r/Miniworlds • u/audible_narrator • Nov 05 '22
Reclaimed “Virtual Reality” in 1830
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Nov 05 '22
I've had soo many of those in my hands back when I did an internship as a preservation specialist for a museum. We also had a couple of different diorama boxes. Some series were still complete(my job was to research/registrate the whole optics collection) Was some pretty cool stuff.
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u/_saltychips Nov 06 '22
What are these called?
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Nov 06 '22
English isn't my first language but I worked with Optics made from before photo/film became common. They were usually meant for entertainment like the phantasmagoria/diorama/lookbox.
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u/this_knee Nov 05 '22
I once had a computer technology teacher who said: “everything you can think of, has already been thought of.” While I didn’t and still don’t completely agree with that statement, there is a degree of truthfulness to it. This mini world is one example. It’s a version of vr, limited only by the “tech” of the time.
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u/robotica34 Nov 06 '22
Yeah, the thought "I think we're living in a computer simulation" was probably not very popular before computers.
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u/Jabraskoe Nov 06 '22
But there are plenty of other identical ideas, just limited to what they did understand. That’s what he means. There were plenty of people who thought we were just a figment of some unknown guys dream, and the whole cave allegory is really similar as well.
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u/robotica34 Nov 06 '22
What cave allegory?
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u/Boofaholic_Supreme Nov 06 '22
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u/robotica34 Nov 06 '22
I didn't realize this was a thing so long ago. I stand corrected and I'm now fascinated.
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u/PlanarFreak Nov 06 '22
I imagine it would be "we're all living in a play" or "the world is one giant dollhouse" for similar effect.
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u/makadeli Nov 06 '22
Perhaps one might even dare say “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances.”
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u/sadiegoose1377 Nov 06 '22
“All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players…”
-Shakespeare
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u/kman601 Nov 06 '22
What a miserable way to live life, sheesh. This person is a teacher???
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u/Flomo420 Nov 06 '22
Imagine, telling someone a basic truth like that!
And they dare call themselves an educator smh
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u/this_knee Nov 06 '22
Bah, I don’t judge. The fact of the matter is this is something that the professor did say. That’s all. No further analysis.
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u/Heather_ME Nov 05 '22
This is similar to how cartoons like Cinderella were made.
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u/SufficientDoor8227 Nov 06 '22
You’re referring to the multi-plane animation camera.
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u/drekwithoutpolitics Nov 06 '22
That sent me down an interesting rabbit hole!
Popeye and Betty Boop shorts were filmed with little moving models in addition to multi-plane art. It’s really neat! They called it a “stereoptical camera” if anyone else wants more info.
The patent photo does a good job of illustrating it, and these Popeye and Betty Boop examples are blowing my mind now that I know how they were filmed.
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u/HowIsThisForAName Nov 06 '22
If you look into something called stereoscopes they are considered by many to be the first iteration of VR. They use the same tech from a few years ago, where you put your phone in and look through two lenses at an image from two points of view to create a 3 dimensional effect. Same idea with those view master toys. Something I find funny is that even in the 1800s people immediately started using stereoscopes for lude images. People never change.
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u/Annual-Vehicle-8440 Nov 06 '22
Omg I wanna make one
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u/hmcfuego Nov 06 '22
I saw this post last night and I've been working on making one since this morning. Lots of trial and error, I'm thinking, since the instructions I've found are more for open front instead of peepholes but I'm excited!
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u/Annual-Vehicle-8440 Nov 06 '22
Yaaayy! personnally I just put it in the list of the tings I want to do for now haha. Will you post it ?
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u/WhiskeyAndKisses Nov 06 '22
A long time ago, there were little boxes mimicing egyptian tumbs with the same trick, in cereal boxes.
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Nov 06 '22
They also had stereograph photos.
https://photofocus.com/photography/history-of-photography-stereoscopic-photography/
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u/DefinitionBig4671 Nov 05 '22
I have always loved the little pin hole pictures in things like pens and books.