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Add a stereo viewer to the Wikipedia apps

Wikimedia Commons has lots of stereo images. Stereo view adapters for smartphones and tablets are becoming widely available. Adding the ability to display stereo pairs on device screens in a format suitable for stereo viewing would be fairly simple and would make our collection far more usable.

idea creator• ArnoldReinhold

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created on16:03, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

We have many stereo images in Commons; see Commons:Category:Stereo images. Many are in old collections going back to the nineteenth century, others are modern. Some people can "free fuse" them to enjoy the 3-D effect with no extra equipment, but for most the only option I am aware of is to print the images out and put them a stereo viewer.

What is your solution?

Google Cardboard stereo viewer for smart phones

Stereo view adapters for smartphones and tablets are becoming widely available, sometimes simply made of cardboard. I would like to see a option in the Wikipedia apps (or if necessary a new standalone app) that would display a stereo image in a way that is compatible with those adapters. Ideally it should have options for viewing both a single commons file with two images and a pair of commons files that constitute a stereo view. Perhaps an adjustment slider might be provided to get spacing and alignment right. The software showed be able to navigate through a sequence of slides, perhaps from a Commons page or a list as well and also from a Commons category..

Goals

Make the Wikimedia Commons stereo collection more usable and as a side effect encourage better curation of existing images and the creation of new stereo images for Commons.

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About the idea creator

I am a long time editor of Wikipedia and contributor to Commons.

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