A household pocket-mirror may be used in conjunction with the Mirror-View format in a simple stereo viewing method.  For example, a small glass mirror in a cosmetic case works well.  A plan view of the procedure is shown in the above figure.  Because the left image is viewed off the mirror, it is horizontally flipped on the screen in order to be seen in proper orientation.

Using a Cosmetic Mirror as a Viewer

1.  Hold the mirror edge up near to your left eye just to the left of your nose.

2.  Position the glass roughly perpendicular to the center of the black bar separating the stereo pair on the screen.  Your head should be centered and about one screen width back from the monitor.

3.  Look towards the right image with both eyes and adjust the mirror tilt until the left image overlaps the right.  The correct position will become obvious as the 3D effect locks in.

You can put your left hand up over the left side of your left eye to block out the left image ghost and isolate the 3D pair.  The method, in use, is illustrated below.  It works surprisingly well.  

In the 3D-Viewer Control Box:  Choose Mirror-View and size the image to fit all the way across your screen so that the black bar is as big as possible.  The larger the monitor the better.  Default has the mirrored image ON THE LEFT (as in the figures above).  If you want to have the mirrored image on the right, select ORIENTATION = SWAP L/R in the Control Box. 

A Stereo Pair with the Left Image Flipped.  Black Center Zone Facilitates MirrorView

This simple technique can be expanded to yield a very high-quality artifact-free ghost-less full-frame viewing method:  The dual monitor stereo display.  The principle is the same, but the image is stretched across two monitors that can be set at an angle in a configuration that  eliminates ghosts and overlaps.  To utilize the two-monitor version with this website, set up both monitors to 1024 x 768, use Mirror-L200, and size the pair to span the two screens.

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