Owl3D v2.7.0 makes the Shift easier to use every day: play your 3D videos, photos and models on it, set your own keys, and calibrate from every app on Mac.
Our last update is in the v2.6.1 post. New to the Shift? See the Owl3D Shift page.
Stay tuned on our Discord channel for upcoming updates and feature announcements!
What's New in v2.7.0
🖥️ Shift: new features
- 3D Player — The Playlist page is now the 3D Player. Open a video, photo or 3D model, and it plays on your Shift at once. 2D videos play in 3D. Auto Convergence sets the depth.
- Custom keyboard shortcuts — Settings has a new Keyboard shortcuts tab. Pick your own keys, for example for the Live 3D depth.
- Quick Calibration in every app (Mac) — Use it in Live 3D, Model Viewer and Photo 3D, in all 8 app languages.
- Depth preset (Mac) — A Pop-out / Comfort chip sits above 3D strength in Live 3D.
- Depth preset (Windows) — The same Pop-out / Comfort chip in Live 3D on Windows.
- Arrange displays — Drag the Shift to where it sits next to your main display.
- Setup guide — When a part is not connected, the Shift card says which one and shows the steps.
- Model Viewer animations — Choose which animation of a model plays on the Shift.
- Photo Viewer 3D strength — A slider sets the 3D strength and shows its value.
🖥️ Shift: improvements and fixes
- Mac Live 3D — The Live 3D camera starts reliably, and Live 3D no longer stops about 11 s after Start.
- Depth keys on any keyboard (Mac) —
[and]change the depth on every keyboard layout. - Side-by-side playback (Mac) — SBS playback no longer drops frames.
- Old stereo cards in Auto (Mac) — Live 3D Auto now finds scans of old stereo cards (borders, a gap or offset photos) and shows them in 3D.
- Windows Live 3D — Keeps running when the Shift display drops out for a moment, or when you plug in or remove another display.
- Shift off the desktop (Windows) — When the cable is in but the Shift is not on the desktop, the app sets your displays to Extend.
- Battery notice — The app tells you when your computer is on battery, because 3D may look worse.
- Camera prompt (Mac) — Names which end of the cable goes to your computer. Owl3D now shows in the Camera list of System Settings.
- RTX PRO 500 and similar cards (Windows) — Live 3D now accepts graphics cards with a 3-digit model number.
🎬 Converter: new features
- More output types — Choose Depth map only, your video beside its depth map (Balanced), each eye in its own file, Left eye only, Cross-Eye, and a ProRes profile.
- Double 3D depth — With Both eyes, a separate switch sets whether the depth is doubled. Turn it off for about the depth of one eye.
- First model download — The app shows the time left, and tells you when the download is done.
🎬 Converter: improvements
- Smoother scrolling — The converter page scrolls smoothly, also while a conversion runs.
- Your own depth map — The app no longer crops the black bars of a depth map you import. With a Time range, the depth map no longer falls out of step with the video. Convert waits until the depth map check is done.
- Black bars — When the app can't detect the black bars, the conversion still finishes, without cropping.
- A second try — When a conversion fails twice for the same reason, the card offers another way to convert.
- Engine crashes — After a crash, the app tries again and resumes the job.
- Low disk space — The app checks free space before a conversion starts, and tells you how many GB to free.
- "Up to N" text — Shows in all 8 app languages.
🎬 Converter: fixes
- Pause and Resume (StereoGen V2) — The result no longer loses or repeats a part of the video at the point you resumed.
- Damaged source files — The app names an empty or damaged file before StereoGen V2 starts. The failed card shows where the file is damaged.
- Add drawer — The Start button stays on screen in a short window.
- Time range — With several videos on Free, it shows First 1 min with Upgrade. It no longer shows for photos.
- Ready to Watch — The rows show the right details. History day groups fold again.
- Clear reasons — A failed save, a full disk or a missing source file now shows the reason and the next step, not a program error.
- iPhone spatial videos (Mac) — Videos with a Spatial Audio track no longer fail with Balanced.
- Norton, Avast and Kaspersky (Windows) — The app no longer uses PowerShell for folder permissions and windows, so Norton and Avast no longer block the app or a conversion. Kaspersky no longer flags the app.
- License check (Windows) — A conversion that starts close to the turn of the hour no longer stops with an Unauthorized access error.
- Balanced on AMD (Windows) — Balanced no longer stops on a missing model file.
- Large photos (Windows) — On a GPU with little memory, a photo that is too large converts at a smaller size, and the app tells you.
- StereoGen V2 stops (Windows) — When StereoGen V2 stops, the app says why: your plan, a damaged source file, Windows App Control blocking a file, or an untrusted network certificate.
- Non-English folder names (Windows) — Photos in a folder with Korean or other non-English characters convert again.
- Blocked networks — A sign-in check on a blocked network no longer signs you out.
- Mac updates — A waiting update is no longer downloaded again.
Owl3D Cloud
- Open Cloud from the app — The sidebar has an Owl3D Cloud item. When your computer can't run StereoGen V2, or a conversion fails on a GPU driver error, the converter offers StereoGen V2 Large in Cloud, up to 4K.
Download v2.7.0
- Windows: Download 2.7.0 (Windows). One installer for every NVIDIA, AMD and Intel card. The app picks the right engine for your card.
- Mac: Download 2.7.0 (Mac) (macOS 14 or later)
Happy Owl3Ding! 🦉
