LucidPix Converts Any Photograph to 3D, No Twin Lenses Required
3D pictures actually come out of any newsfeed — however sharing one requires a tool with twin lenses or Twin Pixel expertise. Not for for much longer, nevertheless. LucidPix, teased throughout CES 2020, is a synthetic intelligence app that takes pictures that you simply’ve already snapped and converts them into 3D pictures.
LucidPix works through the use of contextual A.I. to establish the objects within the scene, after which producing a depth map. The app, Lucid says, was educated utilizing tons of of thousands and thousands of pictures over the previous a number of years.
Within the app, customers enter the 3D conversion mode and choose a photograph. The deep studying program then generates a depth map, changing the 2D picture into 3D. The app additionally consists of built-in sharing choices. Fb’s 3D help permits the shared 3D picture to reply to the angle of the smartphone or, on a desktop laptop, the place of the mouse. The app additionally consists of an choice to share to Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok as a video or GIF.
“The way in which customers specific themselves digitally and visually has advanced an increasing number of to what we naturally see with our personal eyes with depth. Thus, over the previous few years, the visible medium has grow to be extra multidimensional, resulting in extra portrait pictures, 3D content material, and AR and VR being created,” Han Jin, Founder and CEO at Lucid, mentioned.
LucidPix additionally consists of 3D frames and stickers that transfer with the picture.
Whereas different apps have tried to deliver 3D pictures to funds telephones by prompting the consumer to maneuver the cellphone round to seize the additional knowledge, LucidPix works with 2D pictures that exist already on the sensible system — the expertise doesn’t have to be utilized because the picture is being taken.
Whereas the app is now being demoed at CES, LucidPix is at present in beta with greater than 250,000 beta testers. The corporate expects to totally launch the app within the second quarter of this 12 months, for each iPhone and Android.
Lucid is a startup targeted on A.I. imaginative and prescient and generally works with digicam producers to create 3D imaging options. Finally 12 months’s CES, Lucid was a part of a 3D single digicam system. In 2018, Lucid introduced a partnership with RED to develop an 8K 3D prosumer digicam.
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