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3D Camera adds depth to your iPhone photography

by Steven Sande Jun 26th 2009 at 11:00AM

3D photo apps are not new to the iPhone platform, but a new app from Juicy Bits looks promising in terms of making those pictures with depth a lot easier to take and view.

3D Camera 1.1 [US$1.99, click opens iTunes] is now available for iPhone OS 2.2 and 3.0 devices, and it lets you take photos that use one of three methods to create the illusion of 3D: red/cyan anaglyphs that require those funky 3D glasses, stereograms that create 3D images when your eyes look at them a certain way, and wiggle stereograms (or wiggle-grams) that use animated GIF images to provide the "depth". If you need a place to buy the goofy glasses, Juicy Bits lists several sources on their website

To take the photos, you use one of two methods. If you're planning on taking an anaglyph or sterogram, you take one picture, move the iPhone camera slightly to the right, and take another photo. To make a wiggle stereogram, you point directly at the same object from two slightly different vantage points. The app provides instructions on exactly how to take the two photos each time you launch it.

How are the results? Well, I haven't tried a red/cyan anaglyph yet, but if you use "crossviewing" (crossing the eyes slightly so that the two images overlap and form a third 3D image) you should be able to see depth in the test image seen below. If you use 3D Camera or any of the other 3D photo apps for iPhone, be sure to send some of your best pics to our Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tuawrigs/pool/



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MGough

Thought everyone would like to know that 3D Camera 1.2 was finally approved by Apple and released to the App Store: http://bit.ly/3dcamera. We also released a Lite version since this review was posted. Enjoy!

August 16 2009 at 3:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
europanorama

it is unwise to show us an parallel 3dstereo with extended stereobase (suitable for lenticular use). i would show a cross-eye-image converted to the right stereobase.
if only double-view or schillr 3dviewer would already be supported in FF 3.5. these add-ons can quickly convert 3dstereo-formats, with schillr to have more options.
look at my 3dstereo-aeropanorama plus marspanoramas in 3stereo-all freeviewing plus anaglyph. parallel/cross/anaglyph
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www.3dpanimages.tk
all the same

July 13 2009 at 5:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MGough

Thought everyone would appreciate our first test of upcoming functionality in version 1.2: http://www.twitpic.com/8pcyn

The images were re-aligned by dragging them with a finger, then the wigglegram was uploaded as an animation to Twitpic. The 1.2 update will be submitted to Apple soon, and of course, it'll be free to all current owners.

June 28 2009 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bward74

I have written my own review on the iPhoneography website here:

http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2009/7/1/iphone-app-review-3d-camera-by-barry-ward.html

I hope it's ok to post the link.

July 01 2009 at 7:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
carbonadam

I love this program for the iphone. I have no problem merging the images by myself and for those that can not there is the traditional red/blue feature too.

June 27 2009 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nvidia2008

I can do Parallel viewing in http://www.jrsdesign.net/cross_parallel_viewing.html but can't do the cross-eyed.

Bummer.

June 27 2009 at 5:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
richard

It's a sailboat!

June 26 2009 at 3:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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allonblack

It's not a sailboat, it's a scooner dumbass!

June 27 2009 at 3:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bward74

Uploaded my 3D piccy of a toy fire engine to the tuaw Flickr pool. Works a treat!

June 26 2009 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MGough

Thanks for the nice review, Steven. For anyone who is interested, we already have version 1.2 in development, and it includes some frequently requested features:

* Ability to use your finger to re-align images after they’ve been taken
* Ability to control or eliminate the “black bar” between the left and right stereogram images
* Ability to save/send wigglegram animations
* Ability to take advantage of the increased camera resolution on the iPhone 3GS models
* Ability to upload directly to Flickr

Last, our FAQ has a lot of 3D photo tips and links to geeky articles for anyone who wants to dive in: http://www.juicybitssoftware.com/faq/

June 26 2009 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gabriel.m.sharp

Just bought the app. Works really well.
Have demo shots if you want.3

June 26 2009 at 12:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mariagrafs

With Juicy Bits app the photos are looking more brighter. I will take some pictures and will send to Flickr.

June 26 2009 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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