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The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps

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The above file was produced by making several calls to oiiotool, an image processing tool from the OpenImageIO project, which is also apart of the Academy Software Foundation. Finn Jaeger, who is the head of VFX at Replayboys, a film production firm in Hamburg, Germany, posted a screenshot a few weeks ago showing how multiple depth maps were being produced by his iPhone. Joel Joseph, a subject matter expert on the ArcGIS Desktop Products Suite in Mumbai, India, was kind enough to send me an HIEC-contained image he took on his iPhone 15 Pro.

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