WEBVTT - How 3-D Glasses Work 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.840 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:14.440 tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hi, everybody, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.360 welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Pullette. I'm 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.599 an editor here at How Stuff Works. Sitting next to 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.680 me in all three dimensions as usual as senior writer 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.320 Jonathan Strickland. I'd like to point out, it's actually four dimensions. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.680 The dimension of time is also in play. Oh, I 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.720 was just thinking, you know, height was just not in there. Oh, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.599 burn not like I'm taller than it's about to say. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.080 I think I'm actually a little taller than you are. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.800 So moving right into our topic today. We we touched 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.600 on this on a recent podcast when we talked about 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.919 c E S and then we realize that, you know, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.600 three D technology. It's something that has been around for 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.840 for many decades actually, but it's starting to come back now. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.880 It's like it seems weird. It's like every like the 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.360 nineteen fifties it got really big for a little while 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.680 and then it kind of died away. And then in 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.680 nineteen eighties it got big for a little while, and 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.120 then it kind of died away. And this looks like 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.679 it's another one of those, um those moments sort of 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.520 like the Yo Yo where it just comes back in 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:18.080 vogue and who knows, maybe this time it's here to stay. Well. Um, yeah. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.240 We we have an article on the site how three 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.640 D glasses worked that was written by our site founder 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.959 Marshall Brain and it's it's really fascinating. The according the article, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.640 the Power of Love was the first movie to be 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.039 done in three D and that was it's a curious thing. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.920 Thank you, thanks for the news. So, you know, we're 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.720 coming up on a century of three D you know, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.720 video technology, which is uh, you kind of think about it. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.880 I always thought of it as a fifties and sixties 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.040 singer and it's been around for quite some time. And 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:52.720 you sit there and you think about that, like, okay, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.440 so if it's almost a century old, why is it 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.200 still relatively rare? Um As it's a pain in the 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.320 neck to actually make it work, right, and I'm bring 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.560 on the eyes as well as it turns out. Yeah, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.800 that's one of the problems is that it's there's no 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.640 for longest time, there was no real easy way of 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.760 doing this that didn't result in after you know, maybe 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.640 watching something for about forty minutes feeling like your eyeballs 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.960 were on fire. Um, it's a little better now, but 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.120 we'll we'll we'll get to that. First. We should kind 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.480 of talk about why we're able to perceive why or 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.480 why three D is important, and how we're able to 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.800 perceive it. It all goes down too, comes down to 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.639 binocular vision. You know, I have a pair of binoculars 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.280 and it doesn't look like I'm looking in three D. Right, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.080 that doesn't know what it means. So we're talking about 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.240 using both eyes to see objects and then perceive depth 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.239 using both of your eyes, there's this, Um, what's It's 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.040 what's called parallax. It's where you're looking at objects and 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.359 because your eyes are not located in the exact same 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.040 spot on your head, go figure, Um, you can actually 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.799 your brain uses the difference in the angles that you're 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.840 perceiving to create the perception of depth. So if you 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.000 were to close one eye, or if you were to 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.600 lose an eye, uh, you would not be able to 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.919 perceive depth the same way someone with two eyes can. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.280 You could still do it. Um, You mainly pick it 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.720 up from visual cues at that point, and your your 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.000 perception is not as accurate. Most humans have pretty accurate 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.000 depth perception to at least up to twenty feet or so. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.320 But if you only had one eye, then you would 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.960 you know, some things that you might think, oh, well, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.720 that's closer to me than that other object over there. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.200 You might be surprised to find out hoops, I was 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.400 wrong because you didn't have this the second eye to 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:46.680 you know, to verify the information. So three D movies, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.000 three D images, uh, they have to be able to 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.120 create this sense of of parallax in order for you 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.440 to to perceive them as you know, three dimensional as 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.920 opposed to two dimensional to give you that illusion of depth. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.160 You know, like a view master for example, exactly takes 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.640 advantage of that because it shows you slightly different versions 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.720 of the same image, right, which creates the illusion of death. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.320 And that's how those red and blue three D glasses work, right, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:18.080 It's called anaglyph images um, which uses red in a 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.320 different color rights usually blue, but could be green or yeah, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.680 it's usually it's usually red and blue. Those are the 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.320 classic three D glasses that a lot of us think 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.279 about when we when we hear the three D glasses thing. Um, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.640 So you you have an image that you're showing on 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.200 a screen, and it's got to say, kind of like 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.920 a reddish overlay on top of it, and then you 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:45.120 have the identical image superimposed or are shown just slightly 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.880 off to the side. Looks a little weird if you're 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.960 not wearing the glasses, which is usually in a blue 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.960 or perhaps green overlay. And then you have glasses with 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.520 corresponding lenses. Now, the red lens happens to block the 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.719 red light. It absorbs it straight through. You don't see it. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.200 You just see the blue and the blue it it 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.360 lets through the red light. And uh, your your eyes 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.240 see these two images separately, and your brain puts the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.360 information together to create the three D image. So your 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.000 brain is doing all the work really uh. And once 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.080 they figured out, hey, if we just put these two 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.440 images side by side really close together and do different 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.360 colors and have each I perceive a different color, then 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.400 we can create the illusion of depth. Uh. Then that's 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.800 that's when the three D movie craze really took off. Yeah, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.080 that's um, that's why if you take off the three 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.039 D glasses and look at the movie one of the 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.039 classic and a glyph style three D Uh, movies. You'll 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.400 notice that there's a red version of the image and 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:45.880 there's a blue version of the image, and it looks 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.800 like it's out of register. Like if you've seen a 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.080 color picture where the printing was just off and everything 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.480 seemed to be shifted in one direction and it's just 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.520 the red or just the yellow. Um, that means that 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.400 the printers didn't line up. The College's sort looks like 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.440 that because one of them will be just a little 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:03.880 to the left and one will be just a little 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.799 to the right, and you're gonna what's up with this? Well, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.400 because they're slightly different, it allows your brain to make 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.240 up that there's a three D version of that. But 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.960 that's not how the newer version of three D works. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.320 The newer version uses polarized lenses. That's right, now, That's 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.080 that's interesting because polarized lenses is all about the angle 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.160 of the light waves, right, true, But it achieves the 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.919 same effect because um, the images are slightly different in direction, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.240 and by shifting the polarity and using the polarized glasses 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.080 it uh. It also fools your eyes and you don't 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:36.839 have to have red and blue version of the the 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.719 image on the right. They look more like, you know, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.159 kind of dorky sunglasses. Um. In general, I guess you 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.880 could really if you wanted to make a very stylish pair, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.320 but every pair I've ever seen looks kind of geeky. Well, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.480 if you're gonna go watch Captain EO, it doesn't really 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.160 matter anyway, because you know, the glasses sort of went 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.719 with the movie anyhow. Don't be talking smack about my 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.240 Michael Jackson. Um. So yeah, So these polarized lenses in 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.200 the same sense that the red and blue only allow 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.839 the blue and red respectively. Uh, those light waves through 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.200 the polarized lenses are kind of the same way. They're 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.960 aligned so that the light uh, the the angles of 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.280 the light waves will only go through one side or 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.360 the other. And usually you have two projectors projecting at 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.800 the same time. They're projecting. Each one's projecting a different 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.600 of what's projecting the same image at the same time, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.200 but in a different angle of light waves. So you're 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.560 getting both sets of images at the same time, but 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.920 only one eye receives each image and then your brain 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.520 does the work again. So it's based on a very 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.640 similar principle as the red and blue. Now I've heard 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.800 that people tend to experience less eye strain using this 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.760 method than they did when they use the red and 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.960 blue Um. Have you ever seen a three D movie 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.800 like a full three D movie with the red and 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.960 blue glasses like a full length feature film. I haven't 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.800 ever watched anything that long. The longest thing I have 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.320 in three D is Captain EO. Now that you mentioned, Okay, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.120 well I have um as and this is one of 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.400 my childhood memories. So sit back and grab a coke. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.600 I went to see Jaws in three D. Jaws three 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.880 in three D and the theater with my dad. Uh. Hi, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.720 Dad and dad and I. Um we sat there and 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.680 watched this movie and by the end of it we 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.800 each had splitting headaches. And uh. Also, by the way, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.640 just so you know, terrible movie. Uh. The only three 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.480 D effect that was really effective was when someone held 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.400 a syringe out towards the screen in the way that 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.080 absolutely no one does and then pushed the plunger. Um. