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Hello again Product Hunt! ✌️ I’m Jon, the creator of BOCA. Here to answer any questions today! TL;DR: BOCA extends the built-in portrait mode effect of the iOS camera by adding portrait mode to videos! Portrait mode is Apple’s name for a computational depth-of-field effect created by using data from the TrueDepth or dual cameras. BOCA lets you create videos with this effect. It also lets you increase of decrease the level of blur added to the video. 🛠 Key Features: - Record videos with depth information from the iOS TrueDepth or dual cameras - Preview the depth-of-field effect in the “viewfinder” - Use the slider to change the amount of blur — before or after taking the video - Edit (or remove) the portrait mode effect from previously recorded videos BOCA is built with React Native, and it's 100% open source: https://github.com/jonbrennecke/... I’m here today to answer any questions. If you have any feedback or thoughts, I'd love to hear it! If you have any other feedback or issues you can always email me at jon@highstreet.agency.

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5yr ago

James Peter Carroll

@highstreet @jonbrennecke hello Jon. It’s amazing your the only person to develop this type of app. Was wondering at what quality these videos are saved at? What is the maximum video length?

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5yr ago

Erreur Qutrecentqutre

@highstreet @jonbrennecke Can we retrieve both original video AND displacement map one ? thx

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5yr ago

Jonathan Richter

@highstreet @jonbrennecke @erreur_qutrecentqutre Being able to export the "depth pass" along with the RGB would seriously get you a whole new string of video makers. You're so close!!

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5yr ago

Jon Brennecke

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@highstreet @erreur_qutrecentqutre @jonathan_richter This is a great idea. The app already does this internally, so it would be easy to add. I'm working on an upgraded version of BOCA with more a few other features and I'll make sure to add this in there.

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5yr ago

Anna Filou

I wish this could be done without the iPhone’s special front facing camera 😢

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5yr ago

Jon Brennecke

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@anna_0x I know right! There's a couple apps (like Focos, which is excellent!) that use AI to generate a depth map from ordinary photos. So it's technically possible to do this without the fancy "TrueDepth" camera -- just really difficult. This is something I would love to look into supporting in the future!

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5yr ago

Anna Filou

@jonbrennecke Yeah I know, I mean, I wish it were possible to do in real time with video xD I'm sure it's not as easy as doing it with a photo (and it even takes a good while to generate a depth map)

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5yr ago

Joe Batutis

Not bad! Your app was hard to find until I opened the link above. Searching on the app store brings up a mountain of Toca Boca games. Took me a while to figure out what the mountain vs. flower symbols indicate. The effect itself worked pretty well, there were a few spots that it didn't recognize around my head. I'm using an apple xs max.

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5yr ago

Jon Brennecke

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@jbatutis thanks for trying it out! Yeah the name collision is an unfortunate error on my part. I may have to rename the app at some point, unless it's SEO increases :/ I appreciate your feedback about the mountain/flower symbols. My skills are more on the developer side than the designer side, but I'll take another pass at those icons!

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5yr ago

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