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Ingrid Hoeben β“‹ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ

Boost when you know this (or still have it at home) glasses πŸ‘“πŸ•ΆοΈπŸ€ŽπŸ–€
#viewmaster #retro #vintage

A light brown viewmaster with a pack of viewmaster photo cards next to it.
Thin cardboard disks containing Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film.
The View-Master system was introduced in 1939.
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Iene :heart_sp_nb:

@IngridHbn De kinderen die ik kende die er een hadden hadden inderdaad zo eentje met ronde schijven, die van ons waren rechthoekig (dus met een duidelijk begin en eind).

Metin Seven 🎨

@IngridHbn Ik kan je VR aanraden. Dat is Viewmaster on steroids. πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘ Ik heb een Meta Quest 3. De games zijn erg leuk, en je zit er helemaal in. Goed voor de nodige beweging ook.

Ingrid Hoeben β“‹ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ

@metin ah... nooit van gehoord :) 'nodige beweging' triggert al wat aandacht...

Ingrid Hoeben β“‹ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ

@metin kan je nog iets vertellen ivm wat je allemaal kan doen met die VR?

Metin Seven 🎨

@IngridHbn 🧡 1/2

Het is 3D zoals je ook op de computer hebt (games en zo), maar dan zit je er volledig in, dus je kunt alle kanten op kijken doordat je een apparaat op je hoofd hebt, qua vorm ergens tussen een bril en helm.

Je hebt 360 graden 3D video's op o.a. YouTube die je echt het gevoel geven dat je ergens bent. Afgelopen week heb ik bijvoorbeeld een parachutesprong "gemaakt," door via een 3D camera op de helm van een parachutespringer te zien wat diegene ziet.

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Metin Seven 🎨

@IngridHbn 🧡 2/2

Je hebt sport en fitness games, zoals Synth Riders (zie video), waarbij je met twee controllers die je bewegingen registreren, één in elke hand, bepaalde lijnen en bollen moet raken en volgen. Dat soort games vormen een fijne workout.

Ik heb ook een game waarin je in een virtuele sportschool bokstraining doet. Dat is echt cardio fitness.

youtube.com/watch?v=mlujNiNkWI

Ingrid Hoeben β“‹ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ

@metin is volgens mij iets wat ik aan het zoeken was, maar in gedachten nog niet kon concretiseren :)

Hans van Zijst
@Ingrid Hoeben  β“‹ πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ Never seen one in this colour, I only know them in red with a black switch.
Sia Vogel

@IngridHbn In de speelgoedkist van vroeger waar de kleinzoons nu nog lol mee hebben.

Alex

@IngridHbn
I know it. My elder brother got one and I think also in this colour πŸ˜Šβ€‹,

MekkerMuis πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ ⛩️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸͺ‚

@IngridHbn precies dezelfde Viewmaster hadden wij. Helaas verloren gegaan en nu zit ik met de kaarten... 🀷

jan Langhammer

@IngridHbn Wow! This brings back memories. Thanx for sharing! β˜ΊοΈπŸ‘βœ¨

2xfo

@IngridHbn
I had a red one as a kid. The real life 3d images it showed were way cooler than any kaleidescope

preferred

@IngridHbn Those were cool. We had a red one, and not 100% the same overall design as this one here.

I absolutely thought they were cool when I was very young; had some photo-cards from the Swiss alps, etc, with pictures of the line-hanging "trams" going up the mountainside; can't remember all of the other cards; but; this was a neat and captivating little gizmo, imho! πŸ’ πŸ‘Œ πŸ‘

MidgePhoto

@preferred @IngridHbn
I have a couple of small 40mm focal length lenses and must stick them up as a viewer.

Also a pair of DSLRs bolted together.

Thus far I've played a little with the anaglyphic way of making 3D images, show the left camera image in red to the left eye, and the right camera image in cyan to the right eye.

Bit of a curiosity for most subjects, but entertaining.

Martin V.

@IngridHbn Wir hatten dieses Teil frΓΌher auch, und ich weiss schon nicht mehr, was wir damit alles schauen konnten.

apm77

@IngridHbn Grandparents had one, I remember playing with it. I have absolutely no memory what any of the pictures were.

ringo dk :endeavourOS: :arch:

@IngridHbn naam ben ik vergeten maar had het ooit wel gehad toen ik klein was

Bob LeFridge

I have a few bakelite viewers, several hundred rather old reels and a collection of stereo cameras including an original ViewMaster. They're still amazing machines.

@IngridHbn

Jos Pelser

@IngridHbn
Ik heb er een - pas gekocht.
Monique Hendriks (monique-hendriks.nl/) maakte onlangs een kunstproject hiervoor, erg mooi.

Shonin

@IngridHbn I had one; all I had for it was one card containing a Tom Corbett Space Cadet adventure. i.pinimg.com/originals/ba/61/7

David Nice

@IngridHbn Yes, the same beige, with accessories beginning with Finland (it was a present from a Canadian aunt whose husband worked for the embassy in Helsinki at the time), Batman, Disneyland, Flipper.

Arp Laszlo β€’ Comics β€’ AuDHD

@IngridHbn I had the talking one and I LOVED it. I’d look & listen to stories over & over (not too many, so they were on repeat).

Arp Laszlo β€’ Comics β€’ AuDHD

@deborahh @IngridHbn This was the one I had (pic 1), my favorite reels were from the 1976 King Kong movie.

Still, I would have traded it in a heartbeat for the Fisher Price movie viewer (pic 2). It had no sound but the pictures MOVED 😱

Arp Laszlo β€’ Comics β€’ AuDHD

@deborahh @IngridHbn I was 4 and wouldn’t discover Star Trek for another couple of years.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

@ArpComics oh, my dad introduced me to Ray Bradbury's "Barsoom" mars series books in my early teens. I suspect I was reading Heinlein in 1976 :-)
Star Trek was, of course, a tradition :-)

@IngridHbn

Roberto PlΓ 

@IngridHbn

I had one when I was a child. And a cardboard box with stereoscopic pairs of Barcelona, ​​where we had visited with my parents (We lived in LΓ©rida, 140km. away)
It was at home for a long time after the photos were lost. Some time after it disappeared I became interested in stereography again, and learned to visualize stereophotographs with the naked eye. Today, presbyopia and age have greatly diminished that ability.

flickr.com/gp/fotero/K279253C3

@IngridHbn

I had one when I was a child. And a cardboard box with stereoscopic pairs of Barcelona, ​​where we had visited with my parents (We lived in LΓ©rida, 140km. away)
It was at home for a long time after the photos were lost. Some time after it disappeared I became interested in stereography again, and learned to visualize stereophotographs with the naked eye. Today, presbyopia and age have greatly diminished that ability.

Jennifer

@IngridHbn I loved these when I was a kid! I haven't had one for decades. I actually saw a new one for sale at a museum recently!

Bodhipaksa

@IngridHbn I think they still sell them. My kids had one when they were younger, and they're still in secondary school.

Professor_Stevens

@IngridHbn

I have several that I use to help my students understand how 3D imaging systems work. I give them two with the discs in opposite directions. The challenge is to figure out which one is backwards.

ansuz / ΰ€ΰ€°ΰ€¨

@IngridHbn gonna show this to my niblings and tell them this is what early youtube looked like

Aaron C

@IngridHbn Still works! Just watched a reel on the U-505 at MSI in Chicago. 😍

A View-Master with several reels in a plastic box
HotspurπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@IngridHbn I whiled away more than one wintry evening with that. I remember when one could buy slides at souvenir shops at various tourist destinations around the country. I had one from Mount Rushmore.

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