Facebook’s 3D Photos feature is now available to single-lens camera phones or Tablets.
Its research team said on its official blog post that this feature, launched in 2018 as a new, immersive format for sharing pictures with friends & family, was uptil now, only available for the dual-lens “portrait mode” capabilities available only in new, higher-end smartphones. So it was not available on typical mobile devices, which have only a single, rear-facing camera.
To circumvent this issue, said the team, & bring this new visual format to more people, it had used state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) techniques to produce 3D photos from virtually any standard 2D picture. This system infers the 3D structure of any image, whether it is a new shot just taken on an Android or iOS device with a standard single camera, or a decades-old image recently uploaded to a phone or laptop.
This advance also allows everyone to experience decades-old family photos & other treasured images in a new way, by converting them to 3D. People with state-of-the-art dual-camera devices can benefit, too, since they can now use their single, front-facing camera to take 3D selfies.
Anyone with an iPhone 7 or higher, or a recent midrange or better Android device, can now try these options in the Facebook app.
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