So is 2009 the year of the 3D movie? James Cameron’s Avatar comes out in December, and everything I’ve heard is all, “Oh my God, we’ll need to knock down the Jefferson Memorial and replace it with a Cameron Memorial this movie is so great.” And the Cannes Film Festival opens today with Disney’s Up, which is another 3D film that’s supposed to knock our socks off.
As we’ve said in the past, Hollywood is desperate for 3D movies to take off. How can you expect to keep dragging people to the thee-aay-ter when they all have 50+ inch HDTVs and Blu-ray players? Why, you need to trick out the thee-aay-ter, of course: add some gimmicks, throw in a bell and/or whistle and bam! People come back.
So Hollywood hopes.
One thing that will never sit will with me: that I have to put on stupid 3D glasses just to experience this wonder. I already wear glasses, and asking me to put on an extra pair of glasses is just not gonna fly. I might as well put on an extra pail of underpants over my shorts, à la Quailman.
This post might be bigger than just what’s in the “see-ne-mah”, but what’ll happen at home, too. I saw some excellent 3D clips using flat panel displays at SIGGRAPH. Why else would you see such a proliferation of 120Hz, and even 240Hz displays?
Sadly, you will have to wear some %@$& 3D glasses. The best ones I saw had you wear LCD glasses so that the TV would show 120 Hz (60Hz per eye), but each eye would get a 60Hz signal.
No no.. he’s got a point. Many people wear glasses.. and putting glasses on top of glasses is a pain in the arse.
Isn’t there some progress in making three-dimensional projection screens that do not need special eyewear that could be used in a large screen like in theaters? I know I’ve heard of smaller home-bound sized screens, sure, but nothing theater-sized, I think.
Nice Doug reference. A friend came to one of my Halloween parties in college dressed as Quail Man, and he did a good job with the costume. At that moment, all was right in the world.
Acctually it is a missconception that people don’t like to put on the glasses but serveys 004 with Polar Expresshave been done with the people leaving the theaters and found that most did not mind the glasses. They felt that it was worth to get the 3d depth. Some people online say that history will repeat itself and 3d will fizzle out like before. If that is the case then they should have done that two years ago. The big 3d wave of the 1950s only lasted two years.
This wave started in 2004 with polar express so so far has lasted twice as long.
Well, it is either 3D glasses, or you can try crossing your eyes for two hours. Depends on how good your were in those Magic Eye books. ;) Otherwise I can’t think on how a screen will be able to send some information to one eye, and some to the other without a gadget, at least its not a like a 10pound VR visor. (on the other hand, who knows what those tech people are up to. Maybe there is another way. At the end never thought I will be able to do the things I do with my iPhone 10 years ago).
get some contacts problems solved