As someone who has worked in projection for quite some time now, the vast majority of movie theaters don't use dual projector setups to screen 3D content, they actually use a single projector with a polarizing screen placed in front of the lens. This is done for a number of reasons, primarily cost, but it also comes with a heap of downsides including severe brightness reduction and also flattening of the colours. 3D fell out of fashion both because it was somewhat gimmicky, outside of standout titles like Avatar, most films used it poorly (looking at you bad Marvel 3D conversions). It also fell out of fashion due to the lack of consumer interest. Whilst the audience might not be able to immediately notice and describe the downsides, they knew that it wasn't as visually impressive as they remembered (due to the colour and brightness constraints). Dual projector setups are almost always superior for projecting 3D content. It's a shame that they fell out of fashion. This DIY equivalent is awesome and it's nice to see a little more interest in projection!
@@LinusTechTips I think a big screw up was not waiting till 4k as that was just coming out then add the 3d features you would have full 4k 3d for active displays and 4k 3d for passive with the half vertical resolution that would of been 2k 3d we would of had full hd plus for each eye. The 3d format would be in a entirely different place if it would have gone with 4k 3d vs 1080p 3d as half the vertical resolution is vhs quality the technology was there the implementation was horrendous and killed the market.
Linus makes a video upgrading his basement theater once a month which makes me wonder does he actually watch movies in it or is it constantly under shooting process for upgrades or changes.
Linus is most likely in constant ADHD goblin mode over things that captivate him at a particular time. As a certified ADHD goblin myself, who spends waaaaaay too much time tinkering with a lot of stuff I have, instead of straight up using it...I attest to it.
@@yubos98 as a fellow goblin, i approve. the process of planning, building, troubleshooting, etc. is WAAAYYY more fun than actually using whatever you're building lol. currently making a variety of different ESP32 based LED controller boxes so that I only have to plug in 220V and up to eight stripes on the other side of the box. Do I actually need it? uh, nope.
@@yubos98whenever I get some new tech and spend way too much dialling it in without actually sitting and enjoying the content. When I got my TV, I enjoyed dialling in everything, watched some Blade Runner 2049, said “wow”, and went to bed.
"3D glasses give my wife a headache", shows Elijah wearing glasses and with head pain, i knew it, he is only employed cause he is hooking up with the boss, i await my for my detective certification
Best way of watching 3D movies is on a Quest 3 or Apple Visio you can run directly the 3d raw file extracted from bluray without any compression/postprocess, pretty neat!
optician here To maintain polarization you need a metal surface. Light is reflected on its surface in a similar way to a mirror and does not scatter the incident light. thus the polarization is maintained
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Like a huge sheet of aluminium foil? :D (cheapout 3d :D )
@@Telhias Kind of but the more " mirror" Like it gets. the Viewing Angel gets worse more scattert light better Angel les scattert better Presentation for Polarisation
@@delectiThe new 3ds's 3d is actually good. But by the time it came out, most games I had no longer supported 3D at all and others stuttered because the hardware was not powerful enough. A few games definitely work though and there it's really cool.
@@delectiExcept the New 3DS has trouble tracking glasses. Works great when I'm not wearing them, but as soon as I put my glasses on, the 3D gets wonky.
@delecti I had a base model and an Original XL and I never had an issue with the 3d on those models. Sure it had an unforgiving sweet spot but nothing that bothered me to the point of feeling broken.
The same approach can be used to create a full virtual environment (CAVE). We implemented one at my uni using 3 3x3m Walls + the Floor with 2x projectors each, projecting onto large mirrors and back onto the backside of the walls. A person inside the virtual environment is tracked using a Kinect and can play Motion- and Joycon-controlled games, that students develop with Unity. Other games can also be played with 3-sided surround view of what's happening.
@@ChristopherHammond13 Oh interesting, not that many CAVEs around. But no, I work in the Visual Computing Lab of a german uni where I'm developing one.
