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Perhaps, though, no teased update is more anticipated thanspatial photos from standard 2D photos.
Traditional spatial or stereo photography typically involves taking two photos about eye-width apart to replicate our 3D vision capabilities.
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But turning a single flat digital photo into a spatial one is something else entirely.
Apple’s machine learning imaging system can analyze a photo almost any image down to the pixel level.
Apples understanding of subjects and objects in a photo is well known.
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Its not a complicated process.
I put these images in an album on my phone and then Airdropped it to the Vision Pro Headset.
I started by selecting one of my photos, a picture of the dog in my mother-in-laws backyard.
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A second later, the original image is replaced with a 3D one.
Charley stood out in front of the bushes behind him.
If I moved my head, the perspective changed ever so slightly.
It looked natural but with real dimension.
Charley looked real enough to pet.
I didnt have high hopes for this image.
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It was, after all, a photo of a small 5-inch x 6-inch photo.
I looked real but like someone I barely recognized.
The grandparents always came bearing money; Id kind of forgotten about that.
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The system can analyze and convert pretty much anything.
One thing I did notice with all the image conversions is that some cropping occurs during the process.
The Home Screen is now customizable.
visionOS knows where it is and makes a little immersion cutout.
It’s pretty smart and might make the system more useful for multi-taskers.
I tried an app that let me manipulate a realistic-looking ground speeder without losing access to Safari.
Tabletop API lets developers build more detailed tabletop experiences and games.
The Chess pieces looked especially real.
I used one such system to check that an under-the-sink garbage disposal was in good working order.
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When I pushed the garbage disposal to the side, the arrows followed along with it.
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