binocular vision
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Vision that incorporates images from two eyes simultaneously. The slight differences between the two images—seen from slightly different positions—make it possible to perceive distances between objects in what is known as depth perception.
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Also called stereoscopic vision
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The chances of it being completely corrected would have been much higher if her condition had been caught earlier, said Connolly, chief of pediatric and binocular vision service at Indiana University’s School of Optometry.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2022
Its eyes protrude from either side of its skull so, unlike most modern predators, this dinosaur did not have binocular vision.
From Nature ● Mar. 10, 2020
Watching college football can seem to require binocular vision, overlapping fields of view that create the spectacle of depth.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2020
Depth perception is often confused with binocular vision, also known as Stereopsis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
There may be some convergent evolution because there may be only one best solution to a certain environmental problem— something like two eyes, for example, for binocular vision at optical frequencies.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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