MARCH 25, MONDAY

ONE EYE OR TWO?

This morning I had a revelation. Almost no one can see my spatial videos the way that I can, in crystal clear 3D, on my Vision Pro. But it turns out that when I make spatial videos or spatial photographs, that few people can see in 3D form , I am not entering another world that I can’t share with anyone else. I am just sharing two worlds at the same time, one which people can see with one eye, and one that they can see with two. The flat screen version of spatial videos is very clear and sharp. The 3D version of spatial videos is only clear and sharp on the expensive Vision Pro. There are alternative ways of seeing spatial video which I have tried out: Google Cardboard, 3D eye glasses and the Zapbox which convey the feeling of three dimensions to various degrees of color and sharpness which only hint at the effect of spatial video or photography on the Vision Pro. I have peered through the $500 Meta Quest 3 which I suspect is fairly close to the quality of the Apple Vision Pro but haven’t seen 3D movies on it although I have witnessed demonstrations of clunky 3D games.

So in putting spatial videos on billybaba.com I can share with people who prefer to look with one eye in two dimensions and with people who want to invest in looking with both eyes in 3 dimensions. Both can be very clear depending upon how much you want to invest, on how much you want to enter the world of 3 dimensions.

The second thing I am realizing is that this is a brave new 3 dimensional world that everyone will enter sooner or later and that it will become clearer and sharper and less and less expensive to do so. Someday almost no one will be satisfied with the flat screen two dimensional one eyed world of TV, movies in movie theaters, Facetime and maybe even printed photographs. But that will come slowly and over time.

Right now I can share with people who prefer to look with one eye at a flat screen such as a computer screen or iPad or with people who prefer to look, as we normally do in the actual world, with two eyes at a 3 dimensional goggle experience. Someday, I am sure, we will be able to look at a 3 dimensional world on a flat screen which 3D glasses attempt to do now, but very poorly. But I am 86 and I cannot wait, so I’ll start sharing in this double way, both satisfactory, right now.