Magic Eye: The optical illusion, explained
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- The science behind the stereogram craze of the 1990s. You might have remembered when sterograms appeared on Seinfeld. Learn about how these images trick the brain.
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MagicEye.com www.magiceye.com/
MagicEye.js peeinears.github.io/MagicEye.js/
EasyStereogramBuilder.com www.easystereogrambuilder.com/...
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For those of you who are having trouble seeing it, really all you can try to do is imagine that whatever screen you're looking at is transparent, and then try to look *past* it, "into the distance".
The beauty of these pictures is that once you hit the right amount of divergence, the repeating patterns will lock themselves into place, and you'll be able to look around and see the hidden stuff freely, without your eyes converging back. Then, do it enough times and you will have full control over the divergence.
Take it slow though. Start with the picture with the Airplanes, Dinosaurs and Cakes, it is a HUGE help!
For those of you who are gonna say that this is fake, the hidden message at 6:31 is "wow you did it" and "good job", and for the still skeptical, the one at the end is a winky face.
I got perfect eye... and my brain works well enough for glitching my eyes balls into divergent dimension...
I mean I have 25/25.
you realise that 25/25 is the same as 20/20 right? the quality of vision is _/20.
MatVenture
When I try to see three dots, I have to move closer to my screen and that makes it blurry. How can I see three dots without blurriness?
Ok, my advice is, forget the dots. They will confuse your eyes, since you gotta look from them down to the image. Oh, and don't move near your screen, that's not necessary!
What you can try doing instead is finding two repeating spots in the image, preferably in the middle, and then try to align these two into one [the "looking through/beyond your screen" thing]. Once you manage to get them aligned, just stare at that one newly formed spot and the hidden image will slowly appear around your periphery.
I say really, just start with the picture at 5:06. Align the two center dinosaurs, keep your eyes there, and the whole image will lock into place. Then just do it over and over again until it becomes muscle memory, and you're good to go!
Hope it helps!
This video is 9 minutes long but I finished it 30 minutes later because I paused in each stereogram and now I want to die
haha you suck
Lmao right? My eyes hurt a bit now, but I made sure to check what every single one of them were. The book ones were a little harder, I had to tilt my head a bit LOL
sameee
Go into the woods and pray, just for fun.
i have a headache, and i could only see one the church. which got me excited cause that was amazing. but then i cant see the rest.
I have spent 27 years unable to do Magic Eye, and thanks to Vox and some wonderful CZcams commenters I can now see the hidden images!!! This feels life changing. Thanks, folks!
I picked up one of those Magic Books in a bookstore back in the 90s and started reading it. I was fascinated immediately and bought it. It took me a couple minutes and I could see everything. Now after 30 years I can see them in just a split second. I also learned how to do the crosseyed method. My wife has never been able to figure it out and she used to think I was pulling her leg with it. Then the school our son goes to had a science day and had magic eye type pictures. No one was able to get them, then I open the book, and I am like, “horse, truck, boat, cow, etc. the second each page was turned. My wife is laughing because she thought I was lying, but the teacher said, “he’s right, on all of them!”
Never could see these, still can’t now. I understand what you are asking me to do, but my eyes will not do it.
another good trick that worked for me as a kid was to put your face reeeally close (nose touching the screen) and sloooowly move backwards, away from the screen. if your eyes cross, start over. it should stay blurry, but not double. If you cross your eyes, the image will be backwards, like with the background popping out instead of the image.
One thing the video doesn't say is that you definitely need to come out of full-screen mode for some of these to work. When they fill the whole monitor, they're just too big for the illusion to work.
took me 30 mins first try 23 years ago, staring at the framed strereogram
@@Featherssketch OMG, That actually worked!!! I am so amazed rn, thank you very much for the trick
@@Featherssketch omg thanx bro ..it really worked
Am I the only one who doesn't see anything?
Assuming you have no problems with your eyes, it can take practice and patience to be able to teach yourself to divert your eyes easily. The way I taught myself when I was younger, was to get the image close to my face, look through it and then slowly pull it away until the trick pops out. It takes effort and focus to force your eyes to... well, not focus.
