3D. The web is gearing up
Monday, January 11th, 2010Before Avatar and the mad 3D crazy that is sweeping the world, i went to see Up in 3D and was super impressed by it’s subtle and tasteful use of 3D. After watching the previews before the film and being surprised that there was so much 3D production going on i’ve started looking into the use of 3D on the web. If you’ve ever looked into it, you’ll know that it’s not easy to find any half decent examples around, those red/cyan glasses are pretty hard to use and they don’t work for everyone, not to mention that most of the examples on the web are from old SD content made in the 80’s. Given the current rapid trend, It now looks like YouTube is getting on board and this example is the best implementation that i’ve seen so far.
Click the video to view in HD on youtube.
The HD version is really good quality and the options to choose between any possible implementation of 3D colouration via the drop down caters for any possible combo of glasses and styles available to a standard computer screen. The option of ‘cross-eyed’ 3D is also pretty cool, so that just by crossing or squinting your eyes you may be able to achieve the effect without glasses. It didn’t work for me, but it’s a cute experiment.
Hopefully we keep experimenting with this colourised stop-gap approach while the world (and all of our content) get’s ready to upgrade all our screens again once proper polarised (or even native) 3d becomes available to consumer sets and monitors. Plasma/LCD/LED/HD/FULL HD/3D/ let’s hope it never stops.
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Oh, and you’ll need some red/cyan glasses to demo any of this stuff properly, the cross-eyed thing doesn’t really work (not for me anyway). Go get some glasses.