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I'm watching YouTube videos in glorious stereoscopic 3D on my Steam Frame with just a free plugin and a long-forgotten dream of a new Nintendo 3DS

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I'm watching YouTube videos in glorious stereoscopic 3D on my Steam Frame with just a free plugin and a long-forgotten dream of a new Nintendo 3DS

Remember the 3D craze? The Nintendo 3DS, 3D TV, 3D cinema; it was a new, exciting technology that some expected would go mainstream one day. Then the dream just sorta died. People don't talk about it much these days; except for this wonderful project that takes normal videos and turns them, alchemy-like, into slightly more 3D-looking videos using the Steam Frame.

It's called framedepth, and it's made by a user going by guix8 on GitHub. It's a plugin for Chrome that adds a stereoscopic 3D effect to any video when viewed via the browser on the Steam Frame.

It's surprisingly fun. I've been watching live gigs and eating challenges on YouTube and the stereoscopic effect is automatically applied once enabled via the extension. It definitely adds some extra level of immersion to it. Not much, but some. I wouldn't go as far to say I felt like I was there in the crowd for either spectacle, and maybe I wouldn't want to be in the firing line of a food challenge, but it's better than I thought it would be. An ever-so-slightly more engaging way to watch YouTube in VR.

The installation process is a bit more involved than your average Chrome plugin, requiring the Steam Frame to be in developer mode. Chrome).



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