Now I can do most magic eye things in a few seconds. I surprised myself on a couple of them with how quick I got it!
I'll try
Lean closer to your monitor
Paula Diverging the eyes is the opposite of crossing them right?
I can't figure it out either. But I am short sighted.
I can't do any of these 😢
DBXD
Lmao, what?
Atheist Everyday fedoraist
Atheist Everyday
; )
I can.. I still have my original Magic Eye book.
me neither. watching this video was like listening to people speaking in a language don't know
One thing people forget to mention is, in addition to diverting your eyes you must also keep your eyes (head) parallel to the picture. If the pic is straight then turning your head to one side or the other (even slightly) will make this much harder. There were a couple in this video that were skewed to the right and I needed to turn my head to see the image
It's 1995 and I can't recognize anything. Thank you for making me feel inadequate again!
... I should probably get my eyes checked out.
👀
Yea same
Or your brain 👀
@@sometimelordything wow
Did it appear inverted?
I STILL CANT SEE IT ARHGHRHHGH
yes I did, you need to train your eyes for sometime... place two small objects like sand stones on your window...and look through your at object that kinda away until you see a double image of your sand stones...and then play around with the double image until you can the two middle sand stones come together to see three sand stones instead...try to focus on the middle stone...then try the images
AGHUGHHGGHHG!!
A way I learned how to diverge my sight was to put your face close to the image, like your nose onto the screen, then slowly back up until the image comes together and forms the hidden image
I never could :'(
results may vary
Don't tell me I'm seeing seven cakes when I'm only seeing six
Exactly. it was funny because I had actually just counted all of them right when she said that and was like what the f*** is she talking about. LOL
@@Pugetwitch LOL, trust me, there are 7 cakes, you just need more practice.
All this got me was the same headache and frustration I got 25 years ago when my mom was into these images XD
Annoyingly, despite understanding all this back in the 90's, and again watching this great video on how/why it works - none of these things have ever worked for me.
Yvaelle I don't think they work for anyone, apart from deluded fools who think a blue dress is white.
The dress WAS white and gold in the pic they showed everyone but then they started showing a black and blue dress as the "real one".
So it was two different dresses
I think the problem people have is they don't know what they're supposed to see. You will see a 3D shape appear in the pattern,that is all
I can't see anything there either
omg Joss Fong.. she's freakin' beautiful
SIMP!
@@cursedcliff7562 We know what you are, no need to tell us.
Ed Gar good one bro😐
She reminds me of Maggie Q
She hot hot
1:05 = church
4:34 = mouse/pig
4:35 = heart
4:41 = hand
4:45 = long neck dinosaur
4:48 = fish
6:26 = weird shape like electron revolves around the
nucleus in an elliptical path
7:04 = 3 fawns playing just right above the sun flowers
8:00 = whale/shark (obviously)
8:17 = a single flower
8:23 = front and side view of a bald man's head with slightly long neck
8:24 = goat
9:11 😉
Wow you did it GOOD JOB
Missed the ones in the beginning and in the ad.
0:07: Corrugations (cover)
0:07: Spirals
0:08: Forward-swept winged fighter jet
0:08: Flower
0:10: Waves from a water drop
0:19: Searching for "Seinfield Magic Eye" will produce one showing a space shuttle and satellite near a ringed planet.
0:58: Twisting tubes
1:00: Taj Mahal (Page to the left)
The ad in the end is generally difficult to make out due to the low resolution but there are a few identifiable ones:
8:40: Undersea setting with aquatic life and a treasure chest)
8:41: Starfish
8:41: Easter scene with bunnies and baskets (?)
8:42: Vase
8:43: Deer
8:44: Thanksgiving scene with a turkey wearing a pilgrim hat and pumpkins, in front of a fence.
8:45: If you look it up the Mallrats stereogram features four protruding bumps at the bottom and a series of manipulated shapes in a grid that include a plus sign, circle, diagonal square, star in protruding and recessed forms, and a circle with four pattern variations. It's funny how the movie claims it's a sailboat.
