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Originally Posted by The Heron
3D is such a scam, the theaters push it because the get better profit margins with it but if you really look at it imo it sucks. I don't get any big hardon when I watch 3d stuff, actually the opposite I've yet to be impressed and mostly just feel stupid wearing the glasses.
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I sort of agree with this statement and I worked with 3D Technology more than 30 years ago so I do have some experience .
In the UK while working towards my PHD in Advance Laser Technology I worked for a company that produced 3D still advertising using lenticular screens ( no glasses needed ) The 3D effect was amazing with no side effects for viewers with epilepsy. After 3 years we managed to make images move within the still picture, using just a plastic lenticular screen glued to the picture. Sadly the company i worked for lost it's funding just as we started to make projectable 3D videos (No glasses required ) I still have the worlds first 3D naked model that i shot around 1972 ( maybe worth a cool million on ebay ?
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Avatar was a good film but in my opinion the so called 3D effects did nothing to enhance it and im sure it would have been a success without. The 3D Effect in "Clash" ( I worked on the original with Ray Harryhausen) was better than Avatar but still not mind blowing. If you guys want to see good 3D take a look at Samsungs new 3D TV's, watch one of Pixars monsters movies, the effects are truly out of this world, a thousand times better than the theater version of 3D. You still have to use glasses but these are not the normal red green cheap crap, these use a more advance shutter technology, but you have to see the results and judge for yourself.
Samsungs technology is supposed to be able to turn other movies into 3D, I dont know how true or effective it is but that would mean any std video would be viewable as a 3D experience, so all porn on the web now could be viewed as 3D using their TV's without us, the producer paying out $$$$$ for special equipment ?