Facebook 3D photos: How to create and view perspective-shifting pics

(Pocket-lint) - Facebook offers a 3D photo diagnostic that's designed to adhd a furniture of extent to photos successful your quality feed.

It tin seizure the region betwixt the taxable successful the foreground and the inheritance of a photograph to "bring scenes to beingness with extent and movement", Facebook said. The institution described it arsenic a "new mode to stock your memories and moments successful clip with a fun, lifelike magnitude successful some quality provender and VR".

Here's however Facebook 3D photos work, including however to presumption and make them.

What are Facebook 3D photos?

First rolled retired successful May 2018, 3D photos are fundamentally immersive photos that look successful your quality feed. The diagnostic draws from the extent representation successful an representation captured by a dual-camera phone, and past it adds immoderate customized bundle enhancements. The extremity effect should beryllium a perspective-shifting, pseudo-3D image.

How to presumption Facebook 3D photos?

In October 2018, everyone connected Facebook got the quality to presumption 3D photos via the Facebook mobile app. You tin besides presumption them with the Oculus Go VR headset’s web browser oregon with Firefox connected the Oculus Rift. But you bash not request a VR headset; you tin conscionable usage the Facebook mobile app connected your phone. 

While utilizing your phone, if you spot a 3D photograph successful your quality feed, scroll oregon tilt your instrumentality to somewhat alteration the perspective. 

How to make and stock Facebook 3D photos

The easiest mode to make 3D photos is with the Facebook app for iOS. You tin stock them to your quality feed, a group, oregon a page.

Requirements

You’ll request an iPhone with dual cameras:

• iPhone SE
• iPhone 6S
• iPhone 7, 7+
• iPhone 8, 8+
• iPhone X, XR, XS, XS Max
• iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max

Create and stock a 3D photo

It's casual to get started. Just make a caller Facebook post...

1. Open the latest mentation of the Facebook mobile app.
2. Tap What's connected your mind? astatine the apical of your quality feed.
3. Tap Write something... successful a radical oregon Create a station connected a Page.
4. Tap Photo/Video.
5. Select your photograph and pat Done.
6. Tap Make 3D successful the apical near of your photo.
7. Tap Share oregon Post.

Note: To region the 3D effect, pat Remove 3D successful the apical near of your photo

Tips and tricks

Here are a fewer things to see erstwhile creating and sharing a 3D photo:

• You'll get the champion results if your main taxable is 3 oregon 4 feet away.
• Capture scenes with aggregate layers of extent (like your household successful a tract of flowers).
• Capture subjects with contrasting colours (avoid a bluish motortruck successful beforehand of a bluish wall).
• Capture subjects that person immoderate texture to them, coagulated edges, and aren’t excessively shiny.
• Avoid transparent objects similar wide integrative oregon glass, arsenic the extent sensors tin miss those.

Anything other you should know?

Only 1 3D photograph tin beryllium shared astatine a time. (In different words, your station can't incorporate aggregate 3D photos.) They besides can't beryllium added to an album.

When volition Facebook 3D photos beryllium available?

Everyone connected Facebook tin already presumption 3D photos successful their quality feeds with the Facebook mobile app oregon with Oculus VR headsets.

But lone iPhone users tin make and stock 3D photos connected Facebook. There's nary connection yet erstwhile Android users volition get the ability.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 11 October 2018.