Transcend the limits of 3D with the Next-Gen SpatialGlass: new 3D-Enthusiast focused Experience

Re-revolutionizing your iPhone, again

UPDATE: SpatialGlass for iPhone 17 series is available to preorder.

We’ve listened to your feedback! The iPhone Spatial Display is impressive, but until now it has relied on a third-party 3D Fan App built on outdated technology, limiting its ability to fully unlock both traditional 3D content and the new Spatial content your iPhone can create.

With the new SpatialGlass app—built to complement the enhanced SpatialGlass—you’ll unlock a powerful suite of features that elevate your 3D viewing experience to the next level.

We’re working closely with the development team, suggesting improvements and new capabilities to make it the ultimate 3D program—the dream app for every 3D enthusiast.

Key Features

• Spatial Camera with 3D Previsualization
  The app includes a Spatial Camera feature that allows users to capture photos and videos with real-time 3D previsualization. Leveraging the iPhone’s advanced camera system (compatible with iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 16 series), this feature enables users to see a live 3D preview of their content as it’s being captured. Photos are taken in 16:9 aspect ratio to better fill your iPhone display. This ensures precise composition and depth, making it easier to create immersive spatial content optimized for both the Spatial Glass and any other 3D display you have.
• Direct Spatial Viewing Without Conversions
  The Spatial Glass app supports direct playback of spatial photos and videos without requiring any file conversions. Content captured with the iPhone’s native camera or third-party apps like Spatialify can be viewed instantly in 3D when using the Spatial Glass hardware. This seamless integration eliminates processing delays, providing a fluid and immediate 3D viewing experience on the iPhone’s screen. You can now work directly with HEIC and MV-HEVC Spatial content.
• The best 2d-to-3D Conversion on the world, with Strong Depth
  The app features advanced 2d-to-3D conversion capabilities, better 3D than any other competitor, transforming standard 2d photos and videos into immersive 3D content with exceptional depth. Utilizing customized best-in-class AI models, the app can show in realtime videos converted to 3D with very strong depth, significantly improving the depth perception compared to standard conversion methods, all while avoiding blurring artifacts on edges. This allows users to fully enjoy their existing media library in a new, three-dimensional way. The best part is that you can export the conversions into SBS or Spatial file. We challenge you to share a 3D conversion with your friends without telling them it’s not a native 3D photo. They won’t notice the difference… or they might just ask how you achieved such incredible depth.
  

Not convinced? We took this photo from a moving vehicle, cropped it to show the distant town, the 2d-to-3D conversion speaks for itself:

As you can see, this 3D image would be impossible to capture with any 3D camera. First, we used the iPhone’s 5x zoom, while Apple’s Spatial captures are limited to 1x zoom. Even with a 3D camera that supports optical zoom, the depth would be automatically adjusted so the trees don’t extend too far out of the display. Even avoiding the trees, the distant landscape would appear mostly flat, given how far away it is, achieving hyperstereo is practically impossible unless you use the Cha-Cha method -if you can find the right angles without obstacles- On top of that, even without people or vehicles in the frame, moving elements like wind-blown trees could ruin the hyperstereo depth.

With conversion, however, you gain other advantages: you can change 3D strength or adjust convergence freely, while seeing the results on your iPhone display. This also lets you identify areas that might cause ghosting and fine-tune both depth and convergence accordingly. Altogether, this flexibility not only produces a solid 3D image with default settings, but also lets you create the perfect 3D image of your dreams with just a few quick tweaks.

• Adjustable Depth Amount & Convergence While Viewing
  A standout feature of the Spatial Glass app is the ability to adjust convergence in real-time during playback. Users can select in any moment the focus of the content based on their viewing preferences, you can adjust how much inside or outside the images appear, all without losing 3D strength. Select between 3 strength settings -even our lowest setting doesn’t produce weak 3D images-, and fine tune if you like. All changes can be saved, by just remembering your setting for that image, or even creating a new Spatial or SBS copy of the image with your depth & convergence setting.
• Improved User Interface
  The app boasts a redesigned, intuitive interface that simplifies navigation and content management. Users can easily browse, select, adjust, and share spatial content, with streamlined controls. The interface is optimized for both novice and advanced users, ensuring accessibility while maintaining powerful functionality. It also integrates seamlessly with iCloud, allowing synchronized access to spatial content across Apple devices when Photos in iCloud is enabled.
• Web browser with 2d-to-3D conversion (images and videos)
  A brand-new browser with seamless content detection — simply open 3D content or choose to convert 2d media, and it will start playing in 3D immediately. Perfect for XtraReal.tv 3D videos.
• Automatic and manual detection of SBS content
  You can set to open your SBS content automatically in 3D. And because SpatialGlass supports vertical orientation, you can watch 3D photos in portrait orientation. Or watch half-SBS 3D videos. Your content in old formats is still supported, not only that, you can still modify depth and convergence settings and remember them (or save as a new file).
• Support for VR180 content
  3D content designed for VR headsets is also available to watch on your device. This new, more immersive format is becoming increasingly important, and Apple is supporting it — even producing content in this format — for its Apple Vision Pro. If you have a VR180 3D camera, you can instantly view the final result right on your iPhone, wherever you are.

Conclusion

The Spatial Glass app transforms the iPhone into a powerful platform for capturing and viewing 3D content.

This next-gen App and glass, delivers a cutting-edge experience with a user-friendly interface, for all iPhones from 13 to 16. It costs less than choosing a model with more storage — and the impact on how you use your iPhone is far more significant. Buy it now!