Stereoscopic 3D photo make with DSLR for Oculus

You can also balance your weight on your left foot for one shot, and on your right foot for the other shot (shifting the camera position sideways about equal to your IPD). There are apps to auto-align the photos to make an S3D photo, and to convert between various S3D photo formats.

This only works well for static images. For moving images, it is best to use two cameras with synchronized shutters.

There are also apps to stitch S3D photo pairs taken at many angles into an S3D-360 stereoscopic spherical image, which can be viewed in an HMD such as Oculus Rift or GearVR. For using inside VR apps, I like to convert my images into left and right-eye skyboxes.

With enough cameras, you can film video in S3D-360, which can also be viewed in VR (I decode "S3D-360 skybox video" into a framebuffer which overlaps my skybox structures). Because the pixels are spread so thin (except when using 4K h.265 video), I overlay this with interesting detailed foreground features.

There are lens attachments you can buy.

http://www.3dstereo.com/viewmaster/3dyc.html

Not sure if any of these will work for your camera, but it's a good place to start looking.

For viewing on a HMD you should shoot panoramas.

Shooting stereo panoramas is a big challenge over shooting mono panoramas.

There are basically three ways to shoot stereo panoramas. Paul discusses them here.
http://paulbourke.net/stereographics/stereopanoramic/


1 Use a pair of cameras mounted in portrait with 180° fisheye lens, where you might take 4 images around to capture full sphere you would take about 40, reason being is the camera is no longer on the No-Parallax-Point (NPP) of the mount and you want to minimize the stitching errors caused by parallax. If there are moving subjects in the pano then using pairs of cameras is important.

2 Use one camera shoot a one pano them move the camera off the NPP and shoot another. The problem with this method is there can be movement between when the first pano was shot and taking the second pano. These discrepancies look really bad when viewed.

3 Use one camera with a 180° fisheye with camera in front of the NPP. Take about 40 around. With masks use a strip of left side of every image to make the right pano, and the right side of every image to make the left pano. This does not solve the problem of capturing moving subjects because the same area captured in L & R will be several shots apart.

Stereo panoramas have the problem that if there is depth data in the zenith or nadir of the image as you look up or down it will look correct until you look past the zenith or nadir then the stereo will be in reverse. To get around this problem avoid capturing in an area with depth above or below the camera. Use the same single image for left and right for both zenith and nadir.

For this example shown in Anaglyph, you need Red/Cyan glasses to view, I shot a my standard pano with 6 around +Z +N, Then I moved the camera off the NPP and took the horizontal row again by at 3X as many at 18 around. I used the same Z & N in both panos. I also had to duplicate the smoke in the distance so they were the same in L & R.
http://photocreations.ca/home2/Spruce_A ... html#node3

Immersion increasing by viewing panos in a HMD. The immersion increases again when viewing stereo panoramas. HMD versions of this pano available soon.

With Gopros modded with 180 fisheye lenses you can shoot stereo 360 still panoramas very quickly with a rotating rig like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFSeAdb9Kvs

There is a Google + group for people interested in making stereo 360 still panoramas to view on Android cardboard type viewers
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities ... 2409327827

See also
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=19463

According to Canon EOS 600D Manual following settings may give 3d effect to your image:

• enabling live mode
• enable Ghost Image
  
• use a small script simply called anaglyph.py. Write it in Python using the Python Imaging Library (PIL). The script is open source and available directly from github or as a zip file download.Using this script you can generate a few different types of 3D images,