StereoPhoto Maker across platforms and devices: macOS Wine bundle, Windows 11, Vision Pro, Meta Quest, Lume Pad, Looking Glass, Nintendo 3DS and iPhone.
Extract Depth Maps from iPhone HEIC Portrait Photos (SPM v6.41) Some iPhone portrait photos carry a hidden second image: the depth map the phone computed for its blur effect. Since v6.41, StereoPhoto Maker can extract that depth map from HEIC portrait photos that contain depth information. This guide explains which files qualify and what the…
Nintendo 3DS MPO Files in StereoPhoto Maker The Nintendo 3DS was, for a generation of users, their first stereo camera — and it wrote everything as MPO files. Those files are fully readable today: StereoPhoto Maker opens 3DS MPOs natively and treats them like any other stereo pair. Get the files off the console 3DS…
Looking Glass Portrait & StereoPhoto Maker: Calibration via visual.json The Looking Glass Portrait is a holographic frame that displays light-field images without glasses. StereoPhoto Maker connects to it in a specific, documented way: since v6.12 it can read the display’s calibration values from the visual.json file a Looking Glass unit carries, and use them for…
Lume Pad, Nubia Pad 3D & RED Hydrogen One: SPM Imports Their Pairs (v6.33+) Glasses-free 3D tablets keep stereo photography alive as a display medium: Leia’s Lume Pad line, the Nubia Pad 3D, and before them the RED Hydrogen One phone. Since v6.33, StereoPhoto Maker imports the separated left/right images these devices produce — treating…
Viewing StereoPhoto Maker Output on Meta Quest Meta Quest headsets are the most common way people view stereo photos in VR today, and they are format-flexible: side-by-side images are the lingua franca. This guide takes a StereoPhoto Maker master and turns it into files that display correctly in a Quest, with the geometry pitfalls removed…
StereoPhoto Maker & Apple Vision Pro Spatial Photos Apple Vision Pro displays “spatial photos”, and iPhones shoot them as HEIC stereo pairs — the same pairs StereoPhoto Maker has handled since v6.40 through its bundled spphotolib library. This guide covers the practical loop: get spatial photos into SPM, work on them, and get stereo images…
StereoPhoto Maker on Windows 11: What to Expect StereoPhoto Maker is a portable Windows program, and it runs on Windows 11 the same way it runs on earlier Windows: unzip, run the EXE. The author has not published a Windows-11-specific statement, so this page sticks to what the program’s design guarantees and what Windows 11…
StereoPhoto Maker on Mac: The Official Wine Bundle, Honestly Explained There is no native Mac version of StereoPhoto Maker, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What the author provides is an official macOS package that wraps the Windows build in Wine. Used with the right expectations, it is a genuinely workable way to run…
