Tinkering on a little internet radio station thing! Kinda blew it up and started from scratch, but the project is way more maintainable now.

Of course I rabbithole for hours on the details that don't really matter right now 😂 ...

I recorded some footage on my phone, tracked it in C4D, and imported the animation into THREE to give the camera a bit of natural movement.

Okay done for the night I think! Got a rough shader set up to blend between multiple sets of baked textures, means I can add effects and stuff later on too.

Random dev doodle today… trying to get a lil python script set up that will generate a spatial photo from a 2D image. They work REALLY well in headset so far… So far I’ve got MiDaS generating the depth map, now trying to figure out the best way to write a displacement map in python so I don’t need to do anything in after effects.

First attempt did not work but looks cool 😂

Uhhhh nope

Nope but getting closer! Gotta figure out how to interpolate between the pixels somehow… right now it’s just shifting each pixel n-points left or right:

It is insane how well this works 😂

Well it works! Definitely works on some things better than others. Surpised at how well it works with things like drawings and 2D art.

I just put it up on gh here https://github.com/scooterrr/spatial_video_converter/ if anyone has access to a headset and wants to try it out:

I definitely need a more accurate method of aligning two phones... gonna try 3D print something. The disparity is a bit too high and it takes a sec for your eyes to settle on it ... I don't really have a way to monitor it until I capture, something else to figure out I guess!

It's pretty wild when it works though! The effect is really fun, everything just looks miniaturized.

This is a capture of the disparity on a standard Spatial Video from a single iPhone...

Then next to it, a capture from my janky two phone setup. I applied a bit of manual offset to each eye which made it a little more comfortable to look at, but still not quite right.