WEBVTT - RERUN: How 3-D Glasses Work 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.280 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.560 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.520 I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.200 are you? So we have come to the end of 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.400 the new episodes I had recorded for when I was 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.120 on vacation. I'm still on vacation as this episode goes out, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.520 So we're going to turn to a true classic episode 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:37.240 of tech Stuff. This episode originally published way way back 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.960 on February fourth, two thousand and nine, which means my 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.640 original co host, Chris Palette. It introduces the show, this 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:51.760 is how three D glasses work, and I hope you enjoy. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.440 We touched on this on a recent podcast when we 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.560 talked about cees and then we realize that, you know, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.920 three D technology. It's something that has been around for 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.520 many decades actually, but it's starting to come back now. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.520 It's like it seems weird. It's like every like the 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.000 nineteen fifties it got really big for a little while 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.840 and then it kind of died away. And then nineteen 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.480 eighties it got big for a little while and then 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.920 it kind of died away. And this looks like it's 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.520 another one of those those moments sort of like the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.800 Yo Yo, where it just comes back in vogue and 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.000 who knows, maybe this time it's here to stay. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:25.039 Well. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.640 Yeah, we we have an article on the site how 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.919 three D glasses work that was written by our site 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:36.160 founder Marshall Brain. Yes, and it's really fascinating. The According 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.120 to the article, the Power of Love was the first 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.399 movie to be done in three D and that was 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:41.520 nineteen twenty two. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:42.720 It's a curious thing. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.960 So we're thank you, thanks for the news. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.720 Yeah, so you know, we're coming up on a century 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.160 of three D you know, video technology, which is uh, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.200 you kind of think about it. I always thought of 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.440 it as a fifties and sixties singer and it's yeah, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.560 it's been around for quite some time. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.400 And you sit there and you think about that, like, okay, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.120 so if it's almost a century old, why is it 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.080 still relatively rare? 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.640 Is it's a pain in the neck to actually make 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.280 it work. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.079 Right, and I'm pain on the eyes as well as 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.240 it turns out. Yeah, that's one of the problems is 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.519 that there's no For longest time, there was no real 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.840 easy way of doing this that didn't result in after 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.280 you know, maybe watching something for about forty minutes feeling 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.480 like your eyeballs were on fire. It's a little better now, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.880 but we'll get to that first. We should kind of 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.600 talk about why we're able to perceive or why three 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.640 d's important, and how we're able to perceive it. It 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.519 all goes down to it comes down to binocular vision. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.560 You know, I have a pair of binoculars and it 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.560 doesn't look like I'm looking into three D. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.240 Right, That doesn't It's not what it means. So we're 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.919 talking about using both eyes to see objects and then 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:58.880 perceive depth using both of your eyes. There's this It's 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.680 what's called parallax. It's where you're looking at objects and 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.000 because your eyes are not located in the exact same 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.239 spot on your head, go figure you can Actually your 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.959 brain uses the difference in the angles that you're perceiving 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.840 to create the perception of depth. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.040 So if you were. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.000 To close one eye, or if you were to lose 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.000 an eye, you would not be able to perceive depth 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.959 the same way someone with two eyes can. You could 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.040 still do it. You mainly pick it up from visual 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.800 cues at that point, and your perceptions not as accurate. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.880 Most humans have pretty accurate death perception to at least 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.760 up to twenty feet or so. But if you only 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.680 had one eye, then you would you know some things 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.440 that you might think, oh, well, that's closer to me 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.000 than that other object over there. You might be surprised 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.960 to find out ooops, I was wrong because you didn't 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:53.320 have the second eye to verify the information. So three 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.480 D movies, three D images, they have to be able 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.560 to create this sense of of parallax in order for 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.080 you to perceive them as you know, three dimensional as 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.680 opposed to two dimensional, to give you that illusion of depth. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.480 Like a few Master for example, exactly takes advantage of that. