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Google 'created' Cardboard which is an exact knockoff of the research done 2 YEARS ago by USC (it even won an award then at IEEE VR).
by nanavatiarpan 12y ago
Google 'created' Cardboard which is an exact knockoff of the research done 2 YEARS ago by USC (it even won an award then at IEEE VR).
- vitovito 12y agoEverything old is new again. Cardboard 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=mE8YvUZe4w&dq=cardboard%20stereoscope&pg=PA848#v=onepage&q&f=false 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_educator.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Stereograph_as_an_educator.jpg 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 http://www.poppy3d.com )