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http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-home-theater-for-under-a-grand/
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-home-theater-for-under-a-grand/
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-home-theater-for-under-a-grand/
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-home-theater-for-under-a-grand/
Alright once you have the hardware up and running try opening a good 3D still image one can be found here: http://mtbs3d.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10002/Crysis_%230083.jpg this image is reversed for cross-eyed viewing so the left is on the right and vice verse. If you have a 3D blu-ray disc laying around you can watch it too. you need AnyDVD HD it is a driver that decrypts blu-rays on the fly and is pretty awesome. you will navigate to your BD drive letter and <drive>:\BDMV\STREAM\SSIF\<probably the largest xxxxx.ssif file> sometimes the ssif files will be split up. You can open these with stereoplayer.
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Jun 13, 2012. 4:57 PM REPLY
imprune says:
Good job! did something similar in a CAVE environment with rear projection screens
if doing a 2lcd projector setup....get hold of some quarter wave plate retarders (circular polarisers) if the image at the projector lens is small enough you might be able to use a set of lenses from a pair of real d glasses. Better yet is to buy a right hand and left hand quarter wave plate on its own. These filters do not have the linear filters attached and should look like a single thickness of plastic/glass. sandwiched ones will be 2 or more glued together. internal reflection is going to kill your light level with these types of filters whereas the single quarter wave plates will be better for this. we used 2 single wave plates on 2 lcd projectors and there was no noticeable colour shift. the only difference was a loss in light level that actually wasnt bad and was to be expected. Also, iZ3D and a quad buffered graphics card are your friends if you want to try 3D gaming with this setup (Crysis in 3D on a 7 metre tall picture was epic! :-)
tinker234 says:
is there a way to get a 3d apernance all around
infectus says:
Apr 5, 2012. 1:21 PM REPLY not sure exactly what you mean, but if you are talking wrap-around or ultra-wide. There are ways to stitch multiple projectors together to increase the image area, there are also special fish-eye and anamorphic lenses you can use. Does this help?
tinker234 says:
yes i ment aimage you can see on all sides that appers to be a hologram
rsloane says:
Dec 13, 2011. 9:49 AM REPLY Wow, that is a slick setup. So why can you only use DLP, I guess I'm not sure I understand what the significance of having non-polarized light output if you are using a polarizing filter on the projector. Obviously my familiarity with polarization is not exactly comprehensive, especially in this application, but what happens if you DO use lcd or 3lcd projectors with polarized light output. would using a silver screen designed for polarized projection remedy this issue? I have seen similar setups to yours done with lcd type projectors with the polarizing film and the whole nine yards. Is there something I am missing. Thanks for the info.
infectus says:
Great question.
The reason LCD is not preferred is because it's light output is already polarized. You may be thinking that this could be advantageous, but for the most part it is a hindrance. google StereoBright for more info, but in short: this method only works with LCD and it preserves more light output. the problem is that it ghosts pretty bad and is highly proprietary, 3dtv.at StereoPlayer is the only program i know of that can drive it. An LCD projector normally has blue and red linearly polarized in one direction and green is the opposite (rotated 90 degrees). unless you rotate your polarizers exactly between the two, you will get either green or magenta color shift. It is possible to use a stack of 3 quarter wave retarder filters to kill most of the polarization, but these may still need a lot of tweaking to eliminate color shift. You will get the same problem with circular polarizers as well, simply because they are just a quarter wave and linear filter sandwiched together and the quarter wave side must face the screen (thats why circular filters are the only filters you'll ever need, they can work either with IMAX or RealD by flipping them). The silver screen is a very simple device and will do nothing more than preserve and reflect whatever polarization you throw at. Here's a fun little story, I went to an IMAX theater to see avatar and was in my seat early during the typical theater informational and advertising slideshow that was being done from a small LCD pre-show projector, because this was an IMAX 3D theater the screen had to be silver, so I threw on my glasses and saw the pre-show in magenta for one eye and green in the other. LCD's are not impossible to use, but DLP gives you maximum flexibility. If you are planning on building a 3D home theater and have not yet purchased projectors I would strongly recommend going with DLP and double the brightness of what you would normally buy for a 2D setup. also, make sure that your projectors are matched in every way possible, even down to the date of manufacture, color and especially brightness disparities will be very irritating to the eyes. Hope this helps.
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