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.280 It shows you slightly different versions of the same image, right, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.400 which create the illusion of depth. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.560 And that's how those red and blue three D glasses. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.240 Work, right, It's called anaglyph. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:27.279 Images, which uses red in a different color. Right, it's 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.120 usually blue, but could be green or. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.080 Yeah, yeah, it's usually it's usually red and blue. Those 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.640 are the classic three D glasses that a lot of 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.720 us think about when we when we hear the three 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.240 D glasses thing. So you have an image that you're 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.760 showing on a screen, and it's got say, kind of 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.400 like a reddish overlay on top of it, and then 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:52.359 you have the identical image superimposed or are shown just 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.360 slightly off to the side. Looks a little weird if 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.960 you're not wearing the glasses, which is usually in a 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.480 blue or perhaps green overlay, and then you have glasses 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.960 with corresponding lenses. Now, the red lens happens to block 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.080 the red light. It absorbs it straight through. You don't 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.159 see it. You just see the blue and the blue 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:14.320 it lets through the red light, and your eyes see 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.400 these two images separately, and your brain puts the information 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.279 together to create the three D image. So your brain 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.560 is doing all the work, really, and once they figured out, hey, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.800 if we just put these two images side by side, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.320 really close together and do different colors and have each 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.680 eye perceive a different color, then we can create the 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.400 illusion of depth. Then that's when the three D movie 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:39.559 craze really took off. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.520 Yeah, that's why. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.680 If you take off the three D glasses and look 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.680 at the movie, one of the classic anaglyph style three 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.600 D movies, you'll notice that there's a red version of 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.159 the image and there's a blue version of the image, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 and it looks like it's out of register. Like if 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.760 you've seen a color picture where the printing was just 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.920 and everything seemed to be shifted in one direction, as 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.200 just the red or just the yellow, that means that 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:07.440 the printers didn't line up the colors. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.160 It sort of looks like that because. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.240 One of them will be just a little to the 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:11.840 left and one will be just a little to the right, 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.320 and you're going, what's up with this? Well, because they're 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.440 slightly different, it allows your brain to make up that 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.280 there's a three D version of that. But that's not 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.960 how the newer version of three D works. The newer 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.520 version uses polarized lenses. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.480 That's right, now, that's interesting because polarized lenses is all 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.200 about the angle of the light waves, right. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.080 True, But it achieves the same effect because the images 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.160 are slightly different in direction, and by shifting the polarity 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.560 and using the polarized glasses, it also fools your eyes. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.960 And you don't have to have red and blue version 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.040 of the image on there. 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.280 Right, they look more like, you know, kind of dorky 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.760 sunglasses in general. I guess you could really if you 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.320 wanted to make a very stylish pair, But every pair 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.560 I've ever seen looks kind of geeky. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.440 Well, if you're. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.839 Gonna go watch Captain EO, it doesn't really matter anyway, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.919 because you know, the glass is sort of wet with 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:01.760 the movie anyhow. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.920 Don't be talking smack about my Michael Jackson. So yeah, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.159 So these polarized lenses in the same sense that the 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.800 red and blue only allow the blue and red respectively. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.000 Those light waves through the polarized lenses are kind of 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.920 the same way. They're a line, so that the light 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.040 the angles of the light waves will only go through 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.120 one side or the other. And usually you have two 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.600 projectors projecting at the same time. They're projecting. Each one's 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.640 projecting a different of what's protecting the same image at 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.800 the same time, but in a different angle of light waves. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.120 So you're getting both sets of images at the same time, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.280 but only one eye receives each image, and then your 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.920 brain does the work again. So it's based on a 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.840 very similar principle as the red and blue. Now I've 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.280 heard that people tend to experience less eye strain using 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.320 this method than they did when they use the red 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.720 and blue. Have you ever seen a three D movie, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.480 like a full three D movie with the red and 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.200 blue glasses like a full length feature film. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.600 Dyes, I haven't ever watched anything that long. Okay, the 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.640 est thing I have seen in three D is Captain 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:09.760 Neo now that you mentioned. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.760 Okay, well I have as and this is one of 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.040 my childhood memories. So sit back and grab a coke, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.440 all right. I went to see Jaws in three D. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.200 You did Jaws three in three D and the theater 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.160 with my dad. Hi, Dad, and Dad and I we 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.960 sat there and watched this movie and by the end 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:35.120 of it, we each had splitting headaches. And also, by 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.000 the way, just so you know, terrible movie. The only 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.480 three D effect that was really effective is when someone 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.920 held a syringe out towards the screen in the way 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.079 that absolutely no one does and then pushed the plunger. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.040 That was actually pretty effective. The shark stuff not so 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.679 much at any rate. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.880 But the terror didn't stop at the edge of the screen. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.920 Oh my gosh, you knew the tagline, so so any 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.440 anyway it was, it was. It definitely did cause eye 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:08.960 straight Now. I've worn the polarized glasses for short demonstrations, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.439 but nothing for really any length of time. So I'm 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.640 kind of curious to see if it really if it 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.199 lives up to the hype. And of course there's one 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.800 other kind of three D glasses we can talk about, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.119 the active glasses. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.120 Oh, yes, those are the ones that you actually saw 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:22.760 at CEES. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.840 Yeah, I saw a couple different instances of active glasses. Now, 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.760 with these other versions we're talking about, you usually, like 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.640 I said, have two projectors projecting the images at the 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.400 same time. It really the you know, that's the best 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.280 way to show these images. Now, with active glasses, you 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.520 can have one projector showing or one screen whatever showing 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.360 these images all together. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.360 But the difference is in this case, rather than the 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.360 glasses just being a piece of paper or plastic with 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.400 the lenses in front of your face, the glasses are 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:54.920 doing all the work instead of the projectors. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:55.360 Right. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.480 The glasses have a shutter where they turn on and 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.800 off a polarization effect, and they do it at such 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.199 a fast speed that you would never be able to 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.000 see it. You can't, you know, consciously notice that they're 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.880 shuttering on and off. I mentioned that the in video 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.720 ones I saw shuttered at a sixty hertz refresh rate 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.400 for each eye. So the screen what it's doing is 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.640 it's alternating the image at the same rate that your 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.880 glasses are shuttering on and off, and you're getting these 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.000 two different images at a rate of speed that's so 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.760 fast that your brain essentially thinks it's the same it's 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.400 happening at the same time. From your perception, it's all 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.199 happening at the same time, even though in reality it's 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.839 switching back and forth at this incredible rate of speed. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.520 So the effect, again is that your brain puts it 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.160 together and says, hey, there's depth there. It's not just 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.400 a flat surface. And the effect really is pretty interesting, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.560 and that you know, you look at the screen and 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.480 it looks like you can actually see beyond just that 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.520 flat surface. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:00.880 Right. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.439 It's it's there's some effect of the you know, oh, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.720 it's coming out toward me. But that's kind of minor 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.400 in comparison to just this amazing depth of vision that 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:16.320 you get in these screens. And you might wonder like, well, okay, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.920 so we've got all this technology, where's the big deal. Well, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.600 Hollywood is really kind of experimenting with this technology recently. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.680 There's been there have been quite a few movies that 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.520 have come out with that feature this three D tech, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.080 and and not only just movies, but also sporting events 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.480 and concerts that have have shown up either in theaters 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.080 or on television that use three. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.720 D, and part of that is made possible by the 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.720 use of digital video technology, right, I mean, film really 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.959 didn't give us the opportunity to use it as much 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.720 as digital does. Right, So that just makes it, you know, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.600 easier and cheaper for the studios to do, which is 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.520 you know, probably a good thing and actually is a 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.320 good transition in the next part of what I was 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.000 going to bring up. Although I think you may have 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.160 answered my question because there's so much three D at CEES. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.360 It was one of the big themes of this year's show. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.000 I was going to ask you if you thought three 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.560 D was the next big living room phenomenon. But I 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.199 want to understand, most TVs that use three D technology 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.640 use the anaglyph method, use the red and blue glasses 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.280 if it's a big eye strain, and maybe it's such. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.120 I mean, people are not going to sit there and 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.680 watch TV for four hours a night and get splitting headaches. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.520 If you wanted to use the active glasses, you would 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.120 need a special display or special television something that's called 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.000 three D ready, and there are only a few sets, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.440 relatively few sets out there that are three D ready, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.320 either as computer monitors or television sets like the Mitsubishi 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.040 Laser View. I keep bringing it up, but that's one 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.840 of the ones that's three D ready. Chris and I 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.120 will be back to talk more about three D glasses 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:15.480 after this quick break. If you don't have a television 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.640 that's capable of doing that, then you're kind of stuck. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.720 You've got a really expensive pair of glasses that don't 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.600 really work very well and make you look like a 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.920 big dork. So hey, congrats, But uh, if you do 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.040 have one of those sets, then you can take advantage 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.480 of this technology. Now, of course, that means you also 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:35.199 have to find content that was optimized for that technology. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.360 It's not going to just work on anything. It's not 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.120 like you could turn on any television like, oh way, yay, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.640 I get Full House in three D. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.480 Now that's that might have been scarier than the Jaws. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.320 Yeah, it's just sad what that is. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:48.320 But they're there. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.760 Uh, there's a lot of three D stuff that's just 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.800 starting to, uh to creep in, Like for example, this 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.240 year's Super Bowl, right, which was you know, absolutely amazing. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.880 Sure, we say it's record a few days before that, but. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.520 From what I From what I understand, Pepsi and Universal 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.600 both took out ads for the Super Bowl, Pepsi for 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.720 Sovie's Life Water and the movie Monsters and Aliens from Universal. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:22.400 Both had three d ads. Yeah, and NBC was so 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:23.160 excited about that. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.520 They're even advertising the ads that they're coming up so 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.200 you can actually get the glasses and watch the three 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:30.400 d ads in time. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.040 It's getting a little too meta for me. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:32.760 Yeah. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.320 Now the Monsters Versus Aliens, that's a movie that's coming 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.960 out later in two thousand and nine, and they actually 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.640 in three day it will be in three D. Yeah, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:45.840 it's it's a computer graphics animated film and I saw 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.120 clips of that when I was at CES. That was 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.360 one of the demos they did with the three D technology, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.160 and it looks pretty good. There are several other movies 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.040 that are coming out either this year or in coming 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.200 years that are going to be using three D. That 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.640 includes James Cameron's Avatar, not to be confused with the 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:09.400 Nickelodeon Nickelodeon cartoon show which My wife loves, Hello Wife. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.360 There's there's a rumored version of a Christmas Carol that 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.560 may be in three D it's going to use the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.760 same creepy technology as Polar Express. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.120 I bet, I bet it was it Dickens to make. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.240 I'm sure it was. Then there's a There's How to 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.400 Train Your Dragon Crude Awakening Alice in Wonderland, which is 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.160 Tim Burton's take on the classic tale. Johnny Depp will 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.840 be in that. I think he's the Mad Hatter. If 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.400 I'm not mistaken, you should. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:38.720 Be if he's not. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.640 The next track film is supposed to be in three 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.120 D Mastermind, also the one that we Are You and 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.480 I will be waiting for with baited breath. Yes, the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:52.120 remastered three D version of Star Wars. I saw clips 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.280 of that while I was at CEES and it was 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.480 one of the two times I came close to crying. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.760 Good tears are bad, just tears of. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.560 Joy to see to see the Karelian starship being chased 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.080 by that star destroyer and it's looming at me right there, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.440 and then R two D two is right in front 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:16.640 of my face. Oh man, it's gone bye bye. Yeah, okay, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:17.880 wait wait, I'm back. I'm back. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:18.760 So that's okay. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.000 It'll it'll be twenty more years before George Lucas decides 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.720 on the final, Final, final three D version, sure, and 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.240 you know with the refinements in. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.520 It, and then of course we have the video games 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.920 that could come out. That's true that Navidia is really 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.240 pushing for. Navidio's the graphics processing card manufacturer, and they 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.240 have the g fours glasses. They have a whole list 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.920 of video games that are already prepared to go to 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.520 three D. I mean, everything is there. You just have 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.920 to have the right display, the graphics chip and the 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.640 glasses and then you're ready to go. And among the 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.960 games that they say are optimized for this include Age 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:02.160 of Empires three, Battlefield to Call of Duty, for Civilization 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.400 for for you Sid Meyer fans out there, Burnout Paradise 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.320 for you race car driving fans out there, World of Warcraft. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.320 If you're a World of Warcraft fan, you're not listening 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.000 to this. You're playing World of Warcraft, Half Life two, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:21.440 Left for Dead, roller Coaster Tycoon. Seriously, Yeah, roller Coaster Tycoon. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.800 Okay, you know you may be laughing at that, but 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.760 if you think about it, you know that could be 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:29.560 pretty pretty cool. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.520 Yeah. You get to ride the rights and you get 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.639 to see your your your amusement park in three D 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.359 there's some pretty nifty things out there, so yeah, it's it. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.880 I think they're pushing for it to be the next 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.560 big thing. Now here's the question. Are people going to 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.520 adopt it? And specifically, are people going to be willing 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.840 to spend money on it, especially in an economic downturn. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.320 Oh well, I imagine that this is the kind of 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.240 thing that would cost a lot of money, even not 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.560 in an economic downturn. Yeah, because this is not I mean, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.399 this is using brand new technology that is different from 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.040 the technology you would see in a standard LCD display. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.879 Right right, The glasses alone can cost you like two 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.680 hundred bucks. Yeah, so that's that's before you even get 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.800 a graphics card or the display or television. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.840 So that makes the three D super Bowl party kind 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:18.720 of expensive. Yeah. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.800 I think the laser view was around seven grand. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.600 Yeah that's about so. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.080 Yeah, that's a that's an expensive toy. So it may 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.880 be beyond our reach for a few more years. Time 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.679 will tell. I mean, if enough early adopters do go 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.400 out and buy this stuff, that will drive the price 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.000 down and then the rest of us can can enjoy 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:39.679 stuff in three D as well. And of course you 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.440 can still go to the movie theater and see a 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.960 lot of these films in three D. I mean even 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.560 movies that weren't made completely in three D, you can 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.119 sometimes see parts of it in three D. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:49.960 True. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.440 So now it's at least the film industry is really 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.120 trying to push for it. I think that's partly in 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.960 response to piracy actually when you think about it, because 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.480 if you can't recreate the experience at home, you have 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.000 to go to the theater to get the experience. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.840 But when you can recreate the experience at home, then 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:10.640 they're trumped again. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.720 Yeah, you just pirate the heck out of it. Not 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.800 that you would or I would, but you know, those 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.120 nefarious people who are not our listeners, because we're all 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.360 well behaved, we're. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.760 Good ones in this podcast. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:27.240 Yeah, hope you enjoyed that classic rerun episode How three 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.000 D Glasses Work. It's funny because when we recorded that 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.879 back in two thousand and nine, the television industry was 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:38.600 really pushing three D TV super hard. It was obviously 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:43.359 an attempt to differentiate televisions from one another, as well 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.560 as to try and cut back on stuff like media piracy. 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:52.280 But ultimately the consumers rejected three D TV, and you 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.240 don't really see it as an option that much anymore, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.199 not saying it's totally gone away, but it certainly is 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.080 not the norm for televisions these days. Hope you enjoyed 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.879 that classic episode and hope you are all well, and 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:16.080 I'll talk to you again really soon. Tech Stuff is 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.639 an iHeartRadio production. 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