9:09: Winky face
This has to be a joke
jumbled garbage, even more jumbled garbage, and jumbled garbage 3: return of the jumbled garbage. I really wish I could see those hidden images. 😅
I know I'm just adding to the list of complaints, but I've always felt left out not being able to see them. Diverging my vision just gives me a headache.
Me to, but for me it's because I have a 'visual impairment'. (;3;)
I question why I am here I don't think I'm visually impaired. That's the weird part, and why I feel bad complaining. But I also want to know whether I'm alone in this :P
The easiest way I found to practice this is to let your eyes diverge when it feels like they should. Try looking at something very close to your face. So close that it's hard to keep it in focus, and something small so you can still see the background. Your eyes will "want" to diverge because of the difficulty of focusing on something so close.
Try putting your eyes close to the image, then pulling back your head. Works for me.
best way to diverge your eyes is to take a object and put it far from your face then follow it as you move it towards
Joss is the best explainer
Tungsten Wu
Joss is the best. Period.
And she's amazingly beautiful. A Joss video is always nice on the eyes, this one in particular.
We love you Joss
Tungsten Wu But she clearly just daydreams at her desk, randomly remembers something from her 90's childhood, and decides it's a valid journalistic topic. It's all very solipsistic and short-sighted (pardon the pun). I am starting to think these videos are just a glimpse into one person's quarter life crisis.
And that is how projection works.
I love this book, I would always look at my grandmother’s one when I went to her house. Thanks for the nostalgia Vox!
I see Joss i click ❤️
SIMP
1:05 Moscow Building
1:39 VW Beetle
1:40 Triangular prisms from above
4:33 A piggy
4:36 A heart
4:41 Open palm reaching towards you
4:45 A giraffe
4:48 A fishy
6:27 Weird interweaved shape
7:06 Deers playing in a beautiful garden that pops out
7:19 Some squares (hard)
7:24 Lots of cut out recangles overlapping
7:34 Tons of prisms coming at ya
7:35 Same
8:02 dunno lol
8:17 A flower
8:23 Two heads
8:24 A lion or some animal
8:43 A deer
8:44 A turkey with a hat on I dunno;
9:15 A winky face ;)
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8:02 is the shark. And 8:24 is a lamb.
damn you impressed her or an intern.
It took me 12 rewatch, 4 different tutorials and 20 minutes staring at the planes to finally gets.
I never worked so hard at anything. THIS WHAT YOU DID TO ME + Vox i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad16/vufrug984/context_00001_the_mask.jpg
whenever i think i have it my eyes just automatically focuses back on the image. i can't see anything
Michael Slenderman It's tough, but you just have to move slowly while training
Michael Slenderman keep practicing, it's hard to stop your eyes from auto focusing like that haha
keep practicing, it was like that for me too but once i got it you'll be able to do it again
Nawar Ahmed Practising WHAT? What are you supposed to be doing? I tried imagining looking at a distance but it just doesn't work at all.
pretend you are looking at your reflection.. or look at your reflection.. thats how i finally got it as a kid.. i saw a poster wrapped in some kinda clear wrap, and when i saw my reflection in the clear wrap, and then saw the picture, i understood how to move your eyes.. i can see them in seconds and havent done this in over 10yrs lol
I remember back in the 90s when I got this book.. took me a whole evening to try and see it.. then the skull popped out and i was like wooooah.. now it kills me when others cant see it.
Timothy Leary said; "I'm way ahead of you guys."
I wonder how somebody like Joss Fong feels after thousands of comments about how beautiful she is.
She probably feels creeped out
@@offbeattrance More need to point out your status as a verified music channel on YT
@@seanluo8369 What do you mean?
@@offbeattrance You're a verified musician on CZcams and that means you deserve to be more famous
I dont think I have these so called "eyes"
cause literally none of those worked on me
It's harder on a screen
The two dots at the top helps.
Just stare at them until they become three (diverge/cross eyes) and then look down at the picture.
You'll get it.
