Immersity

Immersity is Leia Inc.'s 2D-to-3D conversion service, and it is the direct descendant of LeiaPix — leiapix.com now redirects here, and the rebrand to Immersity was announced in June 2024 alongside video conversion. If you remember LeiaPix as a toy that made photos wiggle, the current product is broader: it turns still photos into depth-animated clips, converts ordinary video into stereo 3D for headsets and 3D displays, and exports raw depth maps for people building their own 3D pipelines. It runs as a web app, with a free mobile app for short watermarked reels, and the underlying business is Leia's Spatial AI stack, which also ships as OEM hardware for device makers.

What it does

There are three output families, and choosing between them is the first decision the product forces on you.

Immersive Motion turns a single photo into a short clip with depth-aware camera movement. It exports MP4 up to 4K or GIF up to 360p, and it plays on any ordinary screen — phone, laptop, social feed. This is the output for people who just want their stills to feel alive in a timeline.

3D Image and 3D Video produce genuine stereo files: side-by-side (full or half), cross-eyed, top-bottom, anaglyph, LIF, HEIC spatial photos for Apple devices, and MV-HEVC video for Apple Vision Pro and other XR headsets including Meta Quest. Video conversion accepts MP4, MKV, and MOV in H.264 or H.265 up to 2 GB. The catch is in the viewing: a stereo file is two images side by side on a normal phone. You need a stereo display, a headset, anaglyph glasses, or cross-eyed viewing to see depth. Leia's FAQ is explicit that Immersive Motion is what plays on standard 2D displays.

The third family is depth maps — 16-bit grayscale PNGs where lighter areas are closer — plus the ability to import your own disparity map into the pipeline. These are working files for 3D and compositing use, not viewing outputs. There is also an Apple Music Album Motion export (MOV, in 1:1 and 3:4) that follows Apple's artwork-motion technical guidelines, which is a narrow feature but a real one for musicians.

Engine-wise you can select between Immersity 4.0 and the older 3.0. The trade-off is documented and slightly awkward: 4.0 consumes more credits per conversion, and editing the generated depth map is only possible in the 3.0 engine.

My testing notes

Three things from my pass over the product and its pricing struck me.

First, the pricing is cheap at the front and needs arithmetic at the back. At time of writing, immersity.ai/pricing lists Free at $0 with unlimited watermarked conversions up to 720p and no commercial use, then paid plans by monthly credit allowance: Image at $4.99 (500 credits), Image Pro at $14.99 (1,700), Video at $24.99 (3,300), Video Pro at $49.99 (7,500), and Video Max at $99.99 (20,000) — all with 4K output, no watermark, and commercial use included. The credit costs are where the real price lives: a 3D image runs 20 or 35 credits, an Immersive Motion MP4 runs 30 to 160, Album Motion runs 500, and video is charged per minute of input by resolution — 100 credits at 720p, 200 at 1080p, 250 at 1440p, 300 at 4K, 600 at 8K. Frame rates between 30 and 60 fps double the per-minute charge, and 360-degree video adds 300 credits. Do that math against the $4.99 plan: a single minute of 4K source is 300 of your 500 credits. The table charges by input quality, not output, so a 4K phone clip costs triple what the same clip costs at 720p even if you export 1080p. I would check source resolution before choosing a plan — that one habit is the difference between the entry tier being generous and being gone in a day.

Second, credits expire every month and the escape hatch is closed. Separate credit packs are no longer sold; the documented route to more credits for one heavy month is to upgrade and downgrade later. For a workflow with occasional spikes — one conference batch, one album launch — that means temporary upgrades are the norm rather than a top-up purchase. It also means the estimated conversions printed on the pricing page (up to 16 Immersive Motions on the $4.99 plan, up to 33 minutes of 3D video on the $24.99 plan) are ceilings under ideal credit use, not guarantees.

Third, the free tier is a real sandbox: unlimited conversions at 720p with a watermark and no commercial rights, plus a 20-second watermarked sample before any full video conversion so you can check the depth quality on your own footage before committing credits to it. The free mobile app exports Immersive Motions for reels from up to five photos with a minor watermark. That sample-before-spend pattern is the right design for a conversion tool where depth quality is content-dependent.

The depth quality itself is the product's center of gravity and its soft spot. Leia's model is good at scene-level depth for photos and clean footage; multiple independent write-ups note that Immersive Motion zoom settings can crop the frame and edges may stretch, and that video frames are processed independently, which can leave temporal jumps in the stereo output. There is no per-frame depth control — it is an automated pipeline — so if your project needs frame-accurate depth grading you are in Nuke-plugin territory, not here.

What it does not do

It does not make holograms. The holographic depth experience Leia markets requires switchable-display hardware built into a device, and that hardware is an OEM play — on your current screen you get parallax or stereo files, not a floating image. Directory write-ups that promise 'holographic' output on ordinary hardware are overstating what the software does.

It does not give you a 3D object. Immersity generates depth-based imagery and video; it does not produce rotatable mesh models of your subject (one review site claims GLB/GLTF object extraction — I found no evidence of that on the vendor's current feature set and treat it as stale or wrong). It does not let you hand-fix depth maps in the newest engine; that is 3.0-only. GIF exports stop at 360p. Uploads are capped at 2 GB per video. And 3D Image/3D Video outputs are useless without playback hardware — only Immersive Motion is universally viewable.

Documentation conflicts deserve a mention: the site FAQ still states that no free version of Immersity for Web exists, while the pricing page shows a free plan with unlimited watermarked conversions. The pricing page is the more current surface in my judgment, but the contradiction is there. Third-party listings carry contradicting prices altogether — one review blog lists a $15 'Pro' and $45 'Team' plan, another directory lists $9.99 Pro and $29.99 Business — none of which match the vendor's current tiers. Ignore directory pricing for this product; the vendor page governs, and I have sourced every number above to it.

Verdict

Immersity is the cheapest credible way into 2D-to-3D work I have tested: a genuinely usable free tier, paid entry at $4.99 a month, and output formats that cover social clips, Apple spatial pipelines, headset stereo, and raw depth maps in one place. The credit metering is where casual users will get surprised, the video engine has known temporal artifacts, and the hologram marketing oversells what a standard screen can show. Buy it for Immersive Motion and depth-map generation, budget credits against input resolution, and verify the FAQ-versus-pricing contradiction before you rely on free-tier terms. Rated 3.7: strong functional breadth across motion, stereo, and depth-map outputs offset by no per-frame control (3.8), good value on the entry tiers with credit expiry as the tax (3.9), a decide-your-destination-first workflow that is learnable but not obvious (3.6), a real multi-platform ecosystem with thin support documentation (3.2), and mixed reliability signals from a hardware company with inconsistent product docs (3.3).

Sources

• https://immersity.ai/pricing
• https://immersity.ai/
• https://www.leiainc.com/
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• https://rightaichoice.com/tools/immersity-ai
• https://wavel.io/ai-tools/immersity-ai
• https://aiindigo.com/blog/2026-review-immersity-ai
• https://appcritica.com/review/immersity-ai
• https://tasarim.ai/en/discover/ai-3d-modeling/immersity-ai
• https://owl3d.com/guides/2d-to-3d-converters