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I was just curious about the different passive 3D technologies used in movie theaters.
I was under the impression that they are all just polarized plastic. However, IMAX theaters told me their glasses were "different" and weren't the same as the normal cinemas.
I wear glasses normally, so having to wear a SECOND pair of glasses always gets on my nerves. As a result, I got something like this:
I tried them out at an IMAX theater, and much to my dismay they didn't work. But more on that in a bit.
Yesterday I saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which is not in IMAX... so I saw the "normal" one in "RealD 3D". I took along the same pair of clip-on 3D lenses, and for that projection, they worked perfectly. So much more comfortable than having a separate pair of glasses on my head.
Now, what I noticed when I was at the IMAX is that the "RealD" glasses are basically inverted for IMAX. As in, if I took the clip-on lenses and hold them up to my eyes backwards (so the left and right were reversed, but also looking front -> back of the plastic instead of back -> front), the picture appeared fine. Wearing them normally, the picture didn't appear blurry, but the 3D was inverted, so everything looked super strange since instead of coming out of the screen, it was sinking back into it (similar to how a Nintendo 3DS looks)
It might be worth pointing out that the IMAX I went to was a digital IMAX, not the traditional film-based kind. Sadly most movies aren't being distributed as film anymore leaving me no choice... we have a much bigger screen IMAX downtown but they only show films that are distributed as film. They have different glasses than the digital ones, to boot.
I just found it rather strange that the IMAX glasses are essentially "backwards" versions of the RealD ones. Did the IMAX corporation do that just to mess with people so you couldn't sneak into the theater with your own 3D glasses? (it's pretty hard to sneak into a 3D movie unless you've gotten some glasses beforehand...)
Or are they actually different and I just happened to get lucky that they "worked" by flipping them around? Of course, I couldn't clip them to my glasses that way so I had to hold them up to my face the entire time which was super-annoying, but I digress.
I was just curious about the different passive 3D technologies used in movie theaters.
I was under the impression that they are all just polarized plastic. However, IMAX theaters told me their glasses were "different" and weren't the same as the normal cinemas.
I wear glasses normally, so having to wear a SECOND pair of glasses always gets on my nerves. As a result, I got something like this:
I tried them out at an IMAX theater, and much to my dismay they didn't work. But more on that in a bit.
Yesterday I saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which is not in IMAX... so I saw the "normal" one in "RealD 3D". I took along the same pair of clip-on 3D lenses, and for that projection, they worked perfectly. So much more comfortable than having a separate pair of glasses on my head.
Now, what I noticed when I was at the IMAX is that the "RealD" glasses are basically inverted for IMAX. As in, if I took the clip-on lenses and hold them up to my eyes backwards (so the left and right were reversed, but also looking front -> back of the plastic instead of back -> front), the picture appeared fine. Wearing them normally, the picture didn't appear blurry, but the 3D was inverted, so everything looked super strange since instead of coming out of the screen, it was sinking back into it (similar to how a Nintendo 3DS looks)
It might be worth pointing out that the IMAX I went to was a digital IMAX, not the traditional film-based kind. Sadly most movies aren't being distributed as film anymore leaving me no choice... we have a much bigger screen IMAX downtown but they only show films that are distributed as film. They have different glasses than the digital ones, to boot.
I just found it rather strange that the IMAX glasses are essentially "backwards" versions of the RealD ones. Did the IMAX corporation do that just to mess with people so you couldn't sneak into the theater with your own 3D glasses? (it's pretty hard to sneak into a 3D movie unless you've gotten some glasses beforehand...)
Or are they actually different and I just happened to get lucky that they "worked" by flipping them around? Of course, I couldn't clip them to my glasses that way so I had to hold them up to my face the entire time which was super-annoying, but I digress.
Any idea where to get them?
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