sXRetch — Image to USDZ/GLB

Place any image in your space as an XR sketch — instantly, in your browser.

Drawings · Photos · Ideas → Space

Works instantly with Xcode, Android Studio, and XR tools for quick prototypes or simple moments of wonder

Built in a weekend for Celeste, who wanted to step inside her drawings

A by Francesco Perchiazzi

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How it works
SPATIAL UI · ONE IMAGE

Upload 1 image and get a USDZ/GLB “backwall” plane in XR for UI mockups, photos, or scanned drawings.

VR ROOM · UP TO 5 IMAGES

Upload 5 images and get an immersive XR scenography with five textured surfaces.

Generate USDZ + GLB, preview on iPhone/Android, and prototype in Xcode/Android Studio — or drag USDZ into Keynote. Export from Figma and test.

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01 — UPLOAD YOUR PICTURES
CREATIVE MODE

One image: keeps original aspect ratio (no crop).

Five images: each texture is auto-cropped to a square for convenience.

01 Backdrop XR Panel
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02Floor
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03Left Wall
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04Right Wall
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05Ceiling
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02 — Optional settings Size, orientation, and export options. Open Close
Real-world plane size in AR
Blank = keeps image proportions
Controls which direction is considered “up”. Y suits ARKit; Z faces the plane toward you — best for images on a wall.
Double-sided Make the plane visible from both sides
Alpha transparency Respect PNG alpha channel
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Preview
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Download USDZ · for iPhone, Mac Download GLB · for Android
How to use: on iPhone/iPad open the file in Safari — it launches directly in AR. On Mac use Quick Look or Reality Composer. On Android use Sceneviewer via GLB (alternative format).
The story behind sXRetch

One Saturday afternoon, my daughter Celeste — five years old — watched Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) step inside a drawing and asked: “Papà, can we do that with the computer?”

By the end of that afternoon, we could. Celeste’s drawing was floating in our living room on an iPhone.

What started as a family experiment became something that didn’t quite exist yet: a tool that converts any image into an XR-ready 3D file in seconds, entirely in your browser, with no upload and no installation. Useful for a five-year-old’s drawings. Equally useful for an XR student who wants to drag a sketch directly into Xcode, Reality Composer, or Keynote.

Made on a personal Saturday · independent project · not affiliated with Apple or other worldwide initiatives · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

For families

Photograph the drawing. Generate the file. Open it on your phone.
It will be there, in your room, at real scale. No account. No cloud. No subscription.

A forest imagined by Celeste, where giraffes and zebras move quietly between the trees. A small world filled with animals of every kind, like a park that could never exist, but somehow does. A popcorn truck, balloons, and animals in the middle of the city — as if imagination decided to visit for a day. Toucans and parrots, bringing color into places that usually don’t have it. A way to bring forests, animals, and impossible scenes into everyday places.

Download Celeste’s model.

Download USDZfor iPhone, Mac Download GLBfor Android
For designers · For researchers · For developers
Spatial UI on your desk: prototype scale and presence for design and development.

Figma → export → preview in Reality Composer Pro or Keynote.
For presentations, export GLB and drag it into Microsoft PowerPoint.

Apple’s visionOS Design Resources for Figma (from Figma Community). Figma preview screenshot showing a visionOS UI example. Drag and drop USDZ into Keynote to make presentations and pitches feel more real. https://www.apple.com/keynote/ Drag and drop into Reality Composer Pro, then bring it into Xcode. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ Microsoft PowerPoint screenshot showing a GLB 3D model inserted into a slide.

Download the demo model.

Download USDZfor iPhone, Mac Download GLBfor Android

Keynote example photo by Ali Colak on Unsplash.