Apple and LG collaborate on 3D camera for next iPhone

LG and Apple are working together on a 3D camera for the next generation of iPhones, according to a new rumor. It is unknown what 3d applications Apple has in mind for the next iPhone and what LG’s input is.

The 3D camera will be in Apple products that appear in the second half of next year, writes the South Korean publication Hankyung. Apple uses the dual camera in the iPhone 7 Plus for zooming in good light and for blurring the background in the camera’s portrait mode. Presumably the 3D camera elaborates on that.

LG previously made a 3D camera module for its 2011 Optimus 3D, a smartphone with a dual camera for 3D recordings and a stereoscopic screen to display it. According to Hankyung, LG also supplies the camera module in the iPhone 7 Plus.

There have been rumors for a long time about next year’s iPhone, which will appear ten years after the first iPhone went on sale in 2007. According to previous rumors, those devices will have OLED screens and ceramic zirconia housings.