I ve been exploring 3d photography lately and also enjoy watching 3d movies. I dont have a 3dtv (yet) so I ve tried all other techniques, parallel, crosseyed, VR (Google cardboad) and anaglyph.
Apr 28, 2012 - In its latest iteration, KMPlayer introduced 3D features. With a 3D image that you can use regular anaglyph 3D glasses (red and blue).
The easier for most people to view in 3d is of course anaglyph and the most popular is the standard RED/CYAN format which allows some colour to be visible in the final photo and is relatively comfortable especially in the dubois method (Developed by Eric Dubois) that minimizes retinal rivalry. What about the most recent anaglyph formats like: GREEN/MAGENTA (also marketed as trioscopics): A few movies were released with this format (Coraline, My bloody valentine) and some games (Batman arkham asylum). Wikipedia says that it allows more colour through, especially orange than the classic R/C. AMBER/BLUE (or yellow/blue, patented as Colorcode 3d): They tried a lot to promote this format as the new anaglyph standard during a superbowl game (in 2009 I think) with an episode of chuck and a couple of movie trailer. The company claims that left amber filter allows almost all color information to be viewed. People say that its a lot darker because of the dark blue right filter. Personally I have only tried the classic R/C glasses but have been experimenting with BINO player and found the following interesing results.
The half-colour view with green/magenta glasses offers amazing colours. Very warm but I dont really know if you can actually see them through the glasses? The dubois view is actually the most comfortable and I have found that the colours you see on screen without glasses are almost exacly the colours you see with the glasses on. If thats the case then with the Amber/Yellow format seen with dubois the image is almost similar to the original.
I have ordered a pair of Amber/Blue to try myself. I include a comparison image i made with different versions rendered in the free software Bino player. Any thoughts guys? Is any of the newer formats really superior or just cash grab attempts? Simon Zeev wrote: To me, the best way to see 3d stereoscopic pictures on the computer monitor is cross eyes. For people that cannot see this way I was making gray anaglyphs red/cyan.
Aspen plus version. I try magenta/green and did not work for me. Now I have a 3DTV and I make only cross eyes pictures to view on the computer's monitor and MPO files to view on TV. I saw cross eyes on the monitor and is not an easy task, but possible. I recommend to get used to cross eyes until you will get a 3DTV.
I got no problem with cross eyes technique. I even learned parallel viewing which is quite comfortable looking pictures on a phone that way! Still for extended periods of 3d watching anaglyph is a better choice. Like if you want to watch a full movie. Thats why I am asking if any other anaglyph method is superior to classic red/cyan or are just clever marketing. I plan to invest in a 3dtv soon.