Paging 3D fans

[ffutures]

There is apparently about to be a Viewmaster app for iPhones etc. that will let their owners download classic Viewmaster 3D reels and see the pictures in 3D. Eventually to be available for other platforms, apparently including Windows.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/view-master-fisher-price/

Shame that Viewmaster images were so tiny. Hopefully the master negatives are a bit bigger and higher definition. We will see...

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

cf. http://gizmodo.com/5788160/hasbros-goofy-my3d-goggles-are-better-than-they-look

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Yes, the My3D is awesome. I was handing it around at last year's Eastercon with some of its little games, but it's even better as a viewer for 3d photos. In some ways preferable to my Cyclopital viewer, which cost huge amounts of money.

I get tired of this 'goofy goggles' thing. Nobody suggests that microscopes are goofy.

In other 3d news, Brian May's putting together another book of Victorian stereo cards -- this time the fantastic Diableries.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Vtech currently sell a kiddy digital camera which has a built-in game that sounds a lot like the shooting game mentioned in the article, though not 3D, with little blobby aliens flying around the room. Now if Nikon started to do things like that...