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Vintage Stereoscope + PSP = PSPscope 3-D Viewer

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Stereoscopy is a hobby of mine, and I have a large collection of devices for viewing 3-D images and videos, both high-tech and low-tech, but until recently, I didn't have a vintage "Holmes-style" stereoscope card viewer. That changed when I purchased a nice century-old viewer at the annual Stereo Club of Southern California auction http://www.la3dclub.com Only problem now was that stereocards are large and bulky, and lugging around a collection of images requires a large case. I figured that there had to be a digital solution.

I had already been playing around with transfering 3-D movies to my Sony PSP in side-by-side format for freeviewing, and had picked up the "Metal Gear Acid" game that comes with a cardboard 3-D attachment for the PSP, so it seemed that the PSP would be the answer. After all, the PSP has a nice wide screen with pretty good resolution, and can hold hundreds of JPEGs on it's internal memstick. It even has a built-in slideshow function.

As luck would have it, the PSP fits almost perfectly between the two wire card-holders on either end of the slidebar. Now, I didn't want to do anything to alter the viewer, as it is an antique, and I wanted the PSP to be removable, so i turned to my old friend Velcro to attach the PSP. I cut two loops of thin Velcro strapping, just long enough to go around the PSP, and slidebar, and fasten to itself. That's really all it took to hold the PSP firmly in place.

So now I can carry my whole stereocard collection around at once, instantly access any image, watch a slideshow, 3-D movie, or play a 3-D videogame on this marriage of 19th century and 21st century tech.

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Here is an anaglyphic (red/cyan) 3-D view of the PSPscope...

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and here is a side-by-side for freeviewing.

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