Midjourney excels at generating visually compelling images, but there’s still a gap in controllability.
For more structured use cases (like consistent characters, branding, or production-ready assets), it can be difficult to get predictable results without repeated trial and error.
The Discord-based interaction model also adds friction compared to more direct, UI-driven tools.
Finally, pricing can feel restrictive when exploration requires multiple iterations.
Bridging the gap between creative exploration and precise control would significantly expand its use cases.
Raycast
Really surprising direction from Midjourney... a successor to the MRI and a spa in downtown San Francisco??
Check out the details of how the Midjourney Scanner works:
The system involves (source):
8,960 transducers per chip/system
40 systems arranged in a ring
358,000 ultrasonic elements total
A 70 cm diameter ring
Waves traveling through water at about 1,481 m/s
Data capture around 17 GB/s
Around 40 GB of data per body slice
Reconstruction using 21 servers
Claimed 2 PFLOPS compute
Claimed 806 TB raw data
Lift movement at 4 cm/s
Goal of several hundred slices in 60 seconds
Claimed resolution of internal tissue details down to about 0.5 mm
This is genuinely fascinating — a full body scan in 60 seconds with no radiation sounds like something out of sci-fi. I'm curious though, is the scanner something you visit at a Midjourney Spa location, or will it eventually be available for clinics and hospitals to use too?
Such an interesting idea. A 60-second body scan that people can do regularly sounds genuinely useful. How accurate is it, and what can it detect today?
Had to double check to make sure this was the same Midjourney that does AI image gen. Didn't expect this!
Voquill
This is a pretty unexpected direction for Midjourney, but it's interesting to see the brand branching out beyond creative AI.