Smitten with our little plastic View-Masters as kids, few of us baby boomers knew that our forebears amused themselves with their own three-dimensional gizmos. Before television, before radio, there ...

A man with a crown of curly white hair lifts his eyes from a peculiar-looking device. “This is the Victorian sensation. This is a stereoscope. I look in here, and I see a heartbroken lady, waiting ...

Long before virtual-reality headsets, people were off virtually exploring the world from the comforts of their own homes. From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, people used stereoscopes ...

If you walked into Charles Herzog’s classroom last spring, you’d have seen a peculiarly modern sight: middle schoolers all staring into virtual-reality gear. Their bodies, officially, were at Flood ...

When I was young, our local library had a handheld stereoscope for viewing photos in 3-D. The library had a collection of photos of exotic places and tourist attractions to look at through the ...

Stereoscopes : the first one hundred years / Paul Wing Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...