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[Coreda]

Just saw this on Hacker News. I am ready for the future.

A site called Depthy converts any photos taken using the Lens Blur tool from the Google Camera app into 3D photos that can be moved around with your cursor or watched in a hypnotizing loop. Open source, too. All it needs now is auto GIF/WebM conversion.

 

[Zeppeli]

 

[Coreda]

dinogif

Stereo gifs have been around a while, but making stereo photography from a phone camera like this, and then converting it to a smooth, interactive form really could make it accessible to a much wider audience.

Would make a nice new feature for Google's existing app.

 

[Aurongel]

There was an app recently that got a lot of press for generating 3D images using a stitching algorithm. I can't remember the name of it but some of you might find it cool.

 

[mrpoopy]

Make this an auto awesome ASAP!

 

[akira28]

I wonder if they can make music videos out of that.

 

[Coreda]

Make this an auto awesome ASAP!

The next step: 3D selfies.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Next-gen naked selfies.

 

[Angelus Errare]

So it's like Lytro and their cameras?

 

[_Ryo_]

Awesome but what I'm really waiting for is interactive 3D TV where the viewing perspective is different depending on where you sit so every time you watch a movie or show you find something new.

 

[Coreda]

So it's like Lytro and their cameras but not as high quality?

Looks higher quality than the previous gen Lytro photos I've seen. New one looks pretty nice, but pricey.

 

[Makai]

Awesome but what I'm really waiting for is interactive 3D TV where the viewing perspective is different depending on where you sit so every time you watch a movie or show you find something new.

Look, a boom mic!

 

[Crayons]

This has great possibilities for porn.

 

[Cipherr]

Those gives me the creeps for some reason.

 

[Orayn]

Looks higher quality than the previous gen Lytro photos I've seen. New one looks pretty nice, but pricey.

I dunno, this looks worse than Lytro to me. If you play with the perspective on the picture of lavender on their site, you see some parts that look like cardboard cutouts because the post-processing fell short.

 

[ScepticMatt]

It's old news, it's used in "wiggle cards"
This is called "motion parallax", and is an important depth cue.
It is also one reason why positional tracking is a big plus for OculusVR.

 

[R3TRO]

This has great possibilities for porn.

The future will be great.

 

[N.Domixis]

maybe it wont work for some.

 

[Coreda]

I dunno, this looks worse than Lytro to me. If you play with the perspective on the picture of lavender on their site, you see some parts that look like cardboard cutouts because the post-processing fell short.

Previous gen Lytro could be pretty terrible IQ-wise. Compare to this Lytro photo, and several similar in the gallery. Even with the processing of Depthy showing itself on close inspection the overall effect is pulled off well I think.

It's old news, it's used in "wiggle cards"
This is called "motion parallax", and is an important depth cue.
It is also one reason why positional tracking is a big plus for OculusVR.

Except this uses the depth of field information from a non-3D phone camera to create the effect. You can see the depth map created by scrolling down, which it uses to process into the foreground and background elements.

 

[The Hermit]

maybe it wont work for some.

annnd now I am blind

 

[kodecraft]

Cool.

 

[akira28]

annnd now I am blind

I saw what looked like a wiggling, half deflated balloon, and then suddenly some deformed sea creature with 3 dorsal fins leaped out of the screen and gave me a migraine.

 

[Wolfe]

maybe it wont work for some.

The effort wasn't worth the reward lol, still cool in a way nonetheless.

 

[injurai]

maybe it wont work for some.

Spoiler

it's a swimming shark

took no effort for it to work for me, guess I've always been blessed to have magic eyes work for me. There is a tetris magic eye I used to like.

 

[Trojan X]

Spoiler

it's a swimming shark

took no effort for it to work for me, guess I've always been blessed to have magic eyes work for me. There is a tetris magic eye I used to like.

You mean that faint to see small silhouette on the top half of the animation?

 

[stufte]

Spoiler

it's a swimming shark

took no effort for it to work for me, guess I've always been blessed to have magic eyes work for me. There is a tetris magic eye I used to like.

something something 90's kid.

 

[Mordeccai]

maybe it wont work for some.

Holy fuck I was sitting here just like "oh yeah, the dots move slow, and then I look here and they move faster. Neat I guess" and then all of a fucking sudden A WILD SHARK APPEARS.

Now my eyes hurt and I cant focus on letters.

 

[WhiskeyDiver]

maybe it wont work for some.

 

[injurai]

You mean that faint to see small silhouette on the top half of the animation?

after a second of looking at it I see a fully animating shark taking up nearly to full magic eye

something something 90's kid.

haha could be

 

[Grimm Fandango]

maybe it wont work for some.

All these years later and I still can't fucking do it.

 

[Coreda]

Adds GIF conversion now: