Queen’s Brian May Created A 3D Viewer For Your Smartphone

I remember when I was a kid my great aunt had an antique stereoscope with pictures and it was fascinating. So how tickled was I to see one of my rock heroes Brian May with the same delight an developed passion for what I now know is called "stereoscopy" .

A lifelong stereoscopy enthusiast and collector, Brian May just this month launched the OWL VR Smartphone Kit, a Virtual Reality and 3-D stereo image viewer that brings all the excitement of VR within reach of anyone with a smartphone.

Kudos to Brian for not only creating a new viewer and cards of many wonderful things including band photos.  But with this new innovation you can to take snaps of fluffy at the lake and turn them into 3D masterpieces using your Smartphone. Snap, that's brilliant. According to their webpage they should be available for purchase in June. You can even pre-order here.

Queen's webpage goes on to say:

Brian’s London Stereoscopic Company LondonStereo has been supplying his unique original patent OWL Stereo Viewer to 3-D enthusiasts since 2009, enabling a whole new audience to view the company’s reproductions of classic Victorian stereo cards, as well as the originals, plus recently released astronomy and Queen-focused 3-D images.  The OWL has been recognized and adopted by 3-D organizations world-wide, as a high quality immersive device.

The new OWL VR Smartphone Kit takes the existing OWL Stereo Viewer and, through use of a simple but ingenious adaptor, enables its use with a smartphone not only to view online 3-D images, but also those taken by the user, and commercially available virtual reality content. Manufactured from high-grade polypropylene, and fully collapsible to a thin flat configuration, the OWL is supplied ready for use in seconds. Its carefully positioned high-quality optical lenses, plus fully adjustable focus, present every user with the ideal optical geometry for perfect viewing of side-by-side 3-D images.