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>If you’re more interested in how this impacts you, just know this: whether you want to convert “decades-old family photos” to 3D, or you want to convert your p
by dTal 7y ago
>If you’re more interested in how this impacts you, just know this: whether you want to convert “decades-old family photos” to 3D, or you want to convert your professional portraits into 3D-like creations, FB now lets you do that. You just need to upload it using the Facebook app on “an iPhone 7 or higher, or any recent midrange or better Android device.”
...aaaand that's the motivation for this feature - persuading people to upload more photos to Facebook.
- xeromal 7y agolol, you say this like it's a revelation. Why would a company build a feature in their product and not expect people to use their product to use the feature.
- ThePadawan 7y agoThere's a significant difference between "this works for all your current pictures on Facebook" and "you need to choose to upload some specific pictures on this specific app to use this feature". The latter will get you a far better information on what people want to see turned into 3D.
- IAmEveryone 7y agoThe text is ambiguous, but I would interpret it as "Photos need to be on Facebook to do this, so those not already on[...]" rather than "This works only on Photos newly uploaded".
- shawnz 7y agoWhy would they need to restrict the feature to new photos only to get that information? They could just use telemetry and see what photos people pick if they wanted to.
- dillonmckay 7y agoLike pytorch?
- peteretep 7y ago> ...aaaand that's the motivation for this feature 5 imaginary dollars says it's just something their AI team built and thought was cool so they rolled it out.
- lynndotpy 7y agoWouldn't there need to be some business motivation to push that all the way through QA and localization and all the other steps before it hits production?
- peteretep 7y agoZuck having an interest in 3D shit should do it
- shawnz 7y agoThe business interest could be attracting talent by advertising their technologically interesting projects in the news
- filleduchaos 7y agoCall me silly but I am extremely certain Facebook is not exactly struggling to attract tech talent to the point that they'd build, test and deploy non-trivial features just to do so.
- shawnz 7y agoMaybe the reason they're not struggling now is because they already have a history of doing things like this.
- filleduchaos 7y agoOr maybe it's being one of the biggest companies in the industry and having hundreds of billions of dollars to throw behind compensation and other perks. Nah, you're right, they put entire teams to work building and maintaining user-facing features so they can add a couple thousand more applicants to the hundreds of thousands they already get.
- shorts_theory 7y agoWhy would it need an "iPhone 7 or above" when the depth map is calculated on FB's servers?