Video Stereoscope

Posted by on December 26th,2006

3d video viewing stereoscope

Over at Make:Blog (and through the kind notification of Mr Josh Swinehart) we find an impressively modified antique stereoscope, changed to allow the viewing of 3d video. I do like this – it’s very much combining the ingenuity of the Victorians with the technology of today – here, the creator was gifted this stereoscope viewer, but had no media to view. They solved this by using two ‘clix‘ media players for the input – one for each eye. This required no small amount of ingenuity – requiring metalwork and creative video recording with two cameras. The result seems to be a quirky, and quite Steampunk, 3d video viewer in a Victorian style, at a not too terrible 15 frames per second. Very well done indeed!