- One UI 6.1.1 introduces a Live Effect feature that takes a 2D photo of a person or a pet and turns it into a short parallax video.
- This video can then be used as your lock screen or cover screen wallpaper.
- Live Effect is available on the Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Z Fold 6 but will be coming to other Galaxy devices getting the One UI 6.1.1 update.
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Flip 6 at its second 2024 Galaxy Unpacked event, they spent a lot of time talking about the new cover screen personalization options. For example, they highlighted how the phone can use AI to create a custom wallpaper or apply weather effects to your lock screen photo. While these two features greatly expand the number of ways that Flip users can personalize their cover screen, they aren’t actually new, as they first appeared on the Galaxy S24 series earlier this year. There’s one wallpaper feature that’s actually entirely new to One UI 6.1.1 that didn’t get talked about as much, though: Live Effect.
Live Effect is a feature that extracts depth information from 2D photos of people or pets to create a parallax photo. Normally, to create a parallax photo, you need multiple photos at slightly different angles to capture depth information. However, it’s long been possible to simulate this process with a single, flat 2D image. By using a machine learning algorithm to separate the objects in the foreground from the objects in the background, you can then simulate a parallax effect by inferring depth information from the original image, projecting the foreground and background into 3D space, and then moving a virtual camera to produce the effect.