“Vintage VR: A Method of Processing 19th Century Stereoviews for Display on 21st Century VR Systems” by Schuster and Eddin
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- Vintage VR: A Method of Processing 19th Century Stereoviews for Display on 21st Century VR Systems
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Hundreds of thousands of stereoscopic view cards (stereoviews) produced in the late 1800s and early 1900s are being digitized in collections and museums worldwide. However, viewing this important part of media technology history requires dedicated stereoscopes or difficult eye exercises. With the recent spread of Consumer VR, a fresh way to view, study, and learn from this vast store of knowledge becomes available. In this project, we present an automated method to process digitized stereoviews and make them suitable for VR viewing.
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We would like to thank the New York Public Library for making the over 42,000 digitized images of the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views available to the Public Domain. We also thank the MozVR team for the A-Frame WebVR framework and Óscar Marín Miró for his original aframe-stereo-component.
