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Pixar to Release All New Movies in 3D

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-the-glasses dept.

emcron writes "The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with "Up" in May 2009. Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney's upcoming lineup of animated movies."

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  1. Re:w00t! by Takumi2501 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I still don't know how the technology even works without the red/green separation? I believe they use polarized lenses in the glasses. One lens is polarized vertically while the other is horizontal.
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  2. Re:w00t! by garyok · · Score: -1, Redundant
    At some cinemas (like the IMAX in London) alternate frames (for each eye) are passed through vertically and horizontally polarised filters. You wear glasses with similarly polarised lenses and, when the polarisation matches, you see the image in one eye and, when it doesn't, you don't. Some also use LCD shutters synchronised with the projector to blank out the unwanted image to the eye.

    I saw Beowulf at the London IMAX. All I'll say is don't sit too close to the screen cos you'll wreck your neck trying to see everything. Otherwise totally cool.

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  3. Re:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I believe the newer 3D technologies work off of polarization. The filters in the glasses they give you are polarized in perpendicular directions, and they run the film twice as fast. In essence, the scenes for the left eye don't "fit" through the filter over the right eye, and the reverse is true. The frames come fast enough that two corresponding frames look like they happen at the same time (especially since each eye only sees one of them).

  4. Re:w00t! by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I still don't know how the technology even works without the red/green separation?

    Polarization.

    It's hard for me to visualize though, with a lazy eye. I rather had a lazy something else.

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  5. Re:w00t! by toQDuj · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You can get the same separation using polarised light.

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  6. Re-releases by Wowsers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If they re-released "Toy Story", it could give a new dimension to the name "Woody".

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