I used to be obsessed with this thing back when I was a little kid, probably 6 or 7.

Felt like my own little super power.

Some of the magic eyes make me think of VR lenses, now I’m wondering if it’s even possible to refocus your eyes through the headset!!

I love these images. How do I go about creating something that works like this??

Has anyone watched X-MEN ‘97 Season 1, Episode 1? I was watching tonight and noticed two very brief “static” screens during a video call between two characters in the show. I paused it on the first one and it definitely looked like a stereogram, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. Have any of you figured out what it might be? To me it looked like it was several curved shapes - kind of like waves - that were 5 or 6 levels deep.

It's not great, but if you're quick seeing stereograms, it's a funny clip (I think)..

YouTube Short Stereogram "Movie"

I used to be really good at these, I can’t even do the simple ones any more🤬

Hello. I’m new to the community so if this post isn’t allowed I’m sorry.

I have just recently found out about these sort of images and was instantly fascinated by them. They sound super cool. I haven’t seen one yet of course.

I was following the pinned post’s guide on how to view them and have been trying the methods listed on there. The common example I have seen in multiple places is the planes dinosaurs and cake pattern. In every example, they say you should see 7 of each image if you are doing it right, with the outer 2 images being the sort of shadowy single-eye images.

I think I understand what to do with my eyes to get that sort of effect, but it’s like my eyes can only go either fully focused or fully unfocused. I either see 6 of each image, or I see two copies of the entire image. There is a transition period where the images diverge, but I can’t really see anything during this time.

I have been trying to train my eyes to only slightly unfocus, but I end up just in a cycle of my eyes being focused and unfocused, where the ghostly images are just spreading apart quickly and reforming into one faster than I can see any sort of image.

Is there anybody on this sub that had this sort of issue when you were first starting out? I really want to be able to see what all these posts are about, but I can’t seem to get locked into the correct amount of lack of focus.

Any help would be appreciated!

I've been wondering for many years if the parallel method helps with protecting one's eye sight(or at least helps with preventing the short-sightedness). Is there a general consensus on it?

How old were you when you learned to do the magic-eye thingy*? Which method do you use, cross, parallel, or mixed? Do you think you benefit from it, eye-sight-wise?

Also a plus question: What are your eye protecting/relaxing routine? Were you taught any exercise methods in school(or any elsewhere)?

edit: *autostereograms

update: whoa a lot of comments! Thank you! It's really interesting to read through it :D

Hello, to make stereoscopic images with depht maps I use the Leiapix page. But today I see that the page made changes. Now they add some watermarks to the depth map...

Does anyone know of a similar online alternative?

Not something similar but another cool thing that you can learn that other people would be confused/amazed by?

Sorry if this is against any rules. I want to include an autostereogram in a youtube video but I want it custom made and perhaps animated (I've seen a few in this sub). I don't know anything about creating one myself and I'd rather have someone else create it properly. Any recommendations?

Edit: sad that there are no takers. In case it wasn't clear, I'm willing to pay for this 😄