At first I thought this was a joke, but it appears to be legit, and I might invest in a pair myself, seeing as Hollywood seems hell-bent on force-feeding 3-D upon us.
A company has come up with 2-D glasses. It sounds like a simple concept - the lenses filter out one of the two images projected to create 3-D, leaving a standard 2-D image. Don't know if anything happens with the color (just as 3-D makes colors dull, would eliminating one of the image streams cause, say, red or green to flood the image?), or if it works with all forms of 3-D projection (including 3-D TVs) - I haven't read the website in detail so maybe they cover this - but for those of us who can't comfortably enjoy 3-D or simply don't like it, but who can't just "turn off the color"* (like those who oppose colorization of black and white films for TV and DVD are encouraged to do), it's an option.
Mind you, it's STILL a pair of glasses that have to be worn over your own glasses if you're four-eyed like me. But it's a start...and according to the website they've got a growing list of endorsers, including Time Magazine.
http://www.2d-glasses.com/
Score one for the Luddites.
Alex
* I've gotten mixed messages as to whether one can actually turn off the 3-D on a 3-D set and watch a film in regular 2-D if it's been mastered as 3-D, so I'm keeping 3DTV in this generalization too.
A company has come up with 2-D glasses. It sounds like a simple concept - the lenses filter out one of the two images projected to create 3-D, leaving a standard 2-D image. Don't know if anything happens with the color (just as 3-D makes colors dull, would eliminating one of the image streams cause, say, red or green to flood the image?), or if it works with all forms of 3-D projection (including 3-D TVs) - I haven't read the website in detail so maybe they cover this - but for those of us who can't comfortably enjoy 3-D or simply don't like it, but who can't just "turn off the color"* (like those who oppose colorization of black and white films for TV and DVD are encouraged to do), it's an option.
Mind you, it's STILL a pair of glasses that have to be worn over your own glasses if you're four-eyed like me. But it's a start...and according to the website they've got a growing list of endorsers, including Time Magazine.
http://www.2d-glasses.com/
Score one for the Luddites.
Alex
* I've gotten mixed messages as to whether one can actually turn off the 3-D on a 3-D set and watch a film in regular 2-D if it's been mastered as 3-D, so I'm keeping 3DTV in this generalization too.
