Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films

After watching Jack-Ass 3D seriously ipaidcash moneyforit in the theater and nearly losing my lunch, not from the low-brow hijinx, but instead from the motion sickness, I've already put my pre-order shill buybuy slashvertisement in for the De-3D Cinema Glasses that ThinkGeek started selling today. I'm pretty sure that 3D movies are conspiracy between the Ginger Red-Head Conan Ginko , Dramamine, and Film industries to drive up ticket prices and dinner, so I hope these work half as well as advertised. And please note that ThinkGeek and Slashdot share corporate parentage overlords baby-sitters money-levers so if you got a problem with that, complain a whole bunch in the comments while loading our banner ads.

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Re:Missing Word Suggest

[nschubach]

Oh sure... take it out. Make me look like a bigger fool on this day of fools!

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP

[Jailbrekr]

April Fools is fun, but only when the JOKES ARE FUNNY.

Re:FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP

[GameMaster]

Not really. Most movies that run in 3d also have 2d showings at the same theater. It might be useful if your someone who gets sick watching 3d and you're stuck seeing the 3d version of a movie with a friend or friends but that probably isn't a large enough market to be worth it. When, and if, movie theaters ever convert over to 100% 3D, then this will become a much more viable product. I can see theaters having them on hand behind the counter for the small % of the population that can't handle 3D.

Re:FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP

[skids]

Or just grab two pairs from the ticket guy, and pop the right lens out of one and tape it in the left side of the other.

Re:Missing Word Suggest

[The Grim Reefer2]

You're missing a "wordsuggest" around "complain a whole bunch in the comments while loading banner our banner ads."

It must be April 1. That was actually fixed, and quickly even.

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[Dartz-IRL]

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Re:Adblockers

[MORB]

I'm enjoying the comments from behind my longer and bigger amount of karma that makes slashdot offers me the option to be rid of the ads intended for lesser beings.

Microedits have no save function.

[Technician]

Micro edits are broken. I edited it on the home page and then loaded the story. The edits reverted back to the defaults.

If the studios would back off on camera action and zoom while in 3D the results would be much better. If a movie like The Sound of Music was shot using existing camera distances the 3 D would have been worth it except the opening helicopter shot.

Monocle version?

[mcmonkey]

What about the folks who only have one eye?

Will there be a monocle version of the un-3-d-er?

I'd actually buy a pair

[Moof123]

More than once we've run into log jams where I don't want a massive headache, but others in the crowd really have their hearts on seeing the lame hollywood flop in 3D. A simple set of either RH only or LH only polarized lenses would be great!

Re:I'd actually buy a pair

[xded]

Go over at ThinkGeek and actually try to buy them. Even if it's an April fool, if they see enough interest they will turn them into an actual product (as happened before with the Tauntaun sleeping bag, iCADE, Personal Soundtrack T-Shirt, 8-bit Tie, etc...)

And there's no big science behind these glasses, so they should also land pretty quickly on-market.

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Re:I want these

[yakatz]

You can vote for it to be real at http://www.thinkgeek.com/42.shtml

Re:I want these

[tomhudson]

most of them want to see a movie in 3D I find myself putting on the glasses but covering one eye to avoid eyestrain.

So order the Double-D (DD) glasses. It turns every 3D movie into pr0n.

You'll still strain your eyes (etc.,), but I imagine you won't be complaining as much.

Make your own

[SJHillman]

Easy to make your own using two pairs of 3d glasses: http://technabob.com/blog/2011/02/10/turn-3d-glasses-into-2d-glasses-how/

Re:Make your own

[mcmonkey]

I love it!

Makes me want to break in to the local moving picture house, 'update' the 3-D glasses to be L-L or R-R, and break back out.

I wonder how any people will marvel at the visuals either due to the placebo effect or because they don't want to admit they don't see the '3-D'.

Re:Make your own

[snspdaarf]

So, the goggles really would do nothing?

Not an April Fool's joke.

[smcn]

Welcome to 2 months ago: http://www.tested.com/how-to-make-2d-glasses-for-3d-movies/47-279/

Speaking of 3D

[Locke2005]

xkcd is now xk3d

Re:The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useles

[jdpars]

This isn't real Latin. It's called Lorem Ipsum (the first two words) and it's a gibberish version of some stuff by Caesar. It's used in web development because it looks like English (same letter distribution and word length), but you can't actually read it.

I want good 3D!

[camperdave]

I want good 3D: Good Dialog
Good Drama
Good Dramatis Personae

In other words, memorable lines, engaging plot, and believable characters. Get those three down (along with good music) first. Then we'll talk.

Re:Sad

[Time_Ngler]

I can't say I'm thrilled at the prospect of closing one eye for 2 hours +, though.

Clipping 3D effects in the Z plane.

[John.P.Jones]

I wish they would only use stereoscopic 3D to simulate depth inside the frame not jump out so that the perceived depth of things further away was presented (depth > 0) but it didn't create the illusion of things (usually annoying things) jumping out of the screen (depth 0). Then the screen would be more like a window pane which is the right way to present 3d. This is what a real 'vector' display would be as opposed to a raster display (analogous to a vector field instead of a scalar field) in which each quantized pixel location determined not just a single color emitted in all directions but a quantized set of directions, each of which could be assigned an independent color. Of course the level of quantization necessary to achieve a realistic effect would probably make such a display impossible to build and the data stream necessary to feed that display would be immense (not to mention the technology needed to capture that data.)