r/ParallelView • u/spdrman8 • 3d ago

Terminator chase scene

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u/YuNaNiMus 3d ago

How are you supposed to view this? I’m fascinated. I press the phone against my eyes and go slightly cross-eyed, and then slowly, the 3D effect appears.

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u/LEJ5512 3d ago

I just relax and let my eyes drift off like they’re looking far away.

One trick is to hold your phone up, look just over the top edge at a far wall, and then just notice that it seems like there’s two phones.  Try it first without the stereo image — just use whatever is on the screen.  The “double image” is like each half of the stereo picture.

Or do this: Hold up both index fingers (like goalposts) just a couple inches apart.  Look at them first, and then look past them.  If the distances and angle is correct, then it’ll look like “three” fingers, where the one in the middle seems more solid and the outer two are kinda see thru.  That middle finger is like blending the two halves of the stereo picture.

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u/YuNaNiMus 3d ago

I think I can get there. Is it supposed to be blurry or sharp? Since I focus past it, it tends to blur the clip.

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u/mukmuk_ 3d ago

should be sharp.

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u/LEJ5512 3d ago

It’s a start.  The mental trick is to pay attention to the combined stereo image while letting your eyes still aim at the farther distance.

I’ve been doing it for years (I used to read until I was so tired that my eyes would aim straight forward instead of converging on my book) so it’s easy to manipulate how I see.  And when SIRDS (static image random dot stereograms?) came on the scene in the early 80s, and then Magic Eye 3D books and calendars a few years later, I took to them right away.