VR headsets are THE way to watch 3d movies. A dedicated picture per eye, no darkening polarization filters needed. No lining up projectors. And SUPER cheap. And you can make the virtual screen any size you want. It actually works SO well, that faked 3d movies where its filmed in 2d then converted look kinda crappy. Its so clear and defined, you can see the depth layers like cardboard cutouts
Yeah, my old projector setup was 3D, back when Nvidia 3D vision was new and exciting.... Now we've got 2 vr headsets in the house I just can't justify another 3D projector setup, and it's clearly not getting any easier to do!
Even watching with a quest 2 movies in 3d are pretty impressive. With my reverb g2 movies look incredible. The rift cv1 makes it impossible to watch lol but yeah i second this. VR makes movies incredible in 3D. In the Vrchat world VFI cinema click welcome and type 1984 and you can watch tons of 3D movies.
Thought you guys were going to put the screen on a track so you can just hit a button and the screen would come down in front of the TV almost like a garage door.
Love seeing Linus trying to spark the 3D revolution again. I loved 3D personally and was an early addopter to the Nvidia 3D Vision Monitor and Glasses then later an LG Passive 3D TV that was awesome, damn I miss that TV.
@@YMandarin headache is arguable, I've seen lot of people that avoid 3d movies because the glasses can also give headaches, in my experience it was the same amount of people that would get headaches from VR
@@Houdini111 Headsets like the bigscreen beyond that have great resolution and are extremely comfortable are still a fraction of the cost compared to any other decent 3D solution
This is exactly why I kept my 55" Sony 3D TV and use the PS4 Pro for 3D blurays. Also kept my Asus 27" 3D LCD monitor for 3D PC games. 3D is awesome. Tron looks excellent in 3D with all the laser lines. Avatar is excellent as well.
I love how we have had this 3rd person view of watching "Boy" grow up. I remember when you were in the old house, with the first whole room water cooling, with the fake burglary prank, and seeing him as just a little guy. Thank you Linus for showing us your family, allowing us a viewport, but doing it in such a genuine way. I have never felt like your children have every been a "prop" in your videos, even when they are heavily featured in a topic. They've never seemed forced to appear or act on camera, and it's really nice to see.
I still have both of my 3D TVs, Blu-ray players, and all my 3D Blu-rays. They work great and my 6 year old daughter thinks it's amazing. I'm glad I invested in Passive 3D, so if I need a new pair of glasses, I can just use the RealD glasses from the theater.
3d is underrated. I didnt grow up with it but i recently got a "old" benq projector with dlp 3d and its amazing. You really cant compare it to anaglyph 3d. Im now buying all these 3d blu rays used for like 4 euros each its a steal
@@noahneuber4047 amen..bought an old Benq and wound up buying the needed 3D stuff(Blu-ray player,glasses) and was blown away at how good it was. Much more impressed by IMAX type documentaries than movies.
I used to have the 3D-vision glasses in the past. It’s a very different experience. But to make this technology more available for most people you should consider creating the same 3D experience (video and game) but with a VR-headset and compare the differences. A VR-headset has everything to give perfect stereoscopic vision and the passthrough view would make it possible to have a virtual screen, as big as you want, in 3D while outside of that seeing everting in your room. Being it the popcorn, the mouse and keyboard or a controller. Honestly I don’t understand why VR-companies don’t invest some of their resources into that. It would open so much more possibilities and games that it would be interesting to a way bigger market, a gateway drug to real VR. Even the people who don’t really want to use VR will then have a good use for a VR-headset. Now there is a good use case for using a VR-headset without needing a full room to jump and walk around. So for sure consider investigating that and comparing it with a setup like this. Cost, nausea (wonder if it’s less then VR and how it compares with shutter-glasses), ease of use/ setup and the possibility to get banned form a game for cheating because the anti-cheat software does not like it…
I have the same TV and using it right now, I admit I don't watch much 3D content any more, but I hate to part with the feature, and the burn in on the OLED is starting to show now, although it's only notable when there a lot of red in the picture
Funny, I happen to be watching this right now on one of those LG 3D smart tvs.... Reason I went for it at the time is because they were passive 3d like Linus stated. Watched Avatar on it in 3d in fact, the effects were pretty crazy.
