Definition of depth perception
: the ability to judge the distance of objects and the spatial relationship of objects at different distances
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Unfortunately, the difference in depth perception for the players can make for difficult shooting.
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The digital experience that the Go offers still surrounds you in a 360-degree virtual world full of apps that often play with depth perception and camera movement to create such illusions.
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Combining images taken about six months apart (meaning they were shot from opposite sides of our planet's orbit) can give the distances to these stars in much the same way that having two eyes gives you depth perception.
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Such is the problem with depth perception on a 2D screen.
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For a more theatrical effect, go for this play on depth perception.
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The simpler, less intensive mantis-vision could be used to give depth perception to very tiny robots without using up a lot of processing power.
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Because human vision seems to try to correlate the image contrast from each eye's viewpoint, flipping the contrast in one of them inevitably thwarts human depth perception, Read said.
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Because human vision seems to try to correlate the image contrast from each eye's viewpoint, flipping the contrast in one of them inevitably thwarts human depth perception, Read said.
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First Known Use of depth perception
circa 1911
DEPTH PERCEPTION Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of depth perception for English Language Learners
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: the ability to see how far away something is or how much space is between things
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depth perception
medical Definition of depth perception
: the ability to judge the distance of objects and the spatial relationship of objects at different distances
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