That's what Google Cardboard is; a stereoscope, traditionally used for viewing static 3D images (a left and a right, e.g. this meta stereogram of a woman looking through a stereoscope: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stereograph_as_an_edu... ), instead being used for a dynamic 3D image courtesy of a cell phone. You could literally tape any modern cell phone to any 150 year old stereoscope and you'd have Google Cardboard, or USC's equivalent.
(Personally, I backed the Poppy on Kickstarter, which is made of nice plastic: http://www.poppy3d.com )
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 17.1 ms ] threadCardboard stereoscopes were very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Here's a patent for one from 1902, for example: http://books.google.com/books?id=2jN9AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA849&ots=...
That's what Google Cardboard is; a stereoscope, traditionally used for viewing static 3D images (a left and a right, e.g. this meta stereogram of a woman looking through a stereoscope: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stereograph_as_an_edu... ), instead being used for a dynamic 3D image courtesy of a cell phone. You could literally tape any modern cell phone to any 150 year old stereoscope and you'd have Google Cardboard, or USC's equivalent.
(Personally, I backed the Poppy on Kickstarter, which is made of nice plastic: http://www.poppy3d.com )