{
 "id": 69864,
 "slug": "turning-old-photos-into-spatial-photos-on-apple-vision-pro",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/turning-old-photos-into-spatial-photos-on-apple-vision-pro/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Turning old photos into spatial photos on Apple Vision Pro",
 "subtitle": "One tap in Apple Photos adds a third dimension to any picture.",
 "summary": "In 2024 I used Apple Photos to convert decades-old digitised family photos into spatial photos with a single tap. Viewed on Apple Vision Pro they appear life size and three dimensional, and any photo works, no special camera needed.",
 "topics": [
  "Vision Pro",
  "apple",
  "people",
  "photo"
 ],
 "date": "2024-09-10",
 "published": "2024-09-10T00:00:00+02:00",
 "created": "2026-08-30T07:13:46.858000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-08-30T07:17:08.773000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2024-09-10_i-see-dead-people/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "Can you turn old 2D photos into 3D spatial photos on Apple Vision Pro?",
 "text": "Apple Photos can analyse any photo and infer depth information using image recognition. One tap creates a spatial representation that accounts for persons, objects and surroundings. There is no special requirement on the input: I used analogue family photos, digitised and tagged by my brother, some over 40 years old.\nOn a flat screen the result looks much like the original. Projected on Apple Vision Pro's three dimensional display it changes completely: family members appear real size in front of you, and you notice details like how a jacket wraps around a body, how hair is touched by the wind and where somebody is looking. My brain stopped treating it as an image. I expect cameras with stereoscopic lenses and lidar to enrich spatial photos further, but the point is that it already works with the photos you have.",
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}