At their F8 conference previous month, Facebook introduced a range of anticipated visual tools and features, which were mostly focused on the platform’s advancing AR capacity
But there was one other note included in their ‘coming soon’ list which didn’t get a heap of attention at the time:
- 3D Posts in Camera: Take a 3D post from News Feed and experience it in your world with Facebook Camera on your mobile device
Of course, 3D posts didn’t get a lot of attention because Facebook didn’t have a lot to show about them right then. But this week, TechCrunchhas shown a synopsis of not only what the upcoming 3D posts in News Feed will be like, nonetheless how they’ll be created by Facebook’s systems.
As you can realize, the innovative 3D posts will offer a level of depth to posted pictures, and will react when you scroll past or angle your phone. And they look extraordinarily impressive, addition of aspect to your images – but it’s how Facebook will construct these new images that’s most attention-grabbing.
Over a composite procedure of image layering and data-mapping (you can read all about it here), Facebook’s procedure practices the double camera set-up of most up-to-date smartphones to form these 3D images, minus any extra effort on the part of the originator.
As demonstrated by TechCrunch:
“The phone’s two cameras take a pair of images, and immediately the device does its own work to calculate a “depth map” from them, an image encoding the calculated distance of everything in the frame.”
That’s the easy explanation – you can see more of the process in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=132&v=OlgVoplUJ8g
The final product is a modest way to produce stunning, dazzling visual effects, without having to be a tech professional.
And that, really, is important. Again, from TechCrunch’s post:
“Interestingly, the origin of 3D photos wasn’t an idea for how to enhance snapshots, but rather how to democratize the creation of VR content.”
Facebook is capitalizing big in virtual reality, and in VR being the forthcoming of public communication. But it’s a long way off yet – and to get public to that next phase, to move them from their regular social feeds to full VR settings, Facebook has to have stepping stones, tech trails which mention at what the next evolution comprises, and why consumers might want to practice them.
This is partially why Facebook’s so intensely keen to drive the use of Facebook Stories– over the prolonged practice of the Facebook Camera, they can show new AR features and properties, guiding operators into their extended digital aids, which will ultimately take them to full VR interface. 3D snaps are additional stage on this track – although it may appear to be trivial, the innovative image offering will lure people in, making them more involved in how they upsurge their own images in the similar way.
As such, you can envision to see a lot more of these minor visual tools and developments, little advancements that show a new way of seeing at – and interacting with – Facebook content. And as users practice, they’ll preferably become more involved in parallel possibilities, and augmenting their Facebook content experiences.
VR is still a way off, it is going to take a long time before we’re interacting in fully immersive situations, catching up with social friends from the comfort of our own headsets.
But these are the tiny steps that will lead us to the ultimate thing. Taking a note as we witness such systems evolve and advance.
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Ramiz Al Jalbani
Ramiz is a content writer and a supply chain professional focused on IT and Trading. He has a wide experience of using the new and latest technology to trade businesses. A true Middle Eastern and South Asian Market insider, Ramiz shares his thoughts and opinions in the form of weekly essays that you can subscribe to via subscribing to blog of Ava IT Solutions or email. He has written numerous essays, articles and blogs which have been featured and quoted in different journals around the globe. The topics range from Digital Marketing, Social Media Trends, Technology Trends and Integration of Business Processes to IT.
