The present invention provides a video observation apparatus for observing video displayed on the display unit of an information processing terminal, comprising: a bottom portion on which the terminal is placed a back sheet having a mirror portion on an inner surface of the back sheet opposing the terminal and arranged toward an observer to make an acute angle between the bottom portion and the back sheet a top sheet arranged parallel to the bottom portion and a front sheet having a lens portion positioned corresponding to the right and left eyes of the observer wherein a height of the top sheet is offset downward from a height of the top of the apparatus formed by the back sheet and wherein the apparatus is held by placing a thumb on the bottom portion, an index finger and/or a middle finger on the top sheet and the remaining fingers on the back sheet.