| Author | Message | ||
     justin Rating: N/A |
Can anyone tell me what type of 3-d glasses it requires? Thanks. | ||
| Greg Rating: N/A |
The "Fireworks" / ChromaDepth type. | ||
| Charles Rating: N/A |
I'd appreciate a comment from someone who has watched the series with the required glasses... Is the 3-D effect good enough to make a trip to the local Best Buy store for a pair worthwhile? The 2-D television image looks a bit strange because of the heavy use of bright red and bluish colors, apparently necessary for the 3-D effect. | ||
| Charles Rating: N/A |
Never mind -- I got the glasses, and the program looks worse in ChromaDepth 3-D than in 2-D! The stereoscopic effect occurs because the lenses spacially separate colors by wavelength. (Red is in the foreground, yellow at screen level, green a bit further back, blue the most distant.) This works for some CGI effects, but live video looks terrible because the image colors aren't arranged in proper order, and because most real-world objects (like human skin) are a mixture of colors. (Faces look blurred with the glasses for this reason. Much of the screen text is also blurred.) If VH1 wanted to show some reasonably good intermittent 3-D scenes in the series, they could have done better using the Pulfrich effect (as ABC did with the 1989 Super Bowl XXV half-time show). |