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.440 That was actually pretty effective. The shark stuff not so 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.440 much at any rate. But the terror didn't stop at 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.320 the edge of the screen. Oh my gosh, you knew 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:54.320 the tagline so um So anyway, anyway, it was it 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.160 was it definitely did cause eye straight Now I've warned 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.920 the polarized glasses uh for shure demonstrations, but nothing for 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.440 really any length of time. So I'm kind of curious 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.440 to see if if it really, if it lives up 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.800 to the hype. Um. And of course there's one other 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.280 kind of three D glasses we can talk about, the 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.920 active glasses. Oh, yes, those are the ones that you 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.360 actually saw at CES. Yeah, I saw a couple of 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.680 different instances of active glasses. Now, with these other versions 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.000 we're talking about, you usually, like I said, have two 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.760 projectors projecting the images at the same time. Um. Really, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.640 the you know, that's the best way to show these images. Now, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.960 with active glasses, you can have one projector showing or 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.280 one screen whatever showing these images. Um altogether. But the 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.360 difference is in this case, rather than the glasses just 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.240 being a piece of paper or plastic with the lenses 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.040 in front of your face, the glasses are doing all 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.920 the work instead the projectors. Right, The glasses have a 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:53.720 shutter where they turn on and off a polarization effect, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.800 and they do it at such a fast speed that 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.760 you would never be able to to see it. You can't, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.400 you know, consciously notice that they're shuttering on and off. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.160 Um I mentioned that the vidio ones I saw shuttered 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.079 at a sixty hurts refresh rate for each eye. So 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.200 the screen, what it's doing is it's alternating the image 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.680 at the same rate that your glasses are shuttering on 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.880 and off, and you're getting these two different images, uh 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.800 at at a rate of speed that's so fast that 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.600 your brain essentially thinks it's the same it's happening at 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.719 the same time. You know from your perception it's all 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.559 happening at the same time, even though in reality it's 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.240 switching back and forth at this incredible rate of speed. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.840 So the effect again is that your brain puts it 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.480 together and says, hey, there's depth there. It's not just 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.760 a flat surface. And the effect really is pretty interesting, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.920 and that you know, you look at the screen and 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.840 it looks like you can actually see beyond just that 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.280 flat surface. Um it's it's there's some effect of the 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.319 you know, oh, it's coming out toward me. But that's 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.200 kind of minor in comparison to just this amazing depth 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.920 of vision that you get in these screens. And um 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.640 you might wonder like, well, okay, so we've got all 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.920 this technology. Where's the big deal? Well, Hollywood is really 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:18.600 kind of experimenting with this technology recently. There's been there's 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.839 been quite a few movies that have come out with 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.360 that feature this three D tech and UH, and not 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.640 only just movies, but also sporting events and concerts that 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.840 have have shown up either in theaters or on television 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.160 that use three D and UM. Part of that is 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:41.240 made possible by the use of digital video technology. I mean, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.760 film really didn't give us the opportunity to use it 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.800 as much as digital does, so that just makes it, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.520 you know, easier and cheaper for the studios to do. UM, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.040 which is you know, probably a good thing. And UM 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.240 actually is a good transition in the next part of 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.959 what I was going to bring up, although I think 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.120 you may have answered my option because there's so much 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.959 three D at c e S. It was one of 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.880 the big themes of this year's show. UM, I was 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.720 going to ask you if you thought three D was 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.839 the next big living room phenomenon. But from what I understand, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:17.840 most TVs that use three D technology use the anaglyph method, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.600 use the red and blue glasses and if it's a 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.319 big eye stream and maybe it's that such. I mean, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.040 people are not going to sit there and watch TV 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.200 for four hours a night and get splitting headaches. If 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.480 you if you wanted to use uh like the active glasses, 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.679 you would need a special display or special television um, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.440 something that's called three D ready. And there are only 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.920 a few sets, relatively few sets out there that are 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.760 three D ready, either as computer monitors or television sets 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.920 like the like mis Mitsubishi laser View. I keep bringing 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.199 it up, but that's one of the ones that's three 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.760 D ready. Um. If you don't have the television that's 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.880 capable of doing that, then you're kind of stuck. You've 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.959 got a really expensive pair of glasses that don't really 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.080 work very well make you look like a big dork. