Magic Eye

{{Short description|Book series with hidden 3D images}}

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Magic Eye is a series of books that feature autostereograms.

After creating its first images in 1991, creator Tom Baccei worked with Tenyo, a Japanese company that sells magic supplies. Tenyo published its first book in late 1991 titled Miru Miru Mega Yokunaru Magic Eye ("Your Eyesight Gets Better & Better in a Very Short Rate of Time: Magic Eye"), sending sales representatives out to street corners to demonstrate how to see the hidden image. Within a few weeks the first Japanese book became a best seller, as did the second, rushed out shortly after.{{cite web |first=John |last=Grossman |url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/19941001/3138_pagen_2.html |title=In the Eye of the Beholder, Marketing Methods Article |website=Inc. |date=1994-10-01 |access-date=2010-10-22}}[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836270096 Intro to Magic Eye II]

The first North American Magic Eye book was Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World.{{cite web |url=http://www.magiceye.com/about/about.html |title=About Magic eye |website=Magic Eye |access-date=2010-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214170655/http://magiceye.com/about/about.html}}{{failed verification|date=September 2019}}

Magic Eye stereograms have been used by orthoptists and vision therapists in the treatment of some binocular vision and accommodative disorders.{{cite web |url=http://www.vision3d.com/VTdocs.html |title=Magic Eye stereograms, vision therapy, visual training, eye exercises, eye training, Anaglyphs, stereo photography |website=Vision3d.com |publisher=Rachel Cooper |access-date=2010-05-18}}