Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

Re:Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes by wubbert on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:41PM (#30808020)

IIRC Microsoft had something like this years ago, but the results weren't nearly as smooth or natural looking. I can't remember what it was called, though.

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Re:Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes by xsmasher on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:05PM (#30833577)

I remember a very old video where they rendered 3d scenes for frames 1 and 5 (examples) but interpolated the frames in between, or something like that, instead of re-rendering the whole scene. Maybe they were only redrawing some triangles if the angle changed too much.

If it's that tech, I'm pretty sure it got dropped when 3D acceleration made it feasible to just re-render the whole scene every frame. Dedicated hardware won out over software tricks.

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Re:Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes by schemescape on Friday March 25, 2022 @09:47PM (#30808604)

Photosynth?

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