A Worldwide Phenomenon

Baccei and the rest of the team combined efforts with the publisher Mark Gregorek and printed the first editions of the ever-popular Magic Eye books. They became overnight bestsellers, and the first edition of 30,000 was sold-out almost instantly. Within 24 hours of the release of the first American copies of Magic Eye, publishers were asking for a new run of 500,000 books!

To put it in terms we all understand, Magic Eye was going viral, and in a big way! The books were gathering interest from huge companies such as Disney and Looney Tunes, and autostereogram fans couldn’t get enough of the “drug-like” sensation of solving the Magic Eye pictures.