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Every angle. One tap. Perfectly in sync.

Beacon turns the iPhones you already own into a studio-grade volumetric capture rig. Set them around the scene, tap record once, and every device captures RGB+Depth in lockstep.

Works standalone. Record a full volumetric take with nothing but iPhones — no cloud account, no rest of the stack required.

How it works

A capture rig that fits in your pocket

No cloud queue, no calibration charts, no timecode hardware — the mesh handles it.

WiFi-mesh time sync

Every iPhone in the rig locks to a shared clock over local WiFi — sub-frame synchronization without cables or external hardware.

RGB + Depth fusion

LiDAR depth and RGB captured together on every device. Fused capture resolves thin geometry and reflective surfaces photo-only rigs miss.

Auto-calibration

Devices find their own positions in the scene. No checkerboards, no manual alignment pass — set them down and shoot.

Genlock for pro rigs

Bringing broadcast cameras? Beacon speaks Genlock so pro glass and iPhones roll on the same clock.

100% on-device

Capture processing never leaves the phones. Zero-latency preview, and nothing of your scene touches a server.

Straight into the pipeline

Captures land in the same tape format the VoxaVerse engine reconstructs from — no conversion step in between.

Real build, real screens

Not a mockup. The actual app.

Straight off the devices — the current Beacon alpha running a live two-iPhone rig. In active development and on its way to the App Store.

Beacon home screen on iPhone 17 Pro with Create Rig, Join Rig and Captures actions
One phone directs

Create a rig or join one as a camera node — every capture starts with a single tap.

Join screen on iPhone 13 Pro showing a nearby iPhone 17 Pro rig ready to join
Nodes find each other

Nearby rigs surface instantly over the local mesh — here an iPhone 13 Pro joining an iPhone 17 Pro’s rig.

Rig settings sheet with resolution, frame rate, bitrate and exposure parity controls
Exposure parity across the rig

4K·60 HEVC with matched ISO and shutter pushed to every node at once — one settings sheet for the whole rig.

Director viewfinder with two nodes connected, running timecode and a record button
The director sees everything

Connected nodes, shared timecode, one record button for the entire rig.

Node viewfinder with manual camera controls and synchronized timecode
Every node is a real camera

Manual ISO, shutter and white balance, P3 color and depth recording — all on the same synchronized clock.

Captures list showing numbered rolls with dates and sidecar data
Takes land as rolls

Every capture is a numbered roll with sidecar metadata — organized like a film set, not a camera roll.

Screens shown are from the in-development alpha — UI and features may change before release.

Why it matters

Privacy isn't a feature. It's the architecture.

The volumetric category runs on cloud upload. Beacon doesn't.

On-deviceAll capture processing happens on the phones — nothing is uploaded to be reconstructed
N devicesOne rig from however many iPhones are in the room — scale by adding phones
0 chartsAuto-calibration replaces manual chart alignment entirely
1 tapThe whole mesh starts recording together, in sync

Be holding it on day one.

Beacon is in active development alongside Nexus. The viewer their output streams through is already live on this site.