{"id":23638,"date":"2026-03-06T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23638"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:38:13","slug":"from-carbohydrates-to-polygons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/from-carbohydrates-to-polygons\/","title":{"rendered":"From carbohydrates to polygons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the misbegotten <em>&#8220;Oh, everyone will love this\u2014but rarely will anyone actually use it&#8221;<\/em> AR demos of 2017 (right alongside &#8220;See whether this toaster fits on my counter!&#8221;), imagining restaurants plopping a 3D model onto your plate was always a banger. Leaving aside whether anyone would actually want or value that experience, the cost of realistically modeling dishes was prohibitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new tech at least promises to take the grunt work out of model creation, turning a single photo into an AR-ready 3D asset (give or take a tine or two ;-)):<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AR GenAI by AR Code is transforming the food industry. Creating an AR experience for a dish can now start with a single photo.<\/p>\n<p>As shown in the video, a single dessert photo is converted into an AR-ready 3D model with realistic textures and depth. AR Code SaaS then instantly\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1H5do1UUf\">pic.twitter.com\/s1H5do1UUf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maxime Maisonneuve (@maximemaisonneu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maximemaisonneu\/status\/2015354579005948342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the misbegotten &#8220;Oh, everyone will love this\u2014but rarely will anyone actually use it&#8221; AR demos of 2017 (right alongside &#8220;See whether this toaster fits on my counter!&#8221;), imagining restaurants plopping a 3D model onto your plate was always a banger. Leaving aside whether anyone would actually want or value that experience, the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23640,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions\/23640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}