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I had my eyes focused to see the hidden image the same way I always do. But this time I was scrolling the picture on an iPad and the next one was coming up and it was directly in focus and the next one too.

This was real incredible - no need to focus again - it is like living in this hidden world.

If you never experienced this I recommend to try it - at least for me it was a wow moment.

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I drive Curiosity and that's how I often view our raw downlink images. They aren't stereograms, but the left and right eyes are next to each other on the report, so I just cross my eyes to get the stereo and scroll the page. Works great but despite my trying to spread the good word I think I'm the only rover planner who does this.

> “I drive Curiosity”

“What kind of SUV is that? He can’t mean… Oh, he does…! Holy s**t”

"My other car is Curiosity."

Wow! I just checked your CV (we were at Cambridge at the same time :) ), and I will never dismiss a Geography degree again!

Honestly... it turned out alright but I wish I had done something more rigorous in undergrad. I had to do a lot of math self-teaching to catch up for grad school. The most useful stuff I learned at Cambridge was from the caving club and from my mathmo / compsci housemates.

Also, thanks for the reminder to update my cv X-D

Too late.

Stupid funny-pages trick: "Spot the Differences", you can cross your eyes and the things that "shimmer" are the differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_the_difference#Solving_te...

It might be overkill but a VR headset would make that significantly easier for people.

We actually use NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 in 3D simulation environments during planning. It's great but quite hard to keep it working because NVIDIA doesn't support it any more. Our software falls back to analgyph for systems that can't run the 3D Vision and I end up using anaglyph a lot and it's totally fine.

We've experimented with VR a bit but it hasn't caught on yet. We've also been trying a few other 3D display technologies.

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