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by jhallenworld 1218 days ago
You need to use the Wii remote in reverse so you can make a fake window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

(can't believe this was 15 years ago now..)

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I remember him, Johnny Lee. I actually bought his Poor man's stabilizer ~15 years ago because I couldn't afford to buy Steadicam. EDIT: He also worked as dev for XBox Kinect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Lee_(computer_scientist...

XBox Kinect had so much potential but sadly smart phones appeared to eat up the entire market. Even ARKit hasn't really done much. VR just doesn't seem to be much of a market except for things like VRChat.
This is brilliant!

Why haven't we seen this idea developed further into consumer devices by now

Amazon's failed Android phone infamously had this feature. There was a front facing IR camera IIRC which tracked your face/gaze and made the environment change as you looked into it. https://venturebeat.com/games/how-3d-works-on-the-amazon-fir...
Without any accompanying pair of glasses the parallax effect is only convincing for a single viewer.
How often do you really have more than one viewer per screen?
Fake Windows can be made with OpenCV face tracking and webcam as well!