Stereoscopic for Dummies
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The Purpose of 3D Glasses
Next time you are at the theatre watching a 3D film, try taking off your glasses for a moment and analysing what you see. What might appear to be a blurry mess is actually two slightly different images overlayed on top of each other. 3D Glasses are designed specifically so that each of your eyes is only able to view one of the two images it is presented with on the screen. Our mind then puts the images together and fills in the gaps, and as a result this allows us to gather more visual information as to the three dimensional depth of the scene we are observing.
The Great Illusion of Stereoscopic 3D
Our minds are essentially being tricked into believing that the objects we see on the screen have actual, physical space between them, because our eyes are cross referencing visual information from two separate