Same they don't work for me..
it worked for me . it was fuxking amaziiiiing
for me i focus on something far away and relax my eyes on that thing that's far away and slowly bringing the picture into view, remember you're trying to see through the picture, not look at the picture. you know how you get double vision when you look at something far away and the picture below gets divided into two, (like if you look through your fingers at something far away you see more than four fingers) you want to do that with the books and make the two images mesh together just right.
I couldn't see any of images on this video. What do you mean with "relax your eyes"? Do I need to drink some alcohol or smoke some weed to "diverge" my eyes?
put your finger in front of your face and look at it. then move it further away - feels more relaxed, right? Same idea, you let them diverge even more by pointing them at something in the distance, and as they relax you'll start to see double -joss
Oh, I got it, thanks!
Vox I saw what it said with your own stereo gram with the words. It said "Wow you did it, good job" 👏
Shadow Luke Spoiler alert!
I put my face up to the picture, then slowly pull back.
How the f*ck am I supposed to "relax" my eyes?
I hate when people say that.
FINALLY!!!! I CAN DO IT! The two dots becoming three was so helpful. Then looking down at the picture slowly, and some things will pop up. All I can say is: stare in the distance, count your breaths and be patient. THANK YOU!
They came out in the early 80's. I used to look at those images in the Sunday news paper as a child.
The magic of Joss Fong's eyes is still unexplained though
they look relatively normal though.
Aw that's cute
yeah this is why I'm in love with her. she needs to make a video explaining why she is so captivating
Yeah
@@pixiesolowing yeah man i feel the same .
All I could see is you !
I'm honestly in love
same!, i wish youtube had that "heart" reaction facebook has haha
Joss Fong has that effect. She's just absolutely stunning.
same lmao
Nestor yes she is 😍
Finally! 30 years later, I can finally see these images! Thank you Vox. I had no idea I was missing out on this.
Until today, with your instructions about how to use the guide dots, I have never been able to see the images. Thank you so much for making this video!
When I was a child, I would sometimes accidentally focus each eye separately on a a repeated image in a chain-link fence. This made these stereograms easier to see later, occasionally even doing a "double-deep" where you focus each eye on point's double-wide apart, making the image appear deeper, or in the case of "Magic Eye" (I own a first edition), scramble the image in some cases. Cool piece by Fong!
I couldn't see the images, but at least Joss is pretty easy on the eyes.
A tip that I found useful: *make sure you're in a well-lit room.* I tried viewing the pictures when it was dark and I couldn't do it, but I tried again today in the light and found it much easier.
This popped up on CZcams today. I was commenting to my wife how this was the best video on autostereogram I have ever watched, when the shark autostereogram I made when I rewrote the corresponding Wikipedia article came up. Even then I wasn't surprised. Later the credits came up. Kudos to the team for attention to the last detail. This is truly a master piece, not only in content, facts, and excellent explanation, you really put your 100% into it. Bravo.
_Joss... I wanna look into your eyes like they're a Stereogram..._ 😵
You do realize, this is how you're supposed to look at her, right? images.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/1287436713_top-10-lies-parents-tell-their-kids_7.jpg
Well, good luck, Price Charming.
I had to stop watching early because I was getting so pissed from having it not work that I was ready to throw my phone at the window
Lol the depth!!!
Zoe Kirk i know how u feel.
Hi Zoe, if you liked this please check my stereograms I have put a different description on how I can see them... thanks
You were about to defenestrate your phone
a really easy way for me was to put the picture up close, almost touching my nose, then cross your eyes as you slowly pull it back.
My boyfriend's grandpa had a stereoscope camera in the 50s, seeing the depth of those pictures make you feel like you are actually there in the moment so much it's mind-blowing! Wish they were still used!
Another interesting information: There are actually 2 ways of seeing those. I have always seen the 3D-pictures, but they went INTO the book. When I spoke with my fiance about this book, she told me that they were coming OUT OF the book. That confused the heck out of me. Apparently I have been doing it correctly, but also incorrectly??!?! Did someone have the same experience? (Btw, this book was also an immense hit in Germany!)
Not really incorrect, but most are made for divergent view, if you converge it will "pop-under" the page. There are some that are made for convergent view (and so they will pop-out) and if you diverge they will pop-under.
