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{{Short description|Book series with hidden 3D images}}
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[[File:MagicEyeCover.gif|thumb|Cover of the first book]]
'''''Magic Eye''''' is a series of books that feature [[autostereogram]]s.

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836270096 Intro to Magic Eye II]</ref>

The first North American ''Magic Eye'' book was ''Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://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}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=September 2019}}

''Magic Eye'' stereograms have been used by [[orthoptics|orthoptists]] and [[vision therapy|vision therapists]] in the treatment of some [[binocular vision]] and [[accommodation reflex|accommodative]] disorders.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{official website|1=https://www.magiceye.com}}
* [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5371627 US Patent 5,371,627]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}; Random dot stereogram and method for making the same

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