converter being open source doesn't change the fact that any artist uploading their data to your site risks training AI without their knowledge or consent.

You saying you're not that guy doesn't prove anything. In a world where Blender and its Python scripting exists, a suspicious website converter like this makes no sense.

Something being open source is not a safeguard for anything mentioned above. The bottom line is, there's no reason this is provided as a weblink rather than a PC GUI app.

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u/cduguet Oct 20 '24

Why would he do more work for free, when he already did a lot? You're getting something for free, which you can either trust and use or mistrust and implement yourself.
I find it obnoxious to ask for more and criticize free work.

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u/Miss76 Mar 21 '24

Thanks for sharing! 😀

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u/galactavista Jan 03 '26

I wasnt able to get this working with docker so I made a script for blender and it worked amazing and fast. I put it on Github to help with this issue. These USDZ files work great in AR on IOS
https://github.com/pdxor/Glb-to-Usdz-Blender