Meta's ShapeR turns messy videos into editable 3D objects
Meta just open-sourced ShapeR, a conditional 3D generation framework that reconstructs casual video captures into individual, metrically accurate 3D meshes. By combining SLAM points with rectified flow transformers, it avoids baking an entire scene into a single uneditable blob. Why it matters: Creators and roboticists can now pull individual, real-scale 3D assets straight from phone-recorded video.