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I am wondering when Apple will start putting a second camera onto iPhones with proper pupil distance, so people can start taking 3D photos and videos in landscape format. That would be a real "whole family" use case...

Some years ago I made 3D photos of a wedding with a physical dual camera setup. That was quite a pain to get exposure etc. synchronized and postprocessed. Still the pictures look amazing on a quest. Nowadays this could all be super easy.

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With some AI/NERF magic, you could adjust IPD and allow limited head motion for videos and photos, even when they're shot with a sub-optimal stereo setup or even on a single camera.

sure, there are already models that allow you to hallucinate a full 3D scene from a single image. Still, it would be pretty cheap to add that camera I assume and it would have the potential to pretty quickly fix the 3D content issue that is prevalent currently without introducing hallucination artifacts.

If you're going that far, you can do it now with mono-scopic shots.

I had 3D photos taken of my wedding too in 2009. The wedding was in the snow, so the 3D worked out nicely.

There were several 3D Android phones that I remember in the early days with dual-lens cameras and autostereographic screens, but sadly they all bombed.

At some point the technology will return, I'm certain of that.

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