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Apple Is Working With LG On Next-Gen 3D Camera For 2017 iPhone, Says Report (9to5mac.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: A brief report in The Korea Economic Daily claims that Apple is working with LG on a new dual camera module "which enables 3D photographing." LG already supplies the dual-camera module used in the iPhone 7 Plus. The LG Innotek system is said to be destined for one or more of next year's iPhone models, but the report is unclear what 3D applications Apple might have in mind. Apple has patents for 3D object and gesture recognition going back many years. However, it is likely nothing more than the next generation of Portrait Mode, which uses parallax effect to create a 3D model of a scene in order to identify foreground and background in what is captured by the twin cameras. Apple may be aiming to bring Portrait Mode to all iPhone models next year, which would require a more compact dual-camera module.
This is not useful. You can all thank me for this important information.
What good is 3D pictures if the screen resolution makes it unusable for VR? Why don't they focus on making a ultra high resolution 120fps display instead?
Apple #1!!!!
Great, now let it loose at villagers in stupid india.
Even better than testing on rats
Apple seems to be working on all sorts of things. Indeed, since Jobs died their R&D expenditure has grown massively. The trouble is that all we have really gotten from all this extra working is a larger screen sizes, and now three years of essentially the same phone with more processing power/better color gamut. Those things are fine, but they are not the step change innovations that Apple was producing previously.
I had hope for a while that Ives could keep delivering some great ideas, but I guess Jobs just carried much more of the vision than anyone could have imagined.
Could be better. Castro is dead... Which means the US will be looking to install another one of its puppet governments
I love stereo photography.
A lot of people don't realize, stereo photography used to be huge. In the 1800s professional photographers went all over the world with big stereo cameras on tripods, taking photos of famous people and places. These were made into prints for Holmes stereo viewers, and door-to-door salesmen went around peddling bundles of stereo cards. You could take a virtual tour of Rome in your own home, you could see the Grand Canyon, etc. Then Kodak and Ford came along and changed everything, and pretty soon people were driving to the Grand Canyon in their Model T and taking crummy 2D snapshots of their family with a Brownie camera, and all the stereo vendors went out of business. (Except you could still buy View-Master discs at the visitor's center!)
Stereo cameras made a brief comeback in the 1950s, with the Stereo Realist and similar cameras. But to show off your Grand Canyon photos you had to gather your friends in a dark room and give them special glasses and subject them to a slide show. Haha! What fun. :P
I got a Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W3 camera. It's amazing. It's wonderful. I can keep it in my pocket and take stereo photos anywhere. But. . . How to show off the photos? They look *great* on my big screen 3D HDTV, with the special glasses. So what am I going to do, corral all my friends into the living room and put glasses on them and subject them to a slide show? Really? I don't think so.
It's frustrating.
That means an Apple 3D printer is coming in 2017!
Can you imagine the cost of a bottle of Apple-branded resin?
yet another reason to NEVER buy an apple product. shitty lg parts in a shitty apple phone.
anyone remember goldstar? the shitty electronics manufacturer in the 80s and 90s? lg doesn't stand for life's good..... it's lucky goldstar.
Meh, my Goldstar microwave oven, c. 1986 still works fine, heats my coffee great - works so good, it makes my balls tingle.
My camera phone is amazing Samsung Galaxy Edge Juliano Fernandes
That's actually from the poor shielding.