Create a high-tech 3D ViewMaster, you child of the 80s

Remember those ViewMaster slideshow viewers from the late 1970s and early 1980s? Before there were postage stamp-sized LDC screens on every cellphone (which didn't exist in the early 80s), many a kid took their minds away from the daily playground grind by putting up a dual-eyecup ViewMaster to those eyes and going on a colorful but short storytelling journey.

Well, the ViewMaster has unofficially evolved using some 128x160 color LCD screens and some 3D trickery used to simulate the distance between the onlooking eyes. If you think those small screens will be eyesores once you put the doctored ViewMaster up to your eyes, that's not the case. From what the below video shows, it looks like a miniature movie theater screen more than anything, but without the huge cost from a commercially created computer monitor, for example.

Just like those of us who love NES Emulators, this creation will strike a good amount of sweet nostalgia for those in the thirty-something age bracket or older. For the rest of us, umm, please wear this thing in private should you choose to build it.

[via Engadget]

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