So it seems that YouTube has been experimenting with offering 3D videos over the past few days, but we've held off on letting you know just to make sure this wasn't some sort of one-day lab test. As you can see in the video there in the read link, 3D videos that are uploaded can now be shown in a variety of formats in order to suit a variety of viewing styles. Believe it or not, this little addition just made YouTube the most pervasive and most useful outlet for bringing 3D content into the home, blazing right on past Panasonic and an entire consortium devoted to making said concept a reality. And with all these 3D cameras and camcorders making their way out onto the market, we're guessing this may up being more than just a fad. We will say, however, that watching the video (posted past the break) sans the appropriate glasses is murder on your brain. Engage at your own risk.
go to the youtube page and pick the cross-eyed option. cross your eyes and try to get the images to line up in the middle. it's a little tricky, but after a little practice you can focus on the "middle" image, which will be 3D. no glasses required! just a little strain on you eyes, lol.
I tried it with amber/blue glasses and the left/right pictures were way off. Cross-eyed has always been my favorite though, you lose some screen real estate, but you don't need anything special and it looks the best imo.
The problem is that they are using the reverse cross eyed method which is nearly impossible to achieve. the two videos need to be switched around for it to be more effective.
You have to believe there'll be some sort of evolution in the way we watch videos and TV eventually. 3D is that. Problem is, using glasses is too inconvenient for it to be adopted, which is why there's tech coming out so you don't need glasses. If anyone is familiar with the cross-eyed method of viewing photos in 3D(which you can select from the youtube video), you'll see that what results can be truly impressive. That method works by crossing your eyes, until the two center images merge into a middle one. Check out this photograph for an example of how detailed 3D can make images look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/themusicoflife/2289885289/sizes/l/
3D is "so sweet now" because movie studios want it to be. Since the 50s, film has attempted to provide audiences with an experience they could not get from their TV sets. Hence the introduction in that decade of widescreen and color. Both of these technologies had existed decades before television, but it was only when TV became a competitive factor did Hollywood begin to exercise them as regular options. Likewise, stereoscopic systems have existed since at least the 1910s, but never caught on due to their pure novelty factor. Now that people can watch movies in their homes at visual quality near that of a film print and audio quality identical to the master, studios are once again hoping to leverage a new technology against falling ticket sales over the last decade (notice that the 3D glasses you get when you go see "Up" or what have you are labeled "RealD" in an attempt to differentiate the experience from consumer HD.) Studios are desperately trying to make 3D work this time around and indeed the implementation of the effect in 3D films has been far less obtrusive and more mature than past incarnations. Unfortunately for Hollywood, consumer tech has caught on to this and hence the rise of methods to view 3D in your home.
Red/Blue, Green/Blue, Pink/Green and some of the others just use a color mask. The Amber/Blue glasses are the ones that were used for the superbowl. They use an actual patented method that is supposed to make the colors more accurate than the old way.
The ones you get in the theater are polarized. Check wikipedia on that one. My brain can't handle a long explanation right now.
Polarisation filtering glasses work the same way colour-filtering ones do. Two pictures are shown in two polarisation states just like the red/blue method. Each eye on the glasses filters the light so you only see the image polarised in its way. Hence your eyes see two images, each from a slightly different perspective (just like when looking at real stuff), and your brain pieces it together to make 3D.
If anyone here goes to see Ice Age in 3D, check out the animals fur. It looks so fluffy and real I had to sit on my hands to stop myself stroking the air and looking like an idiot.
How do you get Youtube to think that this is a 3D file? You see, adding the &yt3d:enable=true to a random video does not showing up the 3D menu options (even if the video might or might not be in 3D). So is there a special URL where you can upload actual 3D videos or tell Youtube that your video is 3D and it should treat it as one? The "edit video" pages don't list me any such option, you see. So, what's the trick? Thx.
I figured out the trick. You just add the right TAGS to your video, e.g. yt3d:enable=true, yt3d:aspect=16:9, yt3d:left=0_0_1_0.5, yt3d:right=0_0.5_1_1 and Youtube will automatically show up the 3D menu box.
I picked up some free 3D glasses (green + magenta) at a Comcast kiosk in the mall a few weeks ago just because they were free. I haven't had any use for them untill I saw this post.
