Martin Maly

founder of teleport: 360° camera (190k+ users, $11K/m) | prev working out of @fdotinc | @apple ssc scholar '23

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that converts any space into a digital clone in minutes

as the founder of Teleport - the only iphone app that can capture high-quality 360° panoramas - i already had the perfect input when @theworldlabs released their 3d reconstruction api

📍 first test - a co-working space in chiang mai 🇹🇭

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular image
3. reconstruct a fully navigable 3d environment via @theworldlabs api

there’s something profound about exploring these 3d worlds. it brings you back in a way photos never could.

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

spent the weekend turning my @bumpbyamo location data from the past year into a 3d scratch map

the taller the tower, the more times i've been in that area

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

a sneak peek into how real world language immersion could look like in the era of spatial computing

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@ErwinEdink @theworldlabs it does! you can publish directly to google street view from within teleport

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

update: enhanced 3d world generation just dropped in Teleport with @theworldlabs marble 1.1

16 iPhone photos → fully explorable 3d world in minutes

📸 golden gai, shinjuku 🇯🇵

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that converts any space into a digital clone in minutes

as the founder of Teleport - the only iphone app that can capture high-quality 360° panoramas - i already had the perfect input when @theworldlabs released their 3d reconstruction api

📍 first test - a co-working space in chiang mai 🇹🇭

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular image
3. reconstruct a fully navigable 3d environment via @theworldlabs api

there’s something profound about exploring these 3d worlds. it brings you back in a way photos never could.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

@mountain_mal @theworldlabs 🤩🌐

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

update: you can now generate a digital clone of your space by just looking at it

ray-ban meta glasses → fully navigable 3D world in minutes

📍 captured in tokyo opera city

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that converts any space into a digital clone in minutes

as the founder of Teleport - the only iphone app that can capture high-quality 360° panoramas - i already had the perfect input when @theworldlabs released their 3d reconstruction api

📍 first test - a co-working space in chiang mai 🇹🇭

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular image
3. reconstruct a fully navigable 3d environment via @theworldlabs api

there’s something profound about exploring these 3d worlds. it brings you back in a way photos never could.

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@thejcedeno https://t.co/VdjHZJOidG

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that turns any space into a digital clone just by looking at it

ray-ban meta glasses → fully navigable 3d world

📍 my friend’s studio in tokyo

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@tombielecki @Meta that is an awesome idea. thank you!

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@ColeWalhus these are gen 1

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@jit_infinity nope, this is using @theworldlabs

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

if you want to capture 3d worlds like this, you can try it in the teleport app today

meta integration coming once the sdk exposes imu data :)

finally, we’re hiring. if this kind of stuff excites you, dm me why you’d be a good fit

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

the meta wearables sdk is still pretty limited

no imu data, no white balance lock, lower resolution than native capture

i ended up wiring my own gyroscope into the glasses just to track orientation 😅

a ton of exciting things to build here, but first @meta pls expose imu

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@DareFailed appreciate it! i've definitely been inspired by the experiments you've been posting

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

update: this just went live in Teleport

capture a space → generate a fully navigable 3D world in minutes

📍 captured in a friend's apartment on Iriomote Island, Japan 🇯🇵

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that converts any space into a digital clone in minutes

as the founder of Teleport - the only iphone app that can capture high-quality 360° panoramas - i already had the perfect input when @theworldlabs released their 3d reconstruction api

📍 first test - a co-working space in chiang mai 🇹🇭

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular image
3. reconstruct a fully navigable 3d environment via @theworldlabs api

there’s something profound about exploring these 3d worlds. it brings you back in a way photos never could.

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

try it out today: https://t.co/VdjHZJOidG

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

finally. lots ahead ᯅ

📍apple store shinjuku, tokyo

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@th2049 @NanoBanana correct - 4k was taking just over a minute for me

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

a bunch of you said this would be huge for real estate 🏡

so i pushed it further: virtual staging just went 3d 👀

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular panorama
3. feed that into @NanoBanana with a staging prompt → generate a newly staged 360° image
4. reconstruct that into a fully navigable 3d world using @theworldlabs

you’re not just staging photos anymore -
you’re staging space

i’m starting to think 360° panoramas might just be the bridge between 2d and 3d worlds

edit the pano. edit the world.

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

i built an app that converts any space into a digital clone in minutes

as the founder of Teleport - the only iphone app that can capture high-quality 360° panoramas - i already had the perfect input when @theworldlabs released their 3d reconstruction api

📍 first test - a co-working space in chiang mai 🇹🇭

the flow:
1. capture 16 ultra-wide photos
2. stitch into a 360° equirectangular image
3. reconstruct a fully navigable 3d environment via @theworldlabs api

there’s something profound about exploring these 3d worlds. it brings you back in a way photos never could.

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@maxym3D @NanoBanana it definitely can. that being said, those inaccuracies were usually the exception rather than the rule - though it can vary significantly depending on the prompts you use

[Martin Maly @mountain_mal]

@th2049 @NanoBanana very cool! I agree that the loading time isn't ideal, but it's still significantly faster and cheaper than physically staging a home. right now I'm using gemini 2.5 flash image which takes ~15 seconds to generate the edited version