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I am confused. Anyone understand this new 3-D Facebook app?

Started Apr 20, 2019 | Discussions thread
3D Gunner Senior Member • Posts: 1,031
Re: I am confused. Anyone understand this new 3-D Facebook app?

Turbguy1 wrote:

Here's an image of a modern smartphone with dual rear cameras:

Note the separation is only about 1/2".

One camera is 13 MP color, the other 2 MP B&W. This arrangement is sufficient to generate a depth map file, but is FAR from being capable true stereo photography.

BTW, StereoPhotoMaker WILL generate a depth map, and enable uploading the "3D" files to Facebook.

An advanced AI is trained at DeepMind to be capable to generate the 3D environment from any single picture, so no special camera (with multiple lenses), no multiple shots and no depth map is needed.

This AI that has the ability to create full-fledged 3D scenes merely after observing them in 2D images. Their AI was trained to guess how things look like from different angles that it has not yet seen.

A very impressive fact it is to note that the AI does not use any human-labeled input!

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