eli5: How does depth perception work?

Question

I don’t naturally have it so visual explains don’t make sense to me

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Answer 1

Basically depth perception is your brain taking images from both eyes and bringing them together called “converging”. The depth of the object you look at is determined by small cues in each eye. For example if you put a pencil right in front of your face and moved it from side to side, you’d see it go out of vision from one eye and in vision of the other. Indicating it’s only a few inches from your face thus giving you depth perception.