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Question by meg: Can you watch stereoscopic 3D without a 3d TV?

There is a Xbox Live Arcade game called .. I think.. The Invisible Tiger. This game allows you to switch on Stereoscopic 3d if you have glasses. I also just read that there is a Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum that offers 3D gameplay with HDTV and Standard TV.

Is it possible to play games in stereoscopic 3d with glasses without buying a 3D ready TV?

Best answer:

Answer by Tony R
Your tv must have the hardware to display 3d images. The only universal 3d format is anaglyph that uses those glasses with two colors like red and cyan(a green-blue). That 3d format can be done on any color television because the right or left eye movie is tinted red and the the other movie tinted cyan. Then with the red and cayn glasses they block the color of the movie meant for the other eye. With the other two main 3d formats polarized and frame sequential your tv must be made to do them.

If you have tinted glasses that don’t require batteries those are polarized 3d glasses. The 2d movie only for the left eye must have counter clockwise polarized light waves, and the movie for the right eye must have clockwise polarized light waves. Then each lens of the glasses only lets the light wave through for that eye. To do this on a monitor screen all the even numbered horizontal row of pixels have to put out one polarized light wave, and all the odd numbered row of pixels sandwiched in between those have to put out the other polarized light wave. Then you just send each 2d movie to the correct lines. Youtube now has 3d options on some 3d videos. You just click on the tab below the video and you get different options like red and cyan, green and magenta for anaglyph glasses. Then there is row interleave which is the polarized format for 3d acer computers. Meaning the horizontal rows for left and right movies are interlaced or sandwiched in between each other. This one has two options in case you need the right eye movie to go to the odd or even numbered rows. I’ll put a link to a 3d youtube video that has the options and on interleave you can see how each movie is sent to every other horizontal line.

For frame sequential the right lens opens while the left lens closes and they do this back and forth very fast. Then when one lens is open the movie for that eye flashes on screen. You tv or monitor must have the hardware to switch between movies.

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