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Used to fantasize about these being used to play local multiplayer without having to split the screen
Iirc Sony did this with the PS3 and their own PlayStation branded TV.
Sony patented this in 2010 to allow people to simultaneously watch two different videos on the same TV.
Yeah, Hank Green started making them after his wife got a headache watching a 3d movie: http://www.2d-glasses.com/
Ha, that’s actually awesome :D. Dang, maybe I even heard about that years ago, forgot about them and now thought I’d just have had a nice comic idea. Oh well, however the synapses fire, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Guess with your link I won’t do him any favour if I take this down as unoriginal, so I’ll just leave it up and consider it free advertisement for him.
/edit Also, I don’t think he came up with the idea of showing Frozen and Die Hard in the same cinema so you can enjoy a theater with your kid while avoiding Let It Go, so at least that part’s an original idea ;). Yeah, that’d require headphones.
Many places already offer headphone listening over a specialized radio broadcast iirc. So, it is still doable.
Tilting your head shouldn’t make a difference as ‘modern’ (as in the ones that cinemas started using fifteen years ago) 3D glasses use clockwise and anticlockwise circular polarisation filters, and obviously, turning something 90° doesn’t change whether it’s clockwise or anticlockwise. Other kinds of polarisation filters do care about being rotated, which is probably where the artist got the impression it applied to 3D glasses, but it would be dumb to try and use that kind as obviously, people tilt their heads.
Huh I guess I haven’t been to a 3d movie in quite some time. I definitely remember had tilting used to work
Wouldn’t it still look weird because the two images are offset in a different axis than your eyes?
It can make it look a bit weird (and be one of the things that makes people nauseous), but most people’s brains are good enough at figuring it out that it’s not a major problem. It wouldn’t make a difference to the situation in the comic, though, as in that frame, they’re talking about making both lenses match to pick between two 2D movies, so there’d be no offset anyway.
It’s a convoluted way of reinventing an eye patch.
You don’t need to obtain and install a polarized filter when you are only using that filter to block all light going to one eye. Tape a piece of black paper over one lens, ya dummy.
You the dummy. The modified glasses would make both eyes receive the same polarized light thus the same picture, not block the light.
You’re right!
Well, good thing this comic isn’t talking about blocking out all light to one eye. Why would you want to watch a movie with one eye blocked anyway? Sounds horrible.