Yes!! I also see them going "into". I thought I might have something wrong with my vision? Sometimes I see the many "layers" in 3D going deep into the back of the page (if that makes sense?)
@@shingalani Makes total sense. Is nothing wrong with your vision, you are just not using the intended technique. Sometimes there are 2 versions of the same stereogram, one for convergent view and other for divergent view. I can use both relatively easy but divergent is now harder for me when the "amount of divergence" is great. I'm just getting old, i guess....
Pro tip: this is also a great trick to win any game of "find the 7 differences"... just look each image with one eye, and the differences will pop out...
FYI: this trick doesn't work if you haven't gotten your sharingan eyes yet, keep training
I can see the three dots, I can see the depth in the cake/plane wallpaper thing, but the actual pictures? nope. Nothing
I can change the picture completely with my rennigan
I only have the ability to blur my vision, my village is outdated and lame
I'd rather kms than get a sharingan or renningan
pause on the cake/plane wallpaper, hover your mouse over the part in the video that the other picture is. Then when you can see the depth in the cake/plane wallpaper click your mouse to switch over and it will help you see the other pictures :D
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE THESE! Thank you! I always wondered WTH all the fuss was about, but now I can see it...so simple, yet so cool.
"Our pupils are around 60mm apart"
OMG THEY USED METRIC INSTEAD OF BALD EAGLES PER FOOTBALL FIELD. VERY PROGRESSIVE. VERY GOOD.
@むく oh so that's the collective term. thank you
@むく =
As a person who has only had the full use of one eye since birth, this has been very interesting to see the mechanics of how this works. I've never experienced the images that others have, nor any effect from 3-D pictures or movies. My limited depth perception is built from other senses (as shown at 2:22). Quite interesting for sure - thanks, Joss.
Wow you did it. good job.
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Miguel Alberola Cano Don't worry, Vox said there's simply something wrong with you!
Miguel Alberola Cano Yeah, I too was lost in my naive delusion that I am able to appreciate the depth and beauty of the world....
Thanks to Vox I am now free from those shackles and know that my senses are defective and thus my understanding is severely lacking!
Yes, although who is St. Bayzil?
One of the few CZcams videos that makes me cry without fail.
I found I had to tilt my head to the right a little to get the guide dots (and the planes, dinos and cakes) to line up horizontally. The guides really made a huge difference; I haven't been able to see a stereoscopic image since the 90s, and then only with guide dots. I seem to recall the Magic Eye books don't have the guide dots, so I could never see the pictures.
Thank you for explaining how these work, especially with the 'wallpaper' type; knowing that each eye looks through its own image helped tremendously.
My vision is godly but I cant see any of this lol
Yea i can't see any of this either. My eyes hurt now
I find doing these on a computer screen is really painful. I could see all of them except the black and white ones for some reason. I guess it's because my eyes naturally go out of focus when looking at the coloured mess and aren't used to doing it with black and white images.
Tripplehelix ironically I only couldn't see the black and white one with the red dots
I think that's WHY we can't do it, tbh. I was once thrown out of an eye test my eyesight is so good, NOT focussing or trying to unfocus gives me a headache. Not worth it, imo. If I want to see a picture of a shark, I'll go look at a picture of a shark.
I have really bad eyesight and could see all of them. I think being able to see them might not be such a good thing. Just thank your eyes for not being able to see them. It does take significantly more effort to see them on the computer screen though.
I first noticed this effect as a child staring at a ceiling with a repeated pattern. I noticed sometimes that the pattern seemed to pop out of the ceiling. I was a scientifically minded child and quickly worked out what was happening. I didn't see one of these stereogram images until much later but my experience as a child meant I could immediately see the image. It's pretty cool.
Was trying to figure this out for the longest, the dots on top really helped me figure the technique out !
6:45
wow
you
did
it
good
job
Same
It is impossible to me to diverge my eyes, I really can't do it. Converge, though - that's easy
Frankey2310 hold your phone up to your face and focus on the wall behind it. boom diverging!
what are you doing here Shaun? =P
if your eyes couldn't diverge, you wouldn't be able to see things at a distance... it's not impossible, you just haven't figured out how to have conscious control of it
+VectorPlexus O HAI DER I am browsing suggested videos hurr
Converge is a great band.
