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The iPhone captures depth when you take the photo. So the data just needs to be extracted, not generated from scratch.

• perryizgr8 5y ago
  Yeah that's why I can't understand why they need a dedicated GPU.
  • jffry 5y ago
    See jaywalk's reply to you from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982727 It sounds like the discrete GPU is only needed for specific things which seem like they could reasonably need a discrete GPU (We're both talking about the "Minimum Requirements" section on https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait, in the bottom right of the page below the big blue buy button)
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