Facebook 3D Photos feature now available on single-lens camera phones too

California: Wanted to jazz up your photos using Facebook's 3D Photos feature but were constrained by a single-lens phone? Well now you millions of mere mortals who haven’t upgraded to a dual camera phone can too. The Facebook 3D Photos feature now supports shots taken from single-lens camera phones.

Facebook’s official blog said the company had enhanced their technology to be able to create 3D structure out of images taken using a single, rear-facing camera on a phone. Facebook has brought this feature to both Android and iOS phones, from any mid-range Android device to Apple iPhone 7 or higher.

“This advance makes 3D photo technology easily accessible for the first time to the many millions of people who use single-lens camera phones or tablets,” reads the announcement on the Facebook blog. “It also allows everyone to experience decades-old family photos and other treasured images in a new way, by converting them to 3D.”

The social networking company uses machine learning to develop flat, single-lens images into layered, 3D images. The 3D feature first introduced in October 2018 relied on using dual cameras to develop the depth of a 3D image, until this upgrade in its technology.