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Source: How Facebook’s new 3D photos work | TechCrunch
From my quick reading of the article, this is a new application for Facebook but I am not seeing that this is anything new. They use a collection of photos to determine a depth map, and then use the depth map to create a wiggle 3D image. The interpolate – excuse me – use a “convolutional neural network” – to interpolate missing pieces to create a smoother 3D effect.
Facebook users can now interact with and use 3D content across the Facebook News Feed and its virtual reality (VR) platform called Facebook Spaces
Source: Facebook fuses VR, News Feed with 3D posts – Business Insider
Facebook’s concept of 3D is objects and characters modeled as 3D graphics. You can drag the objects around to give a sense of looking at them in 3D – but these are not stereoscopic 3D features.
Adobe announced a price increase for some Adobe Creative Cloud plans in the United States, Canada and Mexico. T
Source: Adobe to increase the price of some Adobe Creative Cloud plans in North America | Photo Rumors
Lightroom 5.7 was getting on in years and does not support two newer cameras I have. I’ve switched to Adobe alternatives. I will keep LR 5.7 (since that is one I did not have to pay by the month to use) to access my photo library, but otherwise, I have moved on past Adobe. Adobe’s focus is the professional market, not amateur.
As part of another movie promotion:
Screen Gems is partnering with Snapchat again on a 3D lens for its upcoming fifthquel Underworld: Blood Wars.
Source: ‘Underworld: Blood Wars’ Tie-In: Screen Gems & Snapchat Reteam | Deadline
From the various news reports, it sounds like its a 360 degree view. As you rotate your phone about, you see the full 360 degree panorama (or may be sphere). It does not sound like it is 3D at all.
It’s a $50 setup that says it dynamically converts any image or video screen into 3D, doing a 2D to 3D conversion. It works in conjunction with an iOS app. Looks like it uses the iPhone camera to collect images, the app to do a 2D to 3D conversion into side-by-side viewing, and then uses the “3D viewer” to enable parallel view on the Phone screen’s side by side image. I think.
Parallel viewing glasses is not new. But using an iPhone camera to record 2D and then converting in real time to 3D is a neat trick. Provided you want to watch it on your iPhone. Photo, below, form the Elsewhere web site:
This post is a bit more info on our previous post which did not have any details.
Source: ELSEWHERE
