Sparlit: 3D Social Media

The app hasn’t changed much over the past month, and needs more people contributing to make it worthwhile. In addition, the way that the 3D models are displayed is inside of an invisible box that doesn’t scale with the model, so too bad if you wanted to view an object that is larger. The bounding box doesn’t scale up with the model, so it crops the object you’re looking at. This can be very frustrating as a user. The way that Apple displays USDZ files natively in Safari is much better, unfortunately. Another thing that I find incredibly annoying as a user is the way that the objects will rotate in the instances of it. Your hand moves one way and the object seemingly rotates another way… This app has a long way to go if it wants to garner more downloads/views.

Overall I like this idea of a 3D model “feed” where you can browse new models. It’s missing some pretty important features, like displaying the model in its real size dimensions. In the Vision Pro App, the model clips out because the bounding box that the model sits in is too small. This leads to clipped models/geometry. Some of the textures don’t display correctly in the iPhone/Vision Pro apps, like metallic for instance. I would like the ability for people to download my models that I’ve uploaded, but there’s only a way to share in the Sparlit app. It would be nice to download the .usdz format. This app overall is fun, new and exciting but I don’t like using it because of the issues I mentioned.

Easy interface and quality content!