Not sure about any standard broadcasts of 3D (assuming) for use with LCD goggles here in the USA, but the short bit I saw on TV did NOT require any sort of glasses -
NO to the Red / Blue type
NO to the LCD goggles
NO to some other 'passive' type similar to the Red / Blue stiff paper type but with greyish transmittance of light.
I think one episode of "3rd Rock From the Sun" had an episode or two that used the Grey-lensed paper type.
What I saw looked like you were looking at everything as if it were submerged in water WRT the wavy light bending effect. Still incredibly cool.
Ahhh, thank you good sir for posting part of an answer to my as-yet-unasked question(s).
I 'live' in the usa, in the later 1970s on a show called (I think) "Real People" - they had a demonstration of 3D Television over the regular airwaves. This happened somewhere between 1976 and 1980 - I'm guessing it was right around 1978. Anyhow - I was around 10 years old then, I don't recall if my parents saw this or not - I watched more TV than they did and was too damn amazed at seeing our old Zenith display 3-freakin-D video over standard antenna signals!!!
This fellow - can't remember his name - MIGHT have been from around Oz - developed a new kind of video camera that could record 3D. I think it had to record the signal onto a different (likely) tape medium. They didn't show the video for very long - perhaps 30 seconds to a minute. The picture (IIRC) was Black and White - but all ripply or wavy looking - akin to how a hot road will diffract light if you look across it in the distance.
All I remember of the video was that there were some kids playing frisbee in a park. The picture sort of leapt out of the screen (remember - no glasses) - the frisbee would arc around a tree toward you. They didn't bother trying any of the old monster movie 3D scare tricks - just a demo of the technology. I never heard anything definite about this since then with one possible exception.
The reason I think the guy might have been from Australia / New Zealand / etc. is that subsequent to the 3D TV broadcast, a few years later I read that a 3D TV system had been developed - but the inventor (an aussie or kiwi) was serving a life sentence for going all stabby on his wife.
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- NO to the Red / Blue type
- NO to the LCD goggles
- NO to some other 'passive' type similar to the Red / Blue stiff paper type but with greyish transmittance of light.
What I saw looked like you were looking at everything as if it were submerged in water WRT the wavy light bending effect. Still incredibly cool.I think one episode of "3rd Rock From the Sun" had an episode or two that used the Grey-lensed paper type.
Ahhh, thank you good sir for posting part of an answer to my as-yet-unasked question(s).
I 'live' in the usa, in the later 1970s on a show called (I think) "Real People" - they had a demonstration of 3D Television over the regular airwaves. This happened somewhere between 1976 and 1980 - I'm guessing it was right around 1978. Anyhow - I was around 10 years old then, I don't recall if my parents saw this or not - I watched more TV than they did and was too damn amazed at seeing our old Zenith display 3-freakin-D video over standard antenna signals!!!
This fellow - can't remember his name - MIGHT have been from around Oz - developed a new kind of video camera that could record 3D. I think it had to record the signal onto a different (likely) tape medium. They didn't show the video for very long - perhaps 30 seconds to a minute. The picture (IIRC) was Black and White - but all ripply or wavy looking - akin to how a hot road will diffract light if you look across it in the distance.
All I remember of the video was that there were some kids playing frisbee in a park. The picture sort of leapt out of the screen (remember - no glasses) - the frisbee would arc around a tree toward you. They didn't bother trying any of the old monster movie 3D scare tricks - just a demo of the technology. I never heard anything definite about this since then with one possible exception.
The reason I think the guy might have been from Australia / New Zealand / etc. is that subsequent to the 3D TV broadcast, a few years later I read that a 3D TV system had been developed - but the inventor (an aussie or kiwi) was serving a life sentence for going all stabby on his wife.
Any further info is appreciated.
Eric