BETA
Chapter 1
Flattening the third dimension
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Chapter 2
Painting with virtual light
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Chapter 3
Tricking the brain with depth
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Chapter 4
The brain's clever shortcuts
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Seeing 3D in video games
Ch 3 · Tricking the brain with depth
diegoplays 3D Game Depth Illusion
Just divide by Z to pull you in, that's where the virtual worlds begin.
diegoplays Virtual reality headsets display two distinct offset images to recreate natural depth perception.
diegoplays Changing the camera's field of view alters how fast the virtual world seems to move.
Fun Fact
VR depth trick: VR headsets show two images offset by 64 millimeters, matching the spacing of your eyes to fake physical depth.
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Which depth cue is active when a closer object blocks your view of an object further away?
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What term describes the visual phenomenon where background objects appear to move slower than foreground objects?
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Why do game designers often use a narrow Field of View (FOV) in sniper rifle scopes?
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What is the average human pupillary distance that VR headsets use to offset their dual images?
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How does widening the virtual camera's Field of View (FOV) change how a player perceives game speed?
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In virtual reality, what is the term for the brain's integration of two slightly different eye images into one 3D view?
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Which 1982 arcade game popularized parallax scrolling by moving background layers at different speeds?
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What type of digital filter is commonly used in post-processing to create a depth of field blur?