When I was at my parents’ the other day I saw this stereo viewer, which had that old photo of the Empire State builders having lunch on a girder above the city, but in 3D in it, and I thought “I wonder if I could take some stereo pictures and get them to work in it?”. So I took it home and took a couple of photos of the back garden from, one with the camera in front of my left eye, and one with it in front of my right eye. I then printed them out and put them in the viewer, and hey presto! – I had a 3D picture of my garden.
So today I thought I’d go out and get some more interesting photos, and went for a drive. I ended up down the road in Stoneleigh and took these photos, along with a few others, which look quite nice in 3D. If your screen is the right resolution you can see this picture in stereo. There are several ways to do it, but basically you just need to have your left eye look at the left picture, and your right eye look at the right one. You can try putting your face quite close to the screen and then moving back from it and try to focus on the separate pictures, or just do what I do, and go slightly cross eyed so the pictures overlap, and then refocus so you see both pictures at once.
If you can do those magic eye things it’ll be quite easy. Although the resolution of your screen might make the gap between the pictures too wide.
I’ve worked out what makes a good 3D picture now though, so I might go out again sometime this weekend and see if I can get some even better stereo photos.