By Imagine standing in a dimly lit cathedral, raising your smartphone, and watching as it instantly maps every archway, pillar, and shadow in three-dimensional space. This isn’t magic—it’s the result of 3D depth cameras, a technology that has quietly revolutionized how our devices see and understand the world around us.
Unlike traditional cameras that capture flat images, depth cameras measure the distance between the lens and every point in a scene, creating a detailed three-dimensional map. You’ve likely experienced this technology firsthand: when your phone’s portrait mode blurs the background with uncanny …
