RealD's smaller 3D glasses ensure your kids look a little less goofy in theaters
By Tim Stevens 
posted June 16th 2010 8:32AM
posted June 16th 2010 8:32AM
RealD Introduces Kid-Sized 3D Glasses
Available Nationwide in USA and Canada at Theatres Showing Disney●PIXAR's "Toy Story 3" Opening June 18th
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Just in time for summer movie season, RealD Inc. announced today that kid-sized RealD 3D glasses will be available nationwide in the USA and Canada beginning June 18th at theatres showing Disney●PIXAR's "Toy Story 3." Sealed in individual packaging to ensure they are sanitary and quality assured, kid-sized RealD 3D glasses are smaller versions of standard RealD 3D cinema glasses and designed to fit children 8 years of age and under. Kid-sized RealD 3D glasses are already available in select international markets.
"Kid-sized RealD 3D glasses are made to the same high-quality standards as adult size RealD glasses with each individually packaged in sealed bags ensuring they are clean and fresh for every moviegoer."
"The little ones will be able to comfortably enjoy the great summer movies coming out in RealD 3D wearing glasses designed just for them," said Joseph Peixoto, President of Worldwide Cinema at RealD. "Kid-sized RealD 3D glasses are made to the same high-quality standards as adult size RealD glasses with each individually packaged in sealed bags ensuring they are clean and fresh for every moviegoer."
Visit www.RealD.com/theatrelocator to find a RealD 3D-equipped theatre playing "Toy Story 3" and other family-friendly movies. You can help keep 3D green by dropping RealD 3D glasses into the collection bins located outside the theatre after the movie.
About RealD Inc.
RealD Inc. is a leading global licensor of stereoscopic (three-dimensional), or 3D, technologies. RealD's extensive intellectual property portfolio enables a premium 3D viewing experience in the theater, the home and elsewhere. RealD licenses its RealD Cinema Systems to motion picture exhibitors that show 3D motion pictures and alternative 3D content. RealD also provides its RealD Format, active and passive eyewear, and display and gaming technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers and content producers and distributors to enable the delivery and viewing of 3D content on high definition televisions, laptops and other displays. RealD's cutting-edge 3D technologies have been used for applications such as piloting the Mars Rover, heads-up displays for military jets and robotic medical procedures. For more information about RealD, please visit www.reald.com or www.facebook.com/RealD3D
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It's a shame. Gary always did look goofy seeing Avatar.
@bsparks Yeah? You think so? Try wearing them on top of thick rimmed glasses.
I want them to make a version where you get a sticker-like but still relatively rigid thin film. Attach them on your glasses, then take them off after.
@Outsider
you could try destroying a pair of clip on sunglasses and replacing the lens with polarizing filters.
@bsparks
3D hipsters!
@Outsider That's actually not a bad idea...those of us who wear glasses could still wear them. If we have to put them over our glasses, we look goofy no matter what! LOL
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@bsparks
Real3D sux in theater, wasn't impress at all. Go with Imax 3D since only like a $1 or $2 difference.
In Before, "If it uses glasses they blew it."
@Khalid Shahin So since I wear glasses, does that mean God blew it?
How about 3D contacts?
@orbitrod That's what I was thinking... I also wander if sun-contacts would work!
@orbitrod
Have fun with that...
@orbitrod How about a special form of laser eye surgery that gives you embedded chiral polarization? Glasses-free 3D!
@RincewindWiz Hah!
@RincewindWiz
I'd rather they were Active Shutter if I'm having it embedded in my eye..
@FORDY Active Shutter contact, implanted bluetooth headset, what else could you get done while under the knife?
@orbitrod This is how the Borg got started.
@erankin42 You will be assimilated. You will social network. You will be linked via bluetooth. You will carry an iPhone to assist us. You will see what we see.
They were available when I took the kids to see "How to Train Your Dragon" quite a while ago.
@RincewindWiz Ya, I think the last 2 or 3 shows we've taken they kids to that they've had these already. They do help with my youngest one a lot. The bigger ones didn't stay on too well.
@RincewindWiz
Exactly what I was thinking. I have a few of these in a junk drawer.
@RincewindWiz Same here, The theatre showing "Dragon" had these as well.
@RincewindWiz these were supposed to be available when we went to the National Families Week preview of the latest Shrek film at Vue - except the cinema had run out of the kids size and only gave us adult ones making it hard for my 6 year old to keep them on. Still she looked a bit like Roy Orbison so it wasn't all bad ;)
This is cool, even though the normal ones looked like aviators on my son.
Those look almost as good as Jason Moroney's D&G glasses!
If I buy a pair of Sony-branded RealD glasses to go with a 3D TV, will I be able to take them to the theater and use them? I guess there's not much point if the theater will be handing out glasses for free - other than hygiene...
@Carney No, all the LCD/Plasma home 3D TVs use active shutter glasses, while the RealD projection system uses polarized images and lenses to keep the glasses cheap (instead of $100).
And if anyone's that concerned about the glasses being clean, keep a pair and clean them at home.
How about some bigger ones that fit over glasses and you dont see around the edges?
i'd need some bigger ones.... (i know... that's what she said..)
I don't get it, this is no news.
Over here in the Netherlands, I work at a movie theater and we've been handing out these glasses since october of last year! Our RealD glasses are imported from the UK, so I don't know if this is an European affair or you're just being downplayed, but this is old news.
This actually works out well. I was planning on going to the movies on Sunday to see Toy Story 3 with my son. I wanted to see a non-3d version (I'm not sure how my 3 year old with do with glasses), but unfortunately the theater only has 2 non-3D shows that day (compared to 5 3d shows). I'm still not sure he will keep the glasses on, but at least the smaller glasses should be more comfortable.
Is that Ray-Ban Wayfarers?
We had a single box of these delivered to the cinema I used to work at in the UK, at the end of last summer I believe. Though we were told to issue them sparingly as we wouldn't be able to get more in "for yonks".
How about bigger ones for us who wear regular glasses underneath?
I've often wondered how we the other glasses work for kids/those with small heads. Mine is fairly large and the glasses seem big on me.
Also, seconding a pair for those with regular glasses. Wraparounds would kick ass.
I love how Engadget can never talk about 3D glasses without using the word "goofy". It just goes to show how superficial the 3D haters are, especially when everyone will be in a darkened theatre and everyone is *SUPPOSED* to be looking at the screen instead of each other.
The haters are all just a bunch of shallow elitists.
In Australia, they charge you $1 for a pair. You can save the money by reusing the glasses.
"RealD's smaller 3D glasses ensure your kids look a little less goofy in theaters"
No. It won't.
@Releaux - Why not? Have your kids all got massive heads?
@krs360 If I had kids, I'm sure they would have massive heads. No, my comment is simply that nobody can look cool with 3D glasses on. Except maybe Johnny Depp.
@Releaux : Funny, I thought the whole thing was about watching the damned movie, not being "cool".
Shallow elitists...
And yet, still no way to wear them over our normal glasses. Just hold them up with your hand during a movie.
Guarantee- We will shortly look back on the current state of the 3D experience as one of the dopiest states in modern technology.
Hey, is that Hit Girl behind those glasse (o_o?)
Less goofy?! Jezus Christ! Where do you get your fashion sense? At Macy's?
Hmm, I work at a movie theater. We've had these glasses since at least Alice in Wonderland, possibly even Avatar.
She still looks goofy
@Chocobo
Yeah, I've never heard anyone say "You make those 3D glasses look good".
Still uncomfortable.... 3DS FTW!
Yes, keep the skanky peepers away from our kids!