3D photos on iOS or Android are now a thing, thanks to this new, free app
This is a GIF from a 3D photo taken with the LucidPix app. The movement shows how the perspective changes when you move your phone.
LucidPix
After months of beta testing, the 3D photo app LucidPix is now available to iOS and Android users. Whether you have a newer phone like that iPhone 11 or Samsung Galaxy Z Flip or an older one like Motorola Moto G6 or iPhone 6Syou can take 3D photos with the app. The best thing is that you don’t need any special accessories or multiple rear cameras. Instead, LucidPix uses artificial intelligence to render 3D photos that move as you tilt and pan your phone.
Usually when the term 3D is mentioned, faulty products like 3D TV and 3D phones come to my mind. Part of the problem is that 3D is often hyped up as the start of a new product category instead of being viewed as a new expression tool. Lucid, the company behind the app, intelligently takes on the role of 3D as a creative tool.
Earlier this year, Lucid at CES showed that its imaging magic doesn’t require any special hardware like 2019 $ 1,300 unfortunate Red Hydrogen One phone. LucidPix captures 3D photos using software that mimics how the human brain processes depth. The software started in the company LucidCam VR180 camera and was used by Red in the Hydrogen phone and in unpublished red 8K 3D lithium cinema camera. During its beta period, LucidPix had a thorough review of its features and user interface by over a million people who tried the app.
Here is another 3D photo taken with the LucidPix app.
LucidPix
LucidPix can also convert your existing 2D photos to 3D. The finished images can be shared with the app community or on other platforms such as Facebook, which offer integrated support for the display of 3D images. By adding this social aspect to the app, you can share and view 3D images just like 2D images on Instagram or Snapchat. In fact, there are several large groups on Facebook that deal with 3D photos. At the moment, LucidPix seems to be one of the easier ways to create and customize your own 3D snapshots.
“The way consumers express themselves digitally and visually has increasingly become what we naturally see with depth,” said Han Jin, founder and CEO of Lucid, about the CES display in January . “The visual medium has become multidimensional in recent years, which has resulted in more portrait photos, 3D content, AR and VR being created.”
Jin suggests that the technology that runs the LucidPix app will one day impact future photo formats from AR and VR to 3D to holograms, whether viewed on a phone or with a special headset become.
LucidPix is available free of charge from the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store. A pro version includes unlimited watermarked use of the app for $ 6 a month or $ 40 a year on iOS and for $ 4 a month or $ 30 a year on Android.
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Originally published January 24.
Update, June 17: Updated to indicate that LucidPix is no longer in beta and adds pricing information.