I like how they started off with telling us the projectors could be found for $100 less than Linus said, for $400! Then we learn the filters are $1500, and then the screen is another $6K.
The 'greatest' 3d gaming experience is in VR, I was playing SBS nintendo 3DS games in bigscreen beta, sitting in a theater-like experience on a massive screen. You can do it too, for the price of an index, or oculus. Seriously, go try it all you crazy kids with VR, you can do it real easily
Now that it works, I'd love to see you guys refine the setup into something that can more easily be replicated rather than the janky poles and stands. It doesn't seem too hard to achieve with some refinement!
@@sandmaster4444 Indeed, but given what I saw in the video, it could absolutely be done cheaper and less jankily now that they've gone through the trial and error for the audience. Beyond the upfront investment of the choices they made, there really wasn't that many steps to replicate.
Meanwhile my 12 year old Samsung TV just has a "2D->3D" button 😂 Great to see 3D isn't totally dead yet tho. As someone who never got a headache from the active glasses I always loved the technology!
I used to watch 3D movies all the time in VRChat before the narcs got the movie rooms shut down. VR headsets are definitely the best way to consume 3D content provided you can deal with wearing a headset for a couple hours.
@@thekey147 I'll have to search around. All the ones I was using had the movie parts gutted from them and last I checked I wasn't able to find any that still worked.
@@thekey147 not sure why my reply to you got deleted but last I checked the movie libraries were all removed from the rooms I used and I couldn't find any that had them. I'll have to look again.
Ive been rockin my Epson 3020 projector about a decade now. 1080p and 3D with wireless active glasses. I can feed it side by side or over under video files. Ive got a hard drive filled with hundreds of 3D movies and tv shows, almost everything available.
hey man i love 3d content on my projector too. i bave been so dissapointed with the majority of whats available i have resorted t making my own content. (its only really to show friends when we're fucked up!) i have however recently got a blu ray player. are the 3d blu rays worth it? and if so could you recommend any that have been particularly good? thanks for your time bro
---> *_I noticed on Disney+ today that some of the Marvel movies are listed as "3D" ???_* *_We can stream 3D now??_* *_Too bad my new TV doesn't have 3D._*
Bro spent more than 10k, just to let his son wait for 2 years instead of renting a cinema to watch it so he couldve watched Avatar 2 in time. Diabolical.
I got a 3D TV and blu ray player when they first became available. Only ever watched 2 movies in 3D on it. Still have them both, the player is hooked up to my main TV and the TV is on the wall in my gaming room and never gets used, with the glasses in the drawer next to it lol
I believe stereoscopic player can play the native Blu-ray 3D SSIF file directly, meaning you don't have to re-encode and get the full original quality without artifacts.
To minimize the effect of cross-talk (ghosting), the source 3D left and right images are actually incorrect, generating a different pitched view to each eye which causes headaches and makes the 3D results a bad uncomfortable experience. If one were to eliminate the cross-talk issue completely, then the source left and right images for each eye can be properly rendered. Yes, I had a patent which eliminated that cross-talk problem for both polarized glasses and active shutter glasses. The resulting effect made properly rendered video games and cinematography appear as truly solid tangible objects.
A VR headset removes all the ghosting and crosstalk nonsense that plagued traditional 3D movie consumption. VRChat used to have a TON of movie rooms that offered 3D but they all got shut down. 😢
Asked AI to summarize…"A man decided to create a 3D home theater in his basement after his children asked to see Avatar in 3D. He encountered several challenges, including the lack of support for 3D hardware and the high cost of obtaining polarizing filters and a suitable screen. Despite these obstacles, he was able to successfully set up a 3D home theater system and was pleased with the results."
Make sure to play a couch co-op full screen game! And then brach from there so you play a game while someone else watches a movie (headsets for both required) family media night! Half the family watches one thing the other something completely different. Bonus points if you do it stealthy so they don't know it's happening and then you react to something others aren't even seeing.