8:47 Yeah that's about me
what movie is that
eemils X Mallrats.
And about me. Ethan Suplee truly is my spirit animal. #MyNameIsRandy
Came here for Joss, stayed on for the content!
Anything on Vox with Joss in it, is a win-win!
For me, the biggest help is to make it so you can easily "look through the image". This means having something reflective in front of the image. Something like a transparency sheet. Then, you can hold it up to the page or screen and look at an object reflected by it. The 3D image should easily appear.
3:16 - 3:26 - barely containing laughter / joy. For whatever reason, that made me happy. Thank you, Vox.
seriously same I smiled so hard at that part it was cute af.
Okay, Vox, here's a question for you: why, for me, do steroogams and Magic Eyes invert? As in, I can see them easy enough, but they poke INTO the image rather than bulge out. Why does this happen? AM I THE ONLY ONE THIS HAPPENS TO?
This might happen if you cross your eyes instead of diverge them.
omg same, i thought that is normal :D
Cool! I'm guessing this happens because the focus point is different so my brain IS perceiving depth when I do this, just the other way around.
This might happen if you're the glitch in the matrix, is your name neo?
Video Graham they drop into it. that's normal because when you diverge your eyes, the point they would be looking at is behind the image.
20+ years later I still can’t do this. This came out when I was in Elementary school, my whole class was able to see this and i still can’t. Thanks for reminding me
1:11 The image of the cathedral in this illusion is so clear that I can inspect its features from top to bottom. Good one!
I like the guilty pleasure of feeling mentally superior when my friend can't see it.
U doofus. That's not solving mental problems. Any problems. That's just being able to stare at something long enough & not breaking focus.
@@ahhwe-any7434 its a joke
Maybe discuss this further in therapy ...
It sounds like you're a bit of a loser.
Yeah I feel bad for my friends that can't see the genius and beauty "behind" the images.
how do you even make yourself see double vision by relaxing your eye? i've never experienced that
put your finger in front of your face, but look at something beyond it. you're seeing your finger in double right? that's what i mean.
Blimey! works with my finger, but trying to diverge my eyes on demand seems to need some practice first.
I'll try again tomorrow ^^
Practice with the cake and plane one, it's the easiest, and get in a dark place so there's no reflection
I tried it by doubling my vision and using the two dots, but that was painful and didn't work. Instead, I just tried to see "through" the image and it worked almost immediately. No cross eyes required.
The whole point of these is to diverge your eyes, so you are doing it correctly. Don't cross your eyes for these types if images.
Thank you very much!!
This video was highly educational.
It answered all my questions about stereograms.
Best regards from Chile.
This book was part of my childhood.
What a gift to get back that time!
20 something years later, still see nothing. They used to say to look at them close then slowly pull the image away. THERES NOTHING THERE! Host is cute though.
It's a schooner! :-)
If you want the not so awesome effect, you can view these crosseyed. They will just be reversed, so where an object would pop out you will see a hole or an indent.
Jadi Nicolas good thing no magic eyes are required to see her beauty.
Cross your eyes so the pattern lines up. That's all there is to it.
Stare at something in the distance, but not too far, like maybe your TV or computer. Then raise the image into your line of sight, but don't focus on it. That's how I trained myself to do it
Vox, how will you combat the decline of the bee population?
Wow you did it
Good job
Awesome video! I remember when they first came out: I was so frustrated because I couldn't see the pictures for MONTHS.
I hope Joss gets her own series. Would love to see a series produced by her concerning anything. Joss does a good job in presenting the info and investigating/researching.
she looks gorgeous
I looked at these so much as a kid that I still can do it within less than a second.
and even side by side 3D images are easy to do for me.
The first time I saw one of these was an (at the time) new fast-food restaurant in town. We went there on an almost weekly basis, so we got a lot of practice learning the trick (it was poster-size and framed, so using our own reflection as a cue helped a lot). The image was fairly busy, with an eagle flying back to its nest carrying a freshly caught fish.
did anyone else not get any of the illusions?