I swear some of those flowers looked like they were hanging over my keyboard, and the background is 15' away. This looks way better than the 3D B movies I remember as a kid.
I was presented with a drop down menu just like the in the image at the top of this post. Now that I've made my selection it seems to have disappeared.
Yep, choose the cross eyed mode and the simply cross your eyes and slowly bring them back to normal until you get a 3rd image in the center of the two frames.
How do the other non-colored-glasses options work?
Also, autostereoscopic tech is the best. No need for the stupid glasses..
They are for me =/ unless i'm watching a 12 year old shout his opinions using his new £10 web cam. In which case the quality is pretty crap (a long with the entertainment)
sucks. tried a few with the cross-eyed format. yes it's "3-d", but the difference from the closest object to the furthest object seems to be around 1cm or less. Not exactly 3d if you ask me.
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posted July 22nd 2009 6:16PM
thats pretty cool, shame i dont have any glasses just lying around ...
go to the youtube page and pick the cross-eyed option. cross your eyes and try to get the images to line up in the middle. it's a little tricky, but after a little practice you can focus on the "middle" image, which will be 3D. no glasses required! just a little strain on you eyes, lol.
i guess you don't need to go to the youtube page, engadget has it playing in cross-eyed on this page.
wow, thats neat, i still think 3d wont take off atall, but its hard to concentrate on that video
No, it's a shame youtube doesn't host any interesting content anymore.
meh !!! this is nothing .... call me when youporn.com or any of the others out there implement this thing ....
I guess but damn this guy's voice is annoying.
I just wrote a video shooting+editing+rendering tutorial on how to do Stereoscopic 3D videos: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2009/07/22/tutorial-stereoscopic-3d-with-sony-vegas/
The tutorial is using the Sony Vegas video editor as an example, but it's easily applied to other editors too if you know how to use them.
I tried it with amber/blue glasses and the left/right pictures were way off.
Cross-eyed has always been my favorite though, you lose some screen real estate, but you don't need anything special and it looks the best imo.
The problem is that they are using the reverse cross eyed method which is nearly impossible to achieve. the two videos need to be switched around for it to be more effective.
Why is 3D so sweet now? It's all pretty tacky to me.
Couldn't agree more. I can't understand why this is so amazing; it's the same re-hashed filter method used decades ago. Why is this cool?
Anything requiring glasses isn't *real* 3D.
And what's with the nerdy guy sitting on a couch? They have a 3D demo and that's the best they can throw together? WTF?
I've been wondering the same thing. When I was about 7, I thought this stuff was amazing. Now? Not so much.
You have to believe there'll be some sort of evolution in the way we watch videos and TV eventually. 3D is that. Problem is, using glasses is too inconvenient for it to be adopted, which is why there's tech coming out so you don't need glasses. If anyone is familiar with the cross-eyed method of viewing photos in 3D(which you can select from the youtube video), you'll see that what results can be truly impressive. That method works by crossing your eyes, until the two center images merge into a middle one. Check out this photograph for an example of how detailed 3D can make images look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/themusicoflife/2289885289/sizes/l/
Actually, this entire group has some amazing 3D images: http://www.flickr.com/groups/62553512@N00/pool/
In particular, I like this one, it really shows the depth you can get. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/3727995585_40648e0a42_b.jpg
Am I the only one who can't do these at all? I wear glasses does that affect it?
3D is "so sweet now" because movie studios want it to be. Since the 50s, film has attempted to provide audiences with an experience they could not get from their TV sets. Hence the introduction in that decade of widescreen and color. Both of these technologies had existed decades before television, but it was only when TV became a competitive factor did Hollywood begin to exercise them as regular options. Likewise, stereoscopic systems have existed since at least the 1910s, but never caught on due to their pure novelty factor. Now that people can watch movies in their homes at visual quality near that of a film print and audio quality identical to the master, studios are once again hoping to leverage a new technology against falling ticket sales over the last decade (notice that the 3D glasses you get when you go see "Up" or what have you are labeled "RealD" in an attempt to differentiate the experience from consumer HD.) Studios are desperately trying to make 3D work this time around and indeed the implementation of the effect in 3D films has been far less obtrusive and more mature than past incarnations. Unfortunately for Hollywood, consumer tech has caught on to this and hence the rise of methods to view 3D in your home.
Is there some technical difference between each set of colored glasses?
Yes, they absorb/transmit light of different wavelengths differently...
Red/Blue, Green/Blue, Pink/Green and some of the others just use a color mask. The Amber/Blue glasses are the ones that were used for the superbowl. They use an actual patented method that is supposed to make the colors more accurate than the old way.
The ones you get in the theater are polarized. Check wikipedia on that one. My brain can't handle a long explanation right now.
Wow awesome, gonna make some red/blue glasses to watch that.
That was supposed to have been a reply to Brian. Methinks Engadget's comments system is cross-eyed...
Polarisation filtering glasses work the same way colour-filtering ones do. Two pictures are shown in two polarisation states just like the red/blue method. Each eye on the glasses filters the light so you only see the image polarised in its way. Hence your eyes see two images, each from a slightly different perspective (just like when looking at real stuff), and your brain pieces it together to make 3D.
If anyone here goes to see Ice Age in 3D, check out the animals fur. It looks so fluffy and real I had to sit on my hands to stop myself stroking the air and looking like an idiot.
yesss!! I made it to engadget!!! 3d rulez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Monoscopers can roll over In their graves!
Now where's the 3D porn... I kid, I kid.
no you don't. and it's out there, trust me.
Check out this video for a 3D test in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GcLW0g_c1s&fmt=22&yt3d:enable=true
You need to add the yt3d:enable=true to get the 3d viewing options on that one...
How do you get Youtube to think that this is a 3D file? You see, adding the &yt3d:enable=true to a random video does not showing up the 3D menu options (even if the video might or might not be in 3D). So is there a special URL where you can upload actual 3D videos or tell Youtube that your video is 3D and it should treat it as one? The "edit video" pages don't list me any such option, you see. So, what's the trick? Thx.
I figured out the trick. You just add the right TAGS to your video, e.g. yt3d:enable=true, yt3d:aspect=16:9, yt3d:left=0_0_1_0.5, yt3d:right=0_0.5_1_1 and Youtube will automatically show up the 3D menu box.
This is very cool!
I picked up some free 3D glasses (green + magenta) at a Comcast kiosk in the mall a few weeks ago just because they were free. I haven't had any use for them untill I saw this post.
I swear some of those flowers looked like they were hanging over my keyboard, and the background is 15' away. This looks way better than the 3D B movies I remember as a kid.
@Eugenia:
I was presented with a drop down menu just like the in the image at the top of this post. Now that I've made my selection it seems to have disappeared.
Now I understand... I'm a little slow today
Instructions link (forum) on how to do it : http://mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=3874
Where can I get a pair of 3d glasses to test this out?
FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!
the cross eyed works pretty well actually. You just have to relax after you get the video in the center and your eyes will focus.
Werd... no need for glasses when using this method. Takes a little practice though (no more than with those scrambled pictures.)
The real question, however, is, where are the 3D boobs?!
When I cross-eyed look I get inverted 3D (the guy's arms are behind him...) - this is a pie-eye pair...and I can't do that.
Yep, choose the cross eyed mode and the simply cross your eyes and slowly bring them back to normal until you get a 3rd image in the center of the two frames.
How do the other non-colored-glasses options work?
Also, autostereoscopic tech is the best. No need for the stupid glasses..
Whoa, that's freaky...
will real 3d glasses work?
Nope
didn't you post the exact same thing under a different account yesterday? Engadget, get this person an IP ban, please.
Where's my polarised option :p
if you get an iz3d + vista you will be able to view em in glorious polarized 3d straight from youtube :)
This is great!! I was thinking of shooting some 3D experimental videos, and this could just make it so much better!
Sex vids? Need help from a monkey?
because youtube has such awesome quality videos??
They are for me =/ unless i'm watching a 12 year old shout his opinions using his new £10 web cam. In which case the quality is pretty crap (a long with the entertainment)
Please die in a car fire.
Thank you,
Everyone
sucks. tried a few with the cross-eyed format. yes it's "3-d", but the difference from the closest object to the furthest object seems to be around 1cm or less. Not exactly 3d if you ask me.