Comment by bigiain
11 years ago
I remember looking through this thing: http://eyestilts.com/intro.html at Burningman many years ago - it makes things look very un-real - much like tilt-shift photos. I suspect it might become pretty disorienting to fly using such odd optics...
The lens in this device are pretty close to the looking subject. If you have cameras with a wider separation on a drone they'll be farther asay from the subjects and the effect will be less extreme, they are also very difficult to mount with 3 meters of separation.
Use two GPS guided quadcopters, each with their own camera. Problem solved, and now you can dynamically vary the intensity of the depth perception.
"Problem solved", says - I suspect - the guy who's never tried to make even _one_ quad copter go where he wanted, never mind a pair of them controlled to optically-accurate positions! ;-)
That device is awesome! I would love to try it. It would be fairly simple to simulate the effect in any game with VR goggles.
A really weird effect I've tried is to reverse the images each eye sees. I did this (first unintentionally, then deliberately) with my 3D television. It inverts the depth perception, so a small object in the foreground looks like it's sunken deep into the background. But mostly it's just confusing and stressful on the eyes, since there's presumably no evolutionary preparation to make sense of such visual input. Someone should make a physical optical device to offer this effect in the real world (it probably already exists).
Reminds me of this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/941/