LOTA - LiDAR Over the Air

LOTA: LiDAR Over The Air

Your iPhone is already a professional capture device. LOTA unlocks it.

Stream live camera, depth, point clouds, motion data, audio analysis, and speech transcription straight from your iPhone into TouchDesigner, OBS, vMix, Resolume, Notch, or any NDI-compatible application. No rigs, no capture cards, no expensive sensors.

What you can capture
- Camera and Depth: live RGB, monochrome, and LiDAR depth video with nine selectable colormaps.
- Point Clouds and Gaussian Splats: real-time colored 3D point clouds you can paint by walking around your subject. Export ready for COLMAP, Nerfstudio, gsplat, and Blender.
- Material Capture: tap a surface, lock the plane, and bake albedo, roughness, and normal maps for PBR shaders.
- Blob Tracking: replace a Kinect plus Blob Track TOP with a single phone. Works on a moving camera, no background plate required.
- Motion: stream acceleration, gyroscope, compass, and barometric pressure over OSC for sound and visual reactivity.
- Audio Analysis: real-time levels, beats, and frequency band analysis streamed over OSC.
- Live Transcription: turn the iPhone into a wireless speech-to-text source for creative tools.

How it streams
NDI for video over IP, OSC for tracking and sensor data, TCP and UDP for compressed video and raw depth, and a dedicated point cloud channel for TouchDesigner. All transports auto-discoverable, all independently toggle-able.

Works on every iPhone
LiDAR-equipped iPhones unlock the full feature set. Non-LiDAR phones use an on-device AI depth fallback and every non-depth mode.
LOTA is free. No subscriptions. No telemetry. Just sensors, on the network, where you need them.