Hey guys thanks for the replies!
On the point about stereoscopic vision, the solution isn't actually too bad : I have a newer Samsung 3D LED TV, and it supports not only the type 3D you'd get natively from a bluray, but plays 3D mp4s and mpgs that are formatted in side-by-side mode. So to view my camera feed stereographically, I'd only need to access the current image of both cameras and then present them to the display in this manner :
Then press the [3D] button on my remote and tell it the input is side-by-side. At that point the TV hardware does its magic and I can put my glasses on. At worst I'd have to write a Windows app that pulls the images down continuously, scales them 50% on the X, and displays them. I anticipate timing issues between cameras and a bit of a headache with motion haha but for a relatively static scene I think it will look pretty cool. Now on the other hand maybe someone makes a prebuilt 3D stereographic camera that supplies side-by-side natively? I'll be looking into that.
As far as the carrying a wireless router around, yes that would work. I'll commit to ordering something tonight and see how it goes. Worst case scenario I'll have a couple of security cams for my dad. 