I'm so glad I still have my 2016 4k OLED 3DTV. I've carried it through 2 moves and I've only put something like 1000 hours on it. But man, when I fire up a 3D game in 4k or a good 3D movie, holy cow the experience is by far the BEST 3D experience I've, and that includes movie theaters.
Imagine you have a theater at home, but your father rebuilds it five times a day so no one can use it at all. Just kidding, of course, thought it was funny, lol.
Looking at that polarizer price and glasses, they are actually a steal. $1.5k for both is amazing considering the size of the substrate although they are probably only 20 dB extinction. The plastic filters probably are 10-15 dB for reference. Also for anyone wanting to do the alignment, get an red and blue dot array on each projector. Start with big dots and go smaller as you move to finer adjustments.
I love 3D movies. 4K HDR provides the best experience, but 3D truly immerses you. I’m in my 20s and believe that buying physical copies is the best option. I dislike paying for subscriptions that offer poor bit rates. I plan to rip the movies and set up my own server soon.
I feel like im the only one that actually loves 3D in the theatres, the "headache" is gone in like 5 minutes and you just get a great immersive experience that is pretty hard to beat, and it actually feels like youre paying for something and not just for someone to press play on a big movie screen for you. youre paying for the experience imo. For movies with cool visuals it only makes it better imo, likeer spiderverse in 3d is wild
With a stronger push for VR/AR glasses/headsets, Apple Vision, etc., we *can* expect a revival of 3D "theater" content sooner than later. Projectors are neat, too. It's great sharing 3D experiences with friends/family. I wanted to do 3D last year, so I found 3D-enabled DLP-link (active shutter) projectors for cheap online, and some cheap shutter glasses on AliExpress, and while the projector(s) were only 1080p, and not super bright (supposedly 4000nits on this UST thing I found, but that's effectively halved when doing 3D), 3D movies are still a lot of fun to watch wit my kid/on my own. ... Diminishing returns, of course, as always, since simply being able to watch a thing at all, on any screen, is 98% of the experience/joy. But it's still neat, and if you've got nothing better to do, 3D is a worthwhile experiment to delve into.
The first thought I got, when I saw the power of polarisation on this video - have you tried polarisation filters for lenses? (I've got no idea, if it's anywhere close in terms of quality or "specs", but from a physics perspective it must be literally the same thing and actually not bad probably cheaper solution (you can get glasses with filter screws)(depending on the manufacturer and costs...))
You should mount the screen to the ceiling on hinges so you can fold it up / drop it down, couple catches for the bottom and a stop / shock absorbers to prevent it swinging into the tv. The other thing that might help is flipping one of the projectors upside down and mounting them next to each other mimicking pupil distance and gettign l/r the correct way around.
I cannot believe Linus actually made it work 😀 I spent a looot of time trying to play 3D movies on a regular PC via projector with active glasses. You would think it is easy to do, but ever since nVidia stopped officialy supporting 3D, It took quite some searching as how to do this on 3070 with the newest drivers.
I would suggest doing what the do with 3d cameras, aligning the projectors with a one way mirror, so one projector points at the mirror and one through
What's interesting is some of the Sony Bravia line TVs say they only support the active 3D glasses but actually work with real 3D glasses from the theater
I remember seeing some good 3D back in the day.. Few Amusement parks had 3D stuff and it was so good ! I remember my sister smacking fish that were flying towards us
17:08 "This segue....."
Awwww. Little man is all grown up.👷♂
makes me feel proud and old watching him grow
First segue! they grow up so fast lol
And why did it feel like it was improved by him and they just kept it anyways
I don't know looks like Linus is the same height
He looks so much like his dad, they were both looking over at the camera on the couch and I was like TWINS
As someone who has worked in projection for quite some time now, the vast majority of movie theaters don't use dual projector setups to screen 3D content, they actually use a single projector with a polarizing screen placed in front of the lens.
This is done for a number of reasons, primarily cost, but it also comes with a heap of downsides including severe brightness reduction and also flattening of the colours.
