Re: Stereo panoramas

[John Goodman <jgood@xxxxxxxx>]

> 360 stereo is actually quite easy.
> take two pans one above the other by 3 to 5 inches.
> Display them one above the other in a large circle with the
> viewer in the middle holding a periscope viewer, which views one
> pan height in one eye , the other pan in the other eye. Voila
> Mark Segal <SegalPan@xxxxxxx>

Neat idea, but do you have links to people who've done this? 
And a source of periscope viewers? Also, wouldn't having the 
two pans in "vertical sync" (above and under) cause trouble in 
terms of the horizontal disparity required for our eyes to 
integrate a stereo effect? Under and over viewers, while 
effective, depend on the capture device's replication of the view 
of a pair of human eyes, left and right, with a horizontal 
displacement of about 65 mm for normal scenes, correct? 
There's a prohibition against shooting a stereo camera in a 
vertical orientation, for this very reason. Fwiw, I've seen a 
couple of stereo panos via the 'Net and they're fun. Anaglyph 
(red-cyan glasses), or based cross-eyed freeviewing.  

John Goodman
http://www.3-dviews.com