Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: YouTube, 3D, Google, Video | Themes: The Internet, Home Theater
Remember those amber and green glasses you got when you went to see a 3D movie back in the day? If you still have a pair lying around, break 'em out and check out the video below.
What you just saw is the result of one YouTube employee's 20 percent project. It's widely known that Google encourages staff members to use 20 percent of their time working on a side project.
A poster on the YouTube forums from an employee going by the name of YouTube Pete said, "I'm the developer working on the stereoscopic player as a 20% project. It's currently very early, hence the silly bugs like swapping the eyes for the anaglyph modes. A fix for this is in the works.”
What do you guys think? Unfortunately we haven't been able to watch it in anything but "cross-eyed" mode because we don't have the old-style 3D glasses. Enlighten us!
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Uhm, this is no amber and green glasses video...
Well, watching it "cross-eyed" gives a nice enough sense of depth.
Unfortunately I do not have the required glasses. Fun enough as something to pass some time though
Why don't youtube get the H.264 encoding down without breaking the FPS rate first then fool around with this.
You mean Green and red and no it didn't work.
You mean Green and red and no it didn't work.
Of course it did not. Here is what a red-green stereoscopic picture is like.
VERY different from the video.
I can see this video in 3D without glasses (just by crossing my eyes)!
On the down side my eyes are watering and I have a terrible headache.
Technology is so awesome. I can't wait for iHaveAHeadache 2.0
You have to go click on the vid to watch it at youtube for the red/green to appear.
Sorry guys. We were watching it on YouTube and switched it to cross-eyed mode because we had no glasses. If you're all retro and have the glasses, just click on the video to go to YouTube and there'll be a little drop-down menu under the video that will have a whole bunch of red/blue amber/green options.
It's very hard but you can focus with each eye to the corresponding part on the video (right eye on the right video and reverse.
It should give you some sense of depth (like poster number 2 mentioned).
But it's very hard, especially because the images are moving, and the video lagging makes it even harder.
That little video takesmy eyes a full 2 to 3 minutes to recover from!
I gave it a try with red/cyan glasses. Same old thing as any other red/cyan video uploads. The real benefit here is to stereoscopic video producers. In the past they've had to upload different versions for different viewer setups (i.e. one for red/cyan, one for amber/blue etc etc). Now they just need to upload the original left and right video channels and YouTube can do the rest for you. As such, if 3D home displays become more popular, YouTube could add direct support of those in the player.
Here's the video link with all the options in case you haven't found it yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j- [...] r_embedded