A GLB, ready for AR on an iPhone.
Turn a GLB into a USDZ for AR Quick Look in your browser, nothing uploaded: materials and pictures kept, metres on Y, checked before you download it.
By Suraj Kumar4 min read
iPhones and iPads show 3D models in your room with AR Quick Look, which opens USDZ files. KeepSimp turns a GLB into a USDZ in your browser.
Drop the GLB and download the USDZ.
Open GLB to USDZ and drop the .glb on it. Press Download USDZ.
Before the file is offered, KeepSimp opens it again with its own reader and counts its triangles and measures its size; a file that does not match the model is not offered, and the page says what was wrong.
On an iPhone or iPad, open the USDZ from the Files app; AR Quick Look shows it through the camera.
What goes into the USDZ.
Its parts, materials and pictures, in metres standing on Y, as Apple's guidance for USD files asks. Pictures are written as PNG or JPEG at most 2048 pixels across.
Animations and the colours of corners are left out; the page names them before you download.
Checked with Apple's own tool.
KeepSimp's USDZ files are held in its tests to usdchecker --arkit, Apple's checker for AR Quick Look.
Further reading
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