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.320 So um, hey congrats. But if you do have one 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.480 of those sets, then you can take advantage of this technology. Now, 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.520 of course, that means you also have to find content 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.199 that was optimized for that technology. It's not gonna just 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.120 work on anything. It's not like you could turn on 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.080 any television like, oh way, yeah, I get full House 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.920 in three D um. That's that might have been scarier 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:28.559 than the Jaws, but they're there. There's a lot of 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.000 three D stuff that's just starting to uh to creep in. Like, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.240 for example, this year's Super Bowl, which was you know, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.640 absolutely amazing. Um, we say as we record a few 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.319 days before that, but um, from what I from what 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:48.520 I understand, Pepsi and UH and Universal both took out 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.559 ads for the Super Bowl. Um, Pepsi for Sobey's Life 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.320 water and UH the movie Monsters and Aliens from Universal 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:01.400 both had three d ads and UH, NBC was so 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.000 excited about that. They're even advertising the ads that they're 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.480 coming up so you can actually get the glasses and 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.079 watch the three d ads in time. It's getting a 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.480 little too meta for me now. The Monsters Versus Aliens. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.319 That's a movie that's coming out later in two thousand nine, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.720 and actually in three it will be in three D. Yeah, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:24.880 it's it's a computer graphics animated film and I saw 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.920 clips of that when I was at c E S. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.360 That was one of the demos they did with the 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.160 three D technology and it looks pretty good. Um. There 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.080 are several other movies that are coming out either this 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.400 year or in coming years that are going to be 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.480 using three D. That includes James Cameron's Avatar, not to 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.000 be confused with the Nickelodeon Nickelodeon cartoon show which my 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:50.960 wife loves. Hello wife. Uh there's uh, there's a rumored 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.840 version of a Christmas Carol that maybe in three D. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.840 It's going to use the same creepy technology as Polar Express. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.600 I bet it was a Dickens to make. I'm sure 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.800 it was. Then there's a There's How to Train Your 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.400 Dragon Crude Awakening Alice in Wonderland, which is Tim Burton's 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.320 take on the classic tail. Um Johnny Depp will be 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.080 in that. I think he's the Mad Hatter if I'm 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.600 not mistaken. Um, he should be if he's not. The 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.960 next Trek film is supposed to be in three D Mastermind. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.520 Also the one that we Are you and I will 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.720 be waiting for with bated breath. Yes, the remastered three 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.400 D version of Star Wars. I saw clips of that 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.320 while I was at c E S and it was 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.520 one of the two times I came close to crying. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.960 Good tears are bad, Oh, just tears of joy to 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.880 see to see the Karelian starship being chased by that 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.200 star destroyer and it's looming at me right there. And 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.560 then R two D two is right in front of 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:56.880 my face. Oh man, okay, wait wait, I'm back. I'm back. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.680 So that's okay. It'll it'll be twenty more years before 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.160 Orge Lucas decides on the final, final, final three D 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.960 versions and you know, with the refinements in it, and 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.000 then of course we have the video games that could 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.040 come out. Um that Navidia is really pushing for. Navidias, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:19.400 the graphics processing card manufacturer, they have the g Force classes. Um, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.640 they have a whole list of video games that are 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.560 already prepared to go to three D. I mean, everything 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.240 is there. You just have to have the right display, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.120 the graphics chip and the glasses and then you're ready 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.080 to go. And among the games that they say are 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.160 optimized for this include Age of Empires three, Battlefield to 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.800 Call of Duty, for Civilization for for you, said Meyer 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.680 fans out there, Burnout Paradise, for you race card driving 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.840 fans out there, World of Warcraft. Um, if you're a 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:52.800 World of Warcraft fan, you're not listening to this. You're 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.160 playing World of Warcraft, Half Life two, Left for Dead, 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:02.200 roller Coaster Tycoon. Yeah, roller Coaster ty Coon. Okay, you 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.200 know you may be laughing at that, but if you 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:10.120 think about it. You know, that could be pretty pretty cool. Yeah. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.639 You get to ride the rights and you get to 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:16.080 see your your your amusement park in three D. There's 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.399 some pretty nifty things out there. So yeah, it's it. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.880 I think they're pushing for it to be the next 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.560 big thing. Now here's the question. Are people going to 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.520 adopt it? And specifically, are people going to be willing 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.879 to spend money on it, especially in an economic downturn? 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.399 Oh well, I imagine that this is the kind of 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.159 thing that would cost a lot of money, even not 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.600 in an economic downturn. Yeah, because this is not I mean, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.400 this is using brand new technology that is different from 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.199 the technology would see in a standard LCD display right right. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.040 The glasses alone can cost you like two D bucks. Yeah, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.600 so that's that's before you even get a graphics card 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.560 or the display or television. So it makes the three 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.000 D super Bowl party kind of expensive. Yeah. I think 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:03.000 the laser view was around seven grand. Um, So yeah, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.200 that's uh, that's an expensive toy. So it may be 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.360 beyond our reach for a few more years. Time will tell. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.080 I mean, if enough early adopters do go out and 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.840 buy this stuff, that will drive the price down, and 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.399 then the rest of us can can enjoy stuff in 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.160 three D as well. And of course you can still 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.760 go to the movie theater and see a lot of 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.680 these films in three D. I mean, even movies that 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.200 weren't made completely in three D, you can sometimes see 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.800 parts of it in three D. So now it's at 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.600 least the film industry is really trying to push forward. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.000 I think that's partly in response to UM piracy. Actually 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.480 when you think about it, because if you can't recreate 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.200 the experience at home, you have to go to the 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.680 theater to get the experience. But when you can recreate 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.119 the experience at home, then they're trumped again. Yeah, you 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.119 just pirate the heck out of it. Not that you 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.200 would or I would, but you know, those nefarious people 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.040 who are not our listeners because we're all well behaved, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.639 we're we're good ones in this in this podcast. Yeah, well, 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.159 that's a good discussion. I do have one other thing 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:12.879 to add. Oh yes, that would be listener mail. That 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.719 was great. So uh so this listener mail comes from 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.120 Mike Linderer from Grayling, Michigan, and Mike wanted to give 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.040 us a few more UM suggestions. When we did our 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.720 Tech Toys episode talking about the sort of things that 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.320 keep us saying at work. He had a few more 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.480 to suggest, so I was just gonna run through some 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.040 of the ones that he listed. He listed Slacker, which 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.720 is another internet radio style site. You can talk a 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.840 little bit about that, right, Chris, you know, Oh yeah, yeah, Slacker. UM. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.159 Slacker sort of like a cross between last FM and 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.680 UH and ANDORRA because you do get to select your 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.040 stations UM. And when I say it's across, it's sort 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:54.920 of tool wise the things you get to do with 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.760 the songs UM, as far as tagging them and things 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.719 like that. You have some more control, more so than 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.359 you might in Pandora UM. But you have more control 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.920 over the station like you would in last NFM. But 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:07.920 it's it's one of very many. There are lots and 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:13.440 lots of other stations out there, like Django is another example, UM, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:18.119 and just various radio radio one. Mama. You know, there 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.159 are there are lots and lots of music sites out there, 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.720 and each one of them is a little bit different. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.840 They offer something that you can't do with the others. 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.639 Fine Tune is an example of that because you actually 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.080 get to listen to a specific song, but you can 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.800 only put you know, three You create playlists and you 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.200 can only put three songs by a particular artist or 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:41.400 three songs by on a particular album on your playlist. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.399 So there are still restrictions and things that might You 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.000 might listen to one for a couple of hours ago. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.119 You know, this is driving me crazy. There restrictions on 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:49.760 the site. And then you go in another, um, well 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.600 this is cool. Oh, but there are these different restrictions, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.160 so and maybe something it might end up turning onto 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.760 something like the whole Twitter Pounce plerk battle and you 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.520 see which one ends up surviving. True, hopefully they all will. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.080 They all have something different that they bring in the party. Yep. 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.240 And then some others that Mike mentions are he mentions 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.920 line writer, which is, you know, it's kind of a 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.000 game and kind of an art project thing. Have you 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.359 ever seen this? I've seen it. I haven't used it myself. 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.760 It's uh, I've tried to use it, but I'm a terrible, 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.400 terrible artist, so I can't make the little guy ride 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.720 his line for very long. He always ends up wiping 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.000 out spectacularly and then falling for about you know, forty 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.520