DEMOCRITIUS of Abdera, commonly known as the Laughing Philosopher, probably because he did not consider the study of truth inconsistent with a cheerful countenance, believed and taught that all bodies ...

We’re happy to present this guest post from History Hacker’s [Bre Pettis]. Today [Bre] catches up with the Blinkenlights team, who turn entire buildings into displays. Their current project is ...

Long before the introduction of those little cardboard, blue-eye, red-eye 3D glasses, Americans knew how to create three dimensional entertainment. They used hand-held devices – precursors to ...

Invented in 1838 as a tool for investigating theories of vision 1, the stereoscope is sometimes described as an early virtual reality tool. In the years following its invention, the stereoscope and ...

We've been slowly working through Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1859 feature on photography over the last couple of days. I looked at allegorical readings of the piece and at the beauty of his science ...

If you walked into Charles Herzog’s classroom last spring, you’d have seen a peculiarly modern sight: middle schoolers all staring into virtual-reality gear. Their bodies, officially, were at Flood ...

Australian astrophysicist Paul Bourke has made what must be the only stereoscope in the world from a pair of iPod photos – iPod-Photo stereoscope: "n the early days of photography, stereoscopic ...

Submitted PhotoA stereoscope slide of Forman Park. When viewed through a stereoscope, the pictures merge together in a 3-D scene. When the weather turns nice and visitors peer through a new scope at ...

Researchers at Stanford University have unveiled a prototype VR Headset which they claim reduce the effects of VR sickness through the use of an innovative ‘stacked’ display which generates ...

Dear John: I have attached photos of a viewer - we cannot remember what it is called - that has been in our family for at least 90 years. Can you tell us the name of the thing and what the value might ...

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