🎬 Former Meta employee Daniel Habib presented the True3D Window Mode project — a technology that transforms a regular laptop or smartphone screen into a “window with depth” that reacts to the user’s head movements.
The main feature of this innovation is that the 3D effect is achieved without glasses, VR headsets, or complex sensors. All that is required is a device with a front-facing camera. The program analyzes the head position in six degrees of freedom and recalculates the scene’s perspective in real time, creating the illusion of depth.
The system does not use classic stereoscopy (i.e., it does not show two separate images for the left and right eye). Instead, it mimics a natural sense of volume through movement and parallax — when the perspective of objects changes depending on the angle from which a person views them.
To achieve smoothness and realism, the algorithm applies smoothing, outlier removal, and latency minimization during movement. All computations occur locally, directly on the device, so that facial data is not sent to the cloud. This increases not only the speed of operation but also privacy.
According to the developer, the system is capable of working directly in the browser, without installing additional software. The first demo is already available on the project’s website, where users can upload their own video or use ready-made examples. The effect becomes immediately apparent: the image naturally responds to head movements, creating a realistic sense of presence.
Currently, support is announced only for iOS 26 and above, but in the future the technology may be adapted for other platforms.
Habib himself notes that the idea of a “three-dimensional window” is not new — similar experiments were conducted during the Wii Remote era, but only now does the computing power of modern devices allow it to be realized without noticeable delays or additional equipment.
The developer plans to release the source code for True3D Window Mode in a few days, which could provide a strong impetus for the development of this concept within the community of independent programmers and researchers.
💡 The technology is already being called “real 3D on a flat screen” — and judging by the first demonstrations, it truly is. The screen literally feels like a window into a digital scene, where you can change the viewing angle as if peeking inside the image.
The effect impresses even skeptics — it is definitely worth seeing.
A video fragment demonstrating True3D Window Mode can be viewed on our Telegram channel.
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