I started wondering if I could align the left and right images of a 3d photo automatically. I don't know the first thing about how that’s done but fortunately I ran across the `VNTranslationalImageRegistrationRequest` part of Apple's Vision Framework which lets you provide two images and tries to return an alignment transform.

The trick with 3d photos is that the alignment is different depending on what you want the 'subject' to be.

I'd really like to be able to click the photo and have it align right there under the cursor.

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One of the more important aspects of processing 3d photos is getting the alignment of the two separate images right. Kind of like setting the focal point of the photo in post.

Most 3d cameras put some metadata in the file to help but I’ve found it to be inconsistent so I end up doing it manually.

I've built a couple UIs for this over the years that use sliders to manually align the images.
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I've been working on a Mac app for managing Spatial photos and video. More specifically, converting other formats to Spatial – finally my years-long collection of Nintendo 3DS photos can join my main Photos library in full 3D glory!

I'm tentatively calling it Stereotastic, as an evolution to an old 3DS photos website. I think I'll start sharing interesting mac/swift/spatial things in the process.

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