3D Video Glasses

With the 3d craze reaching new heights of popularity, many more people are trying to find ways to incorporate it into their home entertainment. They’ve gone to 3d films and enjoyed the wonderful spectacle the new technology brings to that movie, but want to have their video games or television shows possess that special, immersive quality. There are, of course, regular 3d glasses like the kind you use in the theater, but 3d video glasses are a more in-depth, advanced way to give your home entertainment the stereoscopic treatment. The following outlines the way in which 3d as a concept works, and how 3d video glasses use that to provide eye-popping images.

In a nutshell, the phenomenon of binocular vision is the primary concept behind 3d technology. Your ability to perceive depth and distance between objects is due to the fact that your eyes are set about 2 inches apart from each other. As a result, when you focus on an object, you’re seeing it from two different angles. Your brain then takes the information that it gets from both eyes and provides an image that calculates the distances between you and the object in question, as well as its spacial relation to other objects in your view.

When you’re viewing a film or movie, that image is 2 dimensional, so even though you’re seeing it with both eyes, it’s still a flat surface, so there’s no real sense of depth to perceive. However, with the help of 3d technology, there are ways to simulate that sense of distance and three-dimensionality, in order to fool your eyes into perceiving two distinct images with each eye the same way it does when viewing normal objects.

The way this works with most types of 3d video is that, when watching a 3d movie in a theater, for example, there are two projectors transmitting a different image from a different angle, just like when your eyes look at an object. However, this results in the two images being overlaid on each other, making the image blurry and still two dimensional to the naked eye. With 3d glasses, however, each lens filters out one of the images, making each of your eyes see only one image. This will give you the perception of seeing a three-dimensional object, just like with normal sight.

With 3d video glasses, the technology works quite differently. Instead of you viewing a screen through the glasses, the screen is on the glasses themselves. Due to the equipment involved in having basically two small television screens on the glasses, 3d video glasses tend to be bulkier than most 3d glasses. However, you can get a more immersive 3d experience, because the goggles prevent you from seeing anything else besides the projected image. The same stereoscopic technology applies to 3d video glasses, but on a much smaller and more immediate scale, making it seem like you’re truly in the world of the film or movie. A lot of virtual video game technology in the mid to late 90s used this to achieve a more realistic gaming experience.

Therefore, when considering the possibilities of giving your home entertainment the 3d treatment, you should consider 3d video glasses, especially if you want it to be a one-on-one experience, and you’re not watching it with anyone else. In terms of the quality of the 3d technology, and the immersion inherent in 3d video glasses, you can be sure that it is the ideal option for you. Keep in mind, however, that they can be very expensive compared to other 3d glasses, since they carry the entire system with them.