ABSTRACT
Today’s TV and most movie display technologies are monocular: Both eyes see the same thing. In contrast, a stereo display presents distinct viewpoints so an observer’s left and right eyes see di¤erent perspectives, delivering a sense of 3D. As already noted in the past two chapters, stereoscopic 3D video is primarily based on the binocular nature of human perception. 3D video is relatively easy to realize but not totally trivial at the artistic level. Two simultaneous conventional 2D video streams are produced by a pair of cameras mimicking the two human eyes that see the environment from two slightly di¤erent angles (see Figure 3.1 for an illustrative example). At the display level, one of these streams is shown to the left eye and the other one to the right eye.
