Thats pretty much the idea behind eye-tracking: giving the illusion of depth by moving the image according to your POV. Its way better than what passes as 3D in movies...
There's an app for the iphone which can produce the same type of images. Basically all it does is takes the same picture from slightly different angles. The greater the angle the more 3D you get until it just looks stupid. Yaiumo
Every time I watch something that's dubbed 3d I can't help but feel cheated by my eyes, I seem to lack stereoscopic vision
That's weird. Why do you think that is? You don't see too many cyclopses around these days. I'm guessing they must lack some structure in the brain that's responsible for sensing depth based on the difference between the two eyes. If that's the case then I guess they just see each eye as a separate image? I can't imagine what that would be like.
Plenty of theories and reasons, give a search on Google for some idea. Could have to do with eye strengths, strain, and all sorts of other things.
Apparently stereoscopic vision develops sometime in one's infancy, around the age of 4 or something? Bad news is that I wore glasses since I was 3.5..I had reached 6.5 degrees on each eye before I had corrective surgery. I had this as a child and might still have it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabismus That said, I have much better peripheral vision than most people I ve discussed with and use triangulation methods to judge distance successfully. This has helped me in and I ve been helped a lot by racing games such as F-zero X, where you're forced to judge distances accurately and quickly in order to progress properly. edit: according to this test http://www.vision3d.com/frame.html I have "proper" working eyes in coord..My only guess is that it's something my brain never learned how to make use of since I ve always used a different way to judge distance.
