DIY RealD 3D home cinema playing video! Video

Here's a small clip showing a movie actually playing on my home cinema.
I use two projectors each equipped with the filter from one of the eyes of a pair of RealD 3D glasses. (Bought at the cinema.) You mount the filters as if the projector is wearing the glasses. You also need a program that can read a blue-ray or dvd with a stereo movie on it. You can't just use a regular movie. 3D can't be created from a single 2D movie so don't bother asking...

Update:
I am getting a lot of video-replys from people trying to duplicate this in different ways. I need to clarify a few points...

1. I use two projectors

2. The projectors are showing a DIFFERENT version of the film designed for tha eye their filter matches.

3. The source of the video is a blu-ray with a frame-progressive 3D version of the movie. This means that it contains both versions interleaved so that it would play on a single projector or TV and you'd need shutter-glasses to view it.

4. This was ment as a demonstration of home-use. It shows that indeed the image seen in left and right filter is different.

5. The 3D move was split into two streams. One for each eye.

6. The application used to play back the two streams is called Stereoscopic Player and the demo allows you to try it out for 5 minutes each time you start it.

7. You NEED a silver screen. A gray or white one will not work well as the light is absorbed and retransmitted. This ruins the polarization so the images blend. I painted my screen on a MDF-board using acrylic silver paint and a roller. (Remember to prime twice first and sand smooth!)

8. For those who wonder how light can be circularly polarized I recommend wikipedia. Read the article on circular polarization. It's a headache but it IS real...

9. Recording your own 3D content is EASY and you only need two cameras spaced a bit apart. Tilt them slightly towards a common focus point (point of convergence) and make this point close to the object of interest so people will be able to focus on it without getting a headache.

10. NO you do not need to use any filters on the cameras when you film. You use the filters when you project the movie(s) to polarize the light so that the RealD-3D glasses can seperate the images again for your eyes.

11. The paint I used is called Liquitex Acrylic Basics Matt Silver.

how do you get the ...
how do you get the 2 projectors to? play the movie at the same time what do you need???? thanks

@Rarshaiz Think ...
@Rarshaiz Think before you rant. Firstly this was done while the only 3D? projectors were using double framerate alternating images requiring active glasses. Secondly, there is a patent on single projector with polarized 3D held by a chinese or japanese and it is blatantly obvious but nontheless a patent. This limits the manufacturers making such projectors. Further more, this was a demonstration that it was possible to set up a passive glasses 3D at home compatible with cinema glasses.

@TheTigerunleashed ...
@TheTigerunleashed ma bad thought it would work tryed it with? other youtube clips and its works but no this one.

well this is nice ...
well this is nice however things to consider here... 2 projectors even cheep models are $500 each. You can just buy a 3d projector for 1000+ also if you blow a bulb in either one of them 2 projectors or even both you looking at 2 x the expense in the long run this solution is more costly then to just do it the right way from the get? go.

caraa vc ganhou? o ...
caraa vc ganhou? o premio nobel de tonto!!!!

@djdiligence Dude, ...
@djdiligence Dude, of course it doesn't work! You're not using a? 3D monitor :)

Dude cheers for ...
Dude cheers for doing this I work at the? cinemas and understand fully how the RealD projectors work. I was thinking about trying it out but the polarised lenses are so expensive. I see you used the glasses lenses to polarise the light, don't the lenses melt after a while?

read? the ...
read? the description...its cool

@scar259 .......... ...
@scar259 ............... same here? :p

@DJTempo2k7? LOL. ...
@DJTempo2k7? LOL. True. English is not my native language, but I try...

@TheTigerunleashed ...
@TheTigerunleashed I want you to read the other comments and then reply. I am wondering if I need to? add a 13'th point on this.

I have real D 3D ...
I have real D 3D glasses but my glasses work in the theaters not on? this video

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@1kreature price? ...
@1kreature price? or prize ??

WOW MY EYES HURT? ...
WOW MY EYES HURT? ALREADY

Why so many ...
Why so many dislikes ? What he write and show in wideo is nothing new or? unreal.

@1kreature aah.. i ...
@1kreature aah.. i saw? that film but i don't remember that scene ^^ thx

@djdiligence ...
@djdiligence Congratulations, you win the? price for stupidity.

@SeirenYeah Journey ...
@SeirenYeah Journey to? the center of the earth, as explained earlier in the comments.

thats bulls**t ...
thats bulls**t cause? av got the same 3d glasses on and no change.

whats the? ...
whats the? filmtitel???

@1kreature lol. ...
@1kreature lol. you're right . just look at all the idiots who down rated the video just cause they're too retarded to understand that 3d can be quite cheap...2 old projectors 300X2 euros, cheap polarisation with 1 euros lens from cinema glasses, and tridef or iz3d driver. so? have you tryed iz3d driver ? or tridef ( ddd ) ?

@lvanhorn2 why ...
@lvanhorn2 why exactly is it only stupid people enjoy 3d? thats quite a stupid comment to make, 3d is one of the biggest things to hit the movie and games industry in? quite some time. Have you even tried 3d gaming on a projector with the likes of battlefield 3? no? didnt think so

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@iGaRaai90 Yes you ...
@iGaRaai90 Yes you can. Infact the blatantly obvious solution of adding two sets of region to the colorwheel, one for each polarization, has even been patented. A single projector can then alternate between the two images. There is another approach though. Using two dlp chips and joining the images optically. This second approach would allow both images to be displayed with full frequency and thus also? have a higher intensity.

stupid question, ...
stupid question, well intelligent compared to others being asked here, can you get the same effect from a single projector that rapidly alternates between the different angels with minimal flicker, each also? alternating polarization? can it done?

@1kreature I got ...
@1kreature I got the impression that I needed purchase a nvidia video card and nvidia software to transmit to my 3dtv. I said WTF I have to buy more stuff. So I just bought a dvi to hdmi splitter to transmit? to my tv and opened up nba2k12 and what do you know it worked. Next is to get some 3d blue ray movies to rip to see if that is going to work on my tv and my regular monitor. Just kinda urked with Nvidia trying to pull a fast one by making the consumer think they need their hardware to get 3d

@1kreature No it's ...
@1kreature No it's a good job man.we? need people like you exploring what can or cant be done. I bought a 3d tv and actually connected my pc to it. I have a simple pc that has a onboard ati 4200 video card and wanted to display some 3d content on my tv did some research and found out It couldn't be done with the right hardware.

@1kreature look I ...
@1kreature look I may of been a bit stupid for some time here? but I have a 3D TV now and these glasses dont work on mine either! So it aint so bad

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