Meee, I can't seem to diverge my eyes...
Erulasse Aranel
Same. I also have trouble watching 3D movies at the theater since the 3D effect doesn't really pop out for me. Maybe it's because my right eye is very dominant and is used a lot more by my brain than the left one making them imbalanced.
yes I did, you need to train your eyes for sometime... place two small objects like sand stones on your window...and look through your at object that kinda away until you see a double image of your sand stones...and then play around with the double image until you can the two middle sand stones come together to see three sand stones instead...try to focus on the middle stone...then try the images
+Z In Chain, my left eye is more dominant and my right eye is more blurry
“Wow you did it, Good Job.” The whole hidden message in the paragraph.
I just saw your comment. You beat me to it by 2 years. But it only took me 3 seconds. I have to delete mine now
Thanks for the great video. This technique can be used in finding different spots between two images, as they start "blinking".
I just feel like that guy off the movie Mallrats. I can't do any of these. Seeing the photoshop thing was amazing for me.
The only thing i got from this is that Joss Fong is soo damn beautiful!!!!!
My dad was into these so we had several books about it including one really nice one that did a thorough exploration of the history of stereograms and besides the typical "magic eye" ones also had vintage stereo photographs and a number of Salvador Dali's stereo paintings (yes Dali was into 3D goggles)
I had that exact book you're holding! My whole family loved it.
SHE'S. SO. GORGEOUS😍😍😍😍
That... I can see
You don't have to see in double vision to notice that
juanm227 isn't she 😂
I hated them as a kid, could never made them work
I first learned of stereograms while learning to shoot skeet way back in grade 8. Helped a little aiming at a moving target with both eyes open!
Thanks to you, I finally understand that stuff that fascinates me for almost 20 years now. Also a big thanks for all the other great and informative videos you make!
She is cuuuute.
Thank you +Vox for confirming my eyes have auto-focus -__- can't see a thing smh
same, bro, same
Great video! I've always been curious about how these work and now I know! I've never had any trouble seeing these images but weirdly, watching this video on my TV I couldn't see any of them! Watching on my phone I could see them all.
Thanks for telling me the mechanism of the stereogram!!
The Vox journalist is so beautiful 😍
Only Joss is
I love when she explains things to me
This is the first time I'm actually able to see the hidden image!i think the letter example was the easiest, moving your head around just a little helps
Wow, impressively explained.
i think shes the most beautiful thing i have ever seen
Thing?
She is not a thing. But dude you said it right, she is really amazing. 😘
I've always found these easy, but I space out a lot and that funny focus/unfocus comes natural to me.
I was NEVER able to do this looking at the comics in the newspaper as a kid, but now just weeks before i turn 34 i’ve FINALLY been able to understand this concept!
Utterly fascinating, but I need to watch this a couple times, there’s a lot to absorb!👍
Wow, all these years I had been converging my eyes instead of diverging. It feels a lot harder to look past the image, but the 3d effect is way more impressive than looking in front of it.
It took me an 30 mins and I am extremely nauseous but at least I got to se some overlapping rectangles
It took me 2 seconds of _eye wiggle_ for some rectangles
Loved this! Joss Fong produces great pieces!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I've been doing something about these wrong my entire life and I can't figure out what it is. Every magic Eye picture appears inverted to me; Like, instead of seeing the cathedral, it was like seeing an impression of the cathedral punched into a flat sheet of paper. In the example with the planes, dinosaurs, and cakes, the planes seemed furthest away and the cakes seemed closest. Does this happen to anyone else?
yeah okay player the cakes are supposed to be closer than thr planes...
Yep i can do that too but it involves crossing my eyes and undressing them
You're crossing your eyes instead of diverting them.
if you're seeing them inverted you're crossing your eyes. you're supposed to relax them first so that everything goes unfocused, then slowly start refocusing them until the image lines up right. it's easiest to do if the image you're trying is very close to your face
well, yes, isn't this exactly what it's supposed ot be?