Fashion: put your 3D glasses on!

3D glasses, also called anaglyph glasses, are a type of glasses that can be used to give an otherwise two dimensional image, text or film three dimensional depth. 3D glasses are used mainly for entertainment, movies in particular, and to a lesser degree in science. The glasses themselves have two differently colored lenses, one in red and one in blue.

Seems with loads of new 3D movies hitting box offices like “Alice in Wonderland”, “Avatar”, and even a new “Beauty and the Beast” to be released in 2011, people are feeling rather inclined to wear their 3D glasses. 3D inspired fashion is causing quite a stir these days. So next time you go check out a 3D flick and slide on those specs feel confident that you don’t look as silly as you may feel, you’re actually being rather trendy.

With the boom in the 3D market, it’s only natural that the glasses needed to enjoy this technology would begin to emerge as an all-new category of desirable accessories.

See 3D film with 3D glasses

With the onset of 3D TV it is likely that we will all put on a pair of 3D glasses in the near future, but what do they do and why do we have to wear them to watch 3D TV?

There are many different types of 3D glasses. The most common 3D glasses (the ones with red and blue lenses) produce a 3-dimensional effect through a process known as anaglyph color filtering. There are various other types of 3D glasses, but they all work in the same manner; by tricking the brain into seeing a 3-dimensional image from a 2-dimensional source.

The reason you need to wear glasses to watch 3D is that a separate image needs to be sent to each eye, with the brain combining the two images into a single image with 3D characteristics. In other words, the 3D process actually fools your brain into thinking it is seeing a 3D image, so it creates one for you