Bellus3D imagines the technology being used in a range of consumer applications, including: mobile gaming, custom eyeglass design, virtual make-up sessions, medical applications and custom dolls. The app is not all about 3D selfies though. The resulting 3D selfie videos can be saved, shared or posted on Facebook. Additionally, the face model can be viewed with interactive lighting, using the device's gyro to control viewing angles. The app then reconstructs a virtual high-resolution version of the face that can be rotated, zoomed and viewed in three dimensions.
The app does pretty much the same thing as the accessory camera but does not require any additional hardware as it is making use of the iPhone X's front-facing TrueDepth camera, which Apple uses for Face ID.įaceApp captures more than 250,000 3D data points on a face in 10 seconds while the user slowly turns their head in front of the camera. Bellus3D, a Silicon Valley startup that last year launched a 3D face scanning accessory camera for Android smartphones, today unveiled its FaceApp iPhone X application.
