P3D about "Converting 2D into Simulated 3D"

["Sergio Baldissara" <winter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it loooks like such discussions rise worldwide... a fellow member of the
italian list holostereoitalia@xxxxxxxxxxx proposed to convert pictures into
VR objects, so one could do virtual projections of such objects and build up
the "ideal" (orthostereo-tautomorphic) stereo pair.
At first glance I got scandalized, but quickly realized that most of today's
commercial 3d is indeed computer-generated VR (think about new VM reels,
whose subjects are mostly cartoons). Surfing the web I met several "3d
scanners" able to acquire small objects in 3d, mostly digitizing laser
interference fringes. At least one of them is nearly affordable (offered at
$1,200 brand new).
Some "digital holography"  softwares use another technique borrowed from
photographic-plate-holography, and build 3d virtual objects from multiple
pics of the rotating objects, or shot all around them. This method allows to
capture bigger objects (cars) in 3d.
The results of all these devices don't look "photographic" in quality, and I
suspect scanning times are "geological" and operating files take several
GBs, just to digitize single (or a few) objects.
My interests are mainly photographic, nevertheless curiosity compelled me to
search  the web for some software starting from a simple stereo pair (better
hyperstereo?) but I couldn't find anything.
Such a software exists (some companies offer multiple-frame-3d-lenticular
prints from stereo pairs or even from 2d pics)  but it doesn't seem it's yet
offered as an end-user product.
Sergio