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WheatstoneΓÇÖs contemporary,
Sir David Brewster, invented another method of achieving
stereoscopic vision of separate
pictures, this time using
lenses. BrewsterΓÇÖs stereoscope
is still in use today because it is
so compact and simple a device.
Half-lenses in front of the eyes
serve to collimate the incoming
light (i.e., to render the rays
parallel as if they were coming
from a great distance). Thus,
accommodation relaxes, and
the directions of gaze of the two
eyes can be parallel as if they
are viewing a very distant
object. Each eye can then view
its own picture by looking
straight ahead.