In iOS 26, you can take almost any 2D photo you’ve captured with your phone and give it a 3D parallax effect, where it looks like you can peek around the foreground of your image when you move ...

The parallax effect causes the plane to appear to be remaining still because of the position and motion of the viewer.

Parallax effect Apple is also applying on-device computer vision to generate spatial depth maps from your photos. The result: an almost 3D-like parallax effect that reacts as you move your iPhone.

Parallax can be demonstrated by looking at a pencil with one eye or the other. (Image credit: Getty Images) That’s the parallax effect, and it happens because the angular direction to the pencil ...

With Originate, which is from the same developer of the Cosmicast app, you can create drawings in parallax and interact with them in AR.