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Close one eye. Move your head slightly sideways. The difference in speed of each element on the "scene" tells you how far away those objects are. Your mind makes note of all this and prepares a mental map of your surrounding area. That way you know, however roughly, where the exit door is.

This is what this system does, by using the movement of the camera to interpolate a 3D map of the area around the path taken, as well as the original images that best adjust to the part of the 3D map being seen.




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