Yes, The Mask, and Kingavision, are still months away. Meanwhile, I’ve upgraded my SpaceBrains 3D process to version 3.0, and unleashed its dimensional might on the classic, and very weird, MST3K short, A Case of Spring Fever.
There are two versions available: One requires use of anaglyph (red/cyan) glasses, the other can be viewed by merely crossing your eyes until a 3D image forms in between. (“No glasses! Heh-heh-heh-heh! <<FWEE-FWOO!>>”)
Either way, your feedback is cordially invited. Enjoy!
here’s hoping i remember this once the kingaglasses come in, i would love to watch this in 3D! i was never really good at magic eye so gonna skip the eye crossing one.
I just checked out the cross-eye version and this one looks pretty darn good. The pocket-watch close-up at 1:20 was particularly pleasing to the eye, out of the bits I’ve watched so far.
Put the video in front of your eyes, then try to ignore it and imagine you’re looking through it at a distant mountain peak. When you focus at infinity (o close enough) your eyes are parallel. With some practice you can drop the mountain part and just relax your eyes at will to let them slide apart.
It feels like being a cartoon character who just took a blow to the head, so imagining that may help, too. Pretend you’re dazed and let your eyes go out of focus and lazy. One of the tricky bits is that videos in webpages are seldom scaled correctly for parallel viewing. Practice with the subject matter scaled way down, and when you get locked in, zoom in as far as you can comfortably.
When you get good at it, it’s much more comfortable than cross-eye. The downside is that resolution is limited by the pixel distance between your eyes, so a high dpi screen makes it more enjoyable.
Ah, ok. I thought it sounded like “Magic Eye”. With those I found it easiest if they were under glass, because then I could focus on a reflection, which optically speaking is “behind” the surface of the image and thus aids you to focus beyond it in that way. I think often I wind up unintentionally crossing my eyes and getting an inverted image, though.
