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Old 12-17-2016, 07:41 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Neil, if you do the ray tracing you will discover that stereo vision, and hence depth perception is unaffected by the placement of a mirror in the path. You still have 2 eyes that are separated by a finite distance and what they see in a mirror is still different for each eye. Sit in the car, look into the mirror and close each eye in turn. You will find that objects shift laterally because of the different viewing angles for each eye.

Not saying idea will not work, just putting forward the disadvantages that I see. Video "mirrors" have a lot of positives but they are not perfect.

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