By Paul Linton, Columbia University
VR Demo suitable for:
- PC VR - Tested on Varjo XR4
- Oculus Quest 3 using Meta Quest Link
Must be run on Windows.
Run "Linton Scale Illusion.exe"
You will see the following scene:
Every three seconds the scene will alternate between two ways of rendering the scene:
1. Helmholtz (Miniature): Vergence, vertical disparities, and horizontal disparities set to near viewing. Resulting scene seen as miniature, as noted by Helmholtz (1857):
“...as if the observer were looking not at the natural landscape itself, but at a very exquisite and exact model of it, reduced in scale.”
2. Linton (Normal): Vergence and vertical disparities set to near viewing, but horizontal disparities set to normal viewing distance. Scene now looks normal size, not miniature.
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