On screen stereo viewer

Looking at a 3D anaglyph (for red/ green glasses) is an easy way to quickly see 3D in a stereo pic.
But red/ green glasses are not always around and in an anaglyph the color information is lost. A stereo pair can be printed in color and then viewed in a 3D viewer, but who wants to print everything.
Another option is the cross eye method, but if you want to show family and friends, hardly anyone can see and many complain about headache... (???)

This viewer is easily adjustable in height and distance to the screen.

Materials: 2 wooden boxes
a (piece of) mirror
discarded halogen fixture

tools: saw with fine teeth or hacksaw and small files for finishing
glass cutter
glue

Step 1 The base

Halogen fixtures ('study light') have been around for a while, so it is easy to pick one up a discarded one.

Remove the power cord and the top part where the lamp should be. Replace it by a piece of wood which can tilt back an forth, not too easy. Later the viewer will be glued on this piece of wood.

The 12 V transformer in the base is nice and heavy so the viewer will not topple over very easily. The fixture can tilt back and forward, the height can be adjusted

Comments

[nutsandbolts_64]

I suddenly got an idea.... as with other ibles but I usually forget so I should list this

[astro boy]

 this was especially what i wanted to build but i don't think i would be able to do fine wooden work like this can i use cardboard.

[snowpenguin]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Materials: ... ... ... Spam! LOL

[BigCommieNat]

Nice!!!
I tried something like this a while back with two 14" displays and mirrors glued to foamcore... mine didn't work out so well :) Do you think a larger version of your stereoscope could be used with one adapter for each eye?

I'd like to point out that any Nvidia card capable of running two displays (almost any card in the last 7 years) can run stereo 3d, with one eye's output on each screen!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dstereo_drivers.html

install the latest version of your nvidia driver (reboot), install the stereo driver (reboot) then go in to graphics settings, advanced, stereo 3d ... and specify '2 monitor' . Any 3d graphics your card can render (IE any game you've been playing already) will now be rendered in actual 3d!

Sorry all, but this seems to be windows only...

Thanks again for the awesome setup!!!

[BigCommieNat]

Er...I wrote 'Do you think a larger version of your stereoscope could be used with one adapter for each eye?' I meant 'one adapter (stereoscope), large enough that each eye is focused on it's own monitor?

[BobS]

You know what: I had been thinking about this optical device to view full screen. Today I managed to get some optical stuff from a photo store which did 2nd hand sales. :) It is going out of business. So if my design (now only in my head) would work, you can look forward to an instructable in a week, or month or so.............

[BobS]

Did not work out...Been getting quite busy lately.. I think the way forward is to employ the viewer screens of discarded digicams

Wouldn't that be a toppy instructable!!!

To hack the displays of former popular models!!!!!!

The optics could easily be designed or to be determined by trial and error, if someone could hack the back screens of digicams. It could trigger a new generation of experiencing movies and games

[BigCommieNat]

with all the small netbooks out there sporting 800x400 or 1024x 600 displays... getting two of them (and getting them to work from VGA or DVI output) .. well... there's a lot ofreasonably high-res , small displays out there... and you could almost make a full stero headset out of those. Good to hear from you again!!! I'll see if I can track down replacement screens and encoder for a eee PC or an acer aspire one... and post the results.

[ARTYFISHALL]

You should use Windows Defender, or, similar. Then you would not get Spam on your computer.

[Da_Fudge]

haha LOL

[Havoc481]

lol

[Kiteman]

(It's anaglyph, not anagram.)

How does this make a red/green anaglyph seem 3D? You have to filter the information to each eye so that each eye perceives a slightly different view - this does not do that.

Or have you gotten mixed up with stereograms, which send two separate, slightly-different images to the eyes for the 3D effect?

Example of an anaglyph

Example of a sterogram

[BobS]

Thanks for the correction. When I make a pair of pics, to be viewed as stereo, I usually display them next to each other on the screen, and I cross my eyes. Works for me! But hardly any of my friends can do this, so I convert it into an anaglyph, so they can view. Because I do personal viewing only, I never think of the L and R pic as a stereogram, which it is of course. The viewer is to see 3D in a stereogram.

[BobS]

Without incorporating lenses into the system it will be a huge, furniture size contraption. But if you have enough space, it could be built. Another line of development would be to use smaller, high resolution screens. You would be on the way to make a virtual helmet.