1/28/2004   slide 30
Seeing in 3D—Stereo Vision
•Binocular vision helps give us sense of depth
•Only noticed recently (relatively speaking) in 1838 by Charles Wheatstone!
•More in CS graphics lecture
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Kodak autostereoscopic display
ViewMaster
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus/GALLERY/Gallery.html
In addition to all these rules/cues, we often have another very strong method of determining depth and surface relations: stereo vision.

Some people don’t have stereo—even though they seem through both eyes. Can live fine w/out it, but maybe not do certain professions…

HTMW p219. (some people see from both eyes, but not in stereo-separate brain processing needed)


Official Website of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference  http://www.stereoscopic.org/