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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by coderatlarge on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:40AM (#45593352)
i’m afraid i’ll look back and regret that i didn’t capture 3d memories of parents and grandparents when it was technically feasible because of a few dollars…
Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by JKCalhoun on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:40AM (#45594271)
Well, there are stereo cameras… The digital ones came and went with 3D TVs though so you have to go to eBay. I am enjoying the stereo cameras I have accumulated though.
Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by PaulHoule on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:29PM (#45596622)
This is nice if pricey

https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-ego

It eats batteries but you can get a charger and more batteries the way you would have a few mirrorless generations ago.

My trouble is not really having a system to show these to people, red/green anglyohs sometimes work fret but aren’t consistent, there doesn’t seem to be an ‘instagram’ for sharing stereo photos, it ought to be easy to make a WebXR application to show stereograms but I haven’t seen a fully realized one and found texture memory limits are a bitch in the MQ3 so my first attempt to make one got stuck.

Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by JKCalhoun on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:35PM (#45598616)
I've taken to (tediously) printing stereogram cards for the better 3D photos.

I wrote this to take the .MPO files (a common file format on the earlier commercial digital stereo cameras) and convert them to print-ready stereograms: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer

Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by bzzzt on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:50AM (#45604705)
Canon's got two 3d fish-eye lenses for their RF and RF-s mount cameras. Their software can even produce Apple spatial images. https://global.canon/en/news/2025/20250610.html