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 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 6:09 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

...will I be able to use them when I go to see ID Resurgence?

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 6:26 PM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

Probably. I haven't been keeping up on 3D technologies, but RealD's circular polarization is the newest I've heard about. So either the film is using RealD, or similar systems exist. Circular polarization reduces the light/dark eye strain of linear polarization methods.

Short of using HUD-style visors, there aren't too many ways of delivering color 3D.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 6:26 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Won't the theater give you a pair of glasses when you pay your 3-D surcharge to see ID Resurgence? Or shouldn't we be asking such questions?

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 6:54 PM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

Won't the theater give you a pair of glasses?

Every 3D movie I've seen included glasses as part of the fare—including a showing of IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE at the museum!

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 7:23 PM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

3D sucks

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 7:35 PM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

3D sucks

I've never been impressed by any "3D" technology, and I've played with many systems. The big problem is that there's more to our spatial perception than parallax. Our eyes also track (come together, or move apart) depending on how close something is, and they refocus for distance. With any parallax system—anaglyphic, Pulfrich, polarized, shutter, video visor—everything is at the same distance. So while your eyes are getting cues that something is closer or farther, the tracking and focus of your eyes is telling you something different. After a while your eyeballs begin to hurt from the conflict.

Until a truly holographic system comes along (and that doesn't mean the image has to float out in open space), parallax 3D will remain a gimmick that brings very little to movies dramatically.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 7:36 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

Of COURSE the theatre provides the glasses, but if I still have all the pairs I've ever gotten from the 3D movies I've seen... might as well use them.
And RoryR.... while I wouldn't go as far as to say 3D sucks, I'll be honest with you... I'm just as happy seeing a film the NORMAL way! smile

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 7:47 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

For me 3D is a distraction. (and a huge eye sore.) I just can't immerse myself into the characters or story because my mind is constantly processing a forced visual effect.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 7:56 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Jim, is there anything unique about "The Force Awakens" 3-D glasses? Are they shaped differently or anything like that? I know the ones for "The Phantom Menace" were shaped like Anakin's pod racing goggles....

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 8:03 PM   
 By:   Jim Cleveland   (Member)

Oh no... that's just the last film I saw in 3D(Actually, it's the LAST film I've seen... rarely go to the movies, since most movies SUCK!big grin), and to be honest with you, if I hadn't had three free passes to the theatre, I would've seen the film in 2D.

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 8:12 PM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

It does NOTHING for movies dramatically and is without question a gimmick, the desperate ploy of a dying industry, that being the theatrical distribution of movies.

Luckily, good old regular movies, otherwise known as 2D, still dominate, so enjoy them while they last, and thank the movie gods for big flat screen HD TV and home theater.

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 8:18 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

3D isn't going anywhere. It perfectly fits the general audiences sensibilities today. Which is witnessing an experience first, story and characters second.

 
 Posted:   Apr 23, 2016 - 8:22 PM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

You know you get the same effect if you just watch with one eye.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 2:29 AM   
 By:   Mike_J   (Member)

3D sucks

3D rocks

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 2:40 AM   
 By:   Mike_J   (Member)

It does NOTHING for movies dramatically and is without question a gimmick, the desperate ploy of a dying industry, that being the theatrical distribution of movies.

Well a bunch of guys including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuaron, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson, Jean Luc Goddard and Steven Spielberg would disagree with that view.... and with all due respect, I think they know just a lil' bit more about cinema than you do.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 2:45 AM   
 By:   Mike_J   (Member)

3D can be awesome but I do understand the opposition to the format.

I just wish that studios would take more doing post-production conversions. When done right it can be incredible (Ant-Man in 3D was sensational for example) but it is the ones done quickly and cheaply (like the Clash of the Titans remake) that gives 3D a bad name.

I absolutely adore the 3D medium but I would actually prefer there were less movies issued in that format so that those that are can either be shot in native stereo or can be properly converted in post.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 2:47 AM   
 By:   Mike_J   (Member)

...will I be able to use them when I go to see ID Resurgence?

Yes they will, unless they are IMAX 3D glasses in which case they won't work on a standard 3D showing (and vice versa).

 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 2:48 AM   
 By:   Mr Greg   (Member)

The answer to the original question is "yes".

3D is just fine, thanks...

 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 3:24 AM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

Mike_J wrote: Yes they will, unless they are IMAX 3D glasses in which case they won't work on a standard 3D showing (and vice versa).

According to the Wikipedia article, IMAX presents 3D in one of two ways: polarized and shutter glasses. The article does not specify whether the polarization is linear or circular, but I'm guessing it is circular. I've seen merchants selling 3D glasses labeled as RealD/IMAX 3D, which means circular. So "IMAX 3D" glasses might work.

I'm also guessing that shutter glasses might be just expensive enough not to let patrons walk out of the theater with them. I haven't seen a set in person. The last shutter glasses I played with (back when CRTs were the norm) were part of a home video system and were wired to a small box. Stand-alone glasses would require on-board electronics and some local power supply. So again, not likely to be "disposable" like RealD and previous "passive" types (anaglyphic, linear polarized).

Shutter glasses use liquid crystal, like the display of a digital watch. Polarizing a lens makes it go completely dark. So shutter glasses must be synchronized to the display system in order to alternately block first one eye and then the other.

 
 Posted:   Apr 24, 2016 - 7:39 AM   
 By:   RoryR   (Member)

It does NOTHING for movies dramatically and is without question a gimmick, the desperate ploy of a dying industry, that being the theatrical distribution of movies.

Well a bunch of guys including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuaron, Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson, Jean Luc Goddard and Steven Spielberg would disagree with that view.... and with all due respect, I think they know just a lil' bit more about cinema than you do.


Bullshit. They're just in business. It's not about an aesthetic, it's about making $$$

 
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