3D fell out of fashion both because it was somewhat gimmicky, outside of standout titles like Avatar, most films used it poorly (looking at you bad Marvel 3D conversions). It also fell out of fashion due to the lack of consumer interest. Whilst the audience might not be able to immediately notice and describe the downsides, they knew that it wasn't as visually impressive as they remembered (due to the colour and brightness constraints).
Dual projector setups are almost always superior for projecting 3D content. It's a shame that they fell out of fashion. This DIY equivalent is awesome and it's nice to see a little more interest in projection!
Dude this setup looks sooooo good and your post explains why it seemed better than I remembered. -LS
Just buy one of the last great 3D projectors 2nd hand... Epson TW9300 ftw (until you get cyan lines running in the middle 😢)
VERY nice insight dude !
@@LinusTechTips I think a big screw up was not waiting till 4k as that was just coming out then add the 3d features you would have full 4k 3d for active displays and 4k 3d for passive with the half vertical resolution that would of been 2k 3d we would of had full hd plus for each eye. The 3d format would be in a entirely different place if it would have gone with 4k 3d vs 1080p 3d as half the vertical resolution is vhs quality the technology was there the implementation was horrendous and killed the market.
absolutely true. the only screenings you will get in actualy 2 projector 3D is IMAX and Dolby Vision. (Which looks bonkers)
Linus makes a video upgrading his basement theater once a month which makes me wonder does he actually watch movies in it or is it constantly under shooting process for upgrades or changes.
Linus is most likely in constant ADHD goblin mode over things that captivate him at a particular time. As a certified ADHD goblin myself, who spends waaaaaay too much time tinkering with a lot of stuff I have, instead of straight up using it...I attest to it.
I can imagine his kids going either "dad upgraded the theater yay!!!" Or "dad broke the theater room.... Again"
Well, Linus once said he enjoys building sick PCs, see them rip trough benchmarks, and then take them apart, never playing a game on them.
@@yubos98 as a fellow goblin, i approve. the process of planning, building, troubleshooting, etc. is WAAAYYY more fun than actually using whatever you're building lol. currently making a variety of different ESP32 based LED controller boxes so that I only have to plug in 220V and up to eight stripes on the other side of the box. Do I actually need it? uh, nope.
@@yubos98whenever I get some new tech and spend way too much dialling it in without actually sitting and enjoying the content. When I got my TV, I enjoyed dialling in everything, watched some Blade Runner 2049, said “wow”, and went to bed.
1:00 "gives my wife a splitting headache!!" shows Elijah
So elija is Linus wife now? I mean I am happy for them… but what about Yvonne?
@@TheSykoRC Elijah is his mistress
work wife?
maybe elijah and yvonne are both his wives
Poor Yvonne… think about the kids!!!
Dad, can we please go watch Avatar? - No, we gonna make video from that, and will film it for 2 years.
"3D glasses give my wife a headache", shows Elijah wearing glasses and with head pain, i knew it, he is only employed cause he is hooking up with the boss, i await my for my detective certification
Linus and Elijah are slowly turning into Michael Scott and Ryan the temp
Shooting of avatar 2 started in 2017 and lasted three years. So still faster.
Its crazy that back in 2010-2015 you couldn't find aa TV without 3d. Now it's almost impossible
They haven't been made since the LG E/G6 of 2016 it is available on projectors but they're always active and not passive 3D
Hoping history repeats itself and we get TVs without Smart functions.
Man that's hopeless
Best way of watching 3D movies is on a Quest 3 or Apple Visio you can run directly the 3d raw file extracted from bluray without any compression/postprocess, pretty neat!
optician here
To maintain polarization you need a metal surface. Light is reflected on its surface in a similar way to a mirror and does not scatter the incident light.
thus the polarization is maintained
Like a huge sheet of aluminium foil? :D (cheapout 3d :D )
Ah yes, the diy collimated screen coming up next. Just what I need for my flight sim!
So... You could use a mirror as a screen?
@@Telhias Kind of but the more " mirror" Like it gets. the Viewing Angel gets worse
more scattert light better Angel
les scattert better Presentation for Polarisation
more Like a huge stainless steal Sheet
Imagine a