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The little plastic binoculars View-Master 3D images are no longer available.
Production is abandoned and all lovers of stereo images grieve.
But now is the era ended. The company Fisher-Price, which manufactured and sold View-Master since 1997 has put into production, writes AP.  - View-Master is not what kids want in the car's rear seat. They want to watch DVD movies played on the back of the father's seat, "said toy industry analyst Sean McGowan of AP. View-Master was introduced at the World Expo 1939 in New York and was made of brown bakelite until 1962 when the first plastic version appeared. From the outset, picture discs, an alternative to postcards and showed like beautiful view photos and famous places around the world. It was primarily an adult product, but from the 1950s onwards were found most often in lekrummet where the children could enjoy big stereo images from popular movies and cartoons.  But the View-Master has also had a more serious approach. In the 1940s, considered the U.S. military to 3D viewer had a great potential for training and bought the 100 000 viewers and six million picture discs, according to Wikipedia. Together with View-Master inventor William Gruber produced anatomy expert David Bassett also an atlas of the human body based on View-Master, writes New York Times. Since its introduction in 1939 it is estimated to have sold about 1.5 billion picture discs to the little image viewer. |
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