A twist of events after yesterday's camera flood left me with two working Flip camcorders. Seeing them side by side gave me an idea. It turns out that when placed next to each other, the lenses are positioned at just the right distance to potentially make for realistic stereoscopic recording.
I scotch-taped the Flips together and recorded some test footage. By playing it back in separate windows, I could simulate a stereogram that was extremely effective with either wall-eyed or cross-eyed viewing techniques:
Just for kicks, I'm going to try to get ahold of some software that will composite the video streams so I can upload it to Youtube 3D, but this got me thinking about (eventually) finding a compact housing that allows for 3D video capture. There are a lot of REALLY big and expensive ones out there for real video cameras, but the Flip is so small that two of them could potentially fit in some of the larger compact housings, or a DSLR housing. Definitely just a novelty idea, but a pretty amusing one IMO
I scotch-taped the Flips together and recorded some test footage. By playing it back in separate windows, I could simulate a stereogram that was extremely effective with either wall-eyed or cross-eyed viewing techniques:
Just for kicks, I'm going to try to get ahold of some software that will composite the video streams so I can upload it to Youtube 3D, but this got me thinking about (eventually) finding a compact housing that allows for 3D video capture. There are a lot of REALLY big and expensive ones out there for real video cameras, but the Flip is so small that two of them could potentially fit in some of the larger compact housings, or a DSLR housing. Definitely just a novelty idea, but a pretty amusing one IMO
