Call me old fashioned, but I still the most excited by stereo photography and what seems this vastly unexplored world of Victorian Visual Reality. I share this new-born passion with Denis Pellerin, who has been researching the medium for over thirty years and who had the good fortune to meet and work with Dr Brian May, before being hired as curator of his extensive collection of over 100,000 stereo photographs.
I am obviously not the first to get excited by the empathetic potential of this beautifully old technology. Clive Thompson's article on the shocking power of virtual reality 150 years ago, is just the beginning of my latest obsession...