Now, Your iPhone Can Take 3D Photos!
Wait, what? iPhones can take 3D photographs? YES! Thanks to Poppy. It is the device that lets you capture and share your world through your iPhone as you actually experience it - in 3D!
By Sadho Ram — 30 Jun 2013, 01:15 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
This is Poppy, the device using which your iPhone can take 3D photographs
Created by two American inventors, this gadget transforms iPhone into a camera capable of capturing and displaying 3D photographs and videos!
Image via dailymail.co.ukHow does it work?
Poppy works with iPhone 4, 4S, iPhone 5 and the fifth generation iPod Touch. You put your phone in and Poppy’s mirrors capture two stereographic images using your iPhone’s single camera.
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When you look in the viewfinder, Poppy’s lenses combine the two video streams into a single, crisp, 3D video. It’s beautiful, and really hard to describe or show in two dimensions.
dailymail.co.ukIt doesn't need batteries and there are no electronics. It's just optics and your iPhone's camera and screen, so we can keep the price low without sacrificing quality.
Story behind Poppy that turns your iPhone and other smartphones into a 3D camera
Poppy, a $39-device that converts an iPhone into a 3D video camera, is the latest device to go up on Kickstarter. The gadget lets users capture, view and share 3D video clips and photos in an all-in-one low-cost device.
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You can slot in an Apple iPhone 5, 4S, or 4, or a 5th-gen iPod touch, and anything you view will be in 3D.
hothardware.comPoppy allows you to use conventional capture and recording applications and the finished products can be viewed either through the device itself, on a 3D monitor through YouTube or on a 3D TV.
The technology behind Poppy is surprisingly straightforward, and is purely optical, requiring no batteries or connections.
It splits the incoming light using a mirror system, so that two slightly offset images are recorded by the iPhone's camera.
dailymail.co.ukOn the other end, when you look at the photo through the eyepiece, like a Viewmaster the two angles are recombined into a single, 3D image. Since this sort of stereoscopic image is fairly common, you could also use the Poppy to view extant 3D content, like 3D videos on YouTube