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Will the Avatar 3D Glasses Work at Home?
January 14, 2010
Will the Avatar 3D Glasses Work at Home?
Since a lot of people have gone to see Jame’s Cameron’s record-breaking blockbuster, Avatar in 3D we were bound to get the following questions from our geek bretheren:
Will the 3D glasses the movie theaters give you when you go to see Avatar in 3D work at home?
Sorry, but no.
Will the glasses work when they release Avatar in 3D on DVD?
Nope.
But I kept the glasses instead of putting them in the recycle bin so I could see Avatar in 3D when I burn a copy from Netflix like I do all my DVDs! I’ll see it in 3D right?
A. Nyet.
B. Thanks for not recycling, dipwad.
C. The 3D glasses won’t work at home whether you own or illegally pirate DVDs. In other words, the glasses won’t work whether you’re moral or a scum-sucking weasel who’d sell his sister for an ice-cream cone, Mr. Burn N Return.
Now the reason the RealD 3D glasses that work at the movies don’t work at home is because your TV and monitor cannot project two different images at the same time and even if they could they cannot create a left and right image of different light polarizations which is required so the 3d glasses can work to create that amazing 3d image in your wittle geek head like they do when you saw Avatar in 3D at the movies.
For a longer-winded explanation please try this Answers.com post that tells the why of it all in greater detail. If you dare.
So did you see Avatar? In 2D or 3D? Did you keep the glasses thinking they’d work? How do you feel that when Avatar is no longer in the movies you’ll never see it in immersive 3D ever again? 
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But other than that, it still won't be the same without a 30' screen and theater sound.
Sounds good to us. Cool people recycle. 
When they do release it 3D from everything I've heard the monitor technology won't be there to get the REALD 3D glasses to work with the DVD release. However, the technology they're working on for monitors and TVs (way experimental vaporware for a few years) will be WAAAAY too freaking expensive but will NOT require glasses of any kind to see the 3D.
Will they work outside?
Yes chris, the 3D avatar glasses will make the outside world look 3D 
Current TV's can play the current "passive" glasses form of 3D where they simply put up a blurry image and the polarized glasses give you an old-fashioned 3D effect.
What the new sets coming out later this year (and previewed at CES this month) do is an "active" 3D that work in tandem with electronic glasses to rapidly interlace every other frame with the forward or back images and rapidly shutting off one eye or the other. This gives you a much more convincing 3D, and possibly a headache.
In short you'll need custom polarized glasses or those red/blue lenses for sets sets upcoming (RealD3D's won't work on any of them out now or in the future) or active electronic flickering glasses (that are prone to induce headaches and of course be expensive and break frequently) for future sets.
There's also an interesting announcement for those horrid flickering on/off expensive active lenses being developed here.
In short, it's not looking pretty for 3D at home for quite a while.
Be responsible geeks. Recycle. Word.
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