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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today's news is that director James Cameron personally banked $350 million making 3D blockbuster Avatar. So is 3D the next big thing? Well… it always has been. 3D images have been around for almost ...

To share intriguing pictures with your family and friends during the Victorian era, you would purchase stereoscope viewing cards and show them to people in your home. Call it the “Instagram” of the ...

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"This triumph of human ingenuity is the most audacious, remote, improbable, incredible,--the one that would seem least likely to be regained, if all traces of it were lost, of all the discoveries man ...

It’s an unfortunate consequence of growing older, that no longer are you able to read the print on a SOT-23 package or solder a QFN without magnification. Your eyes inexorably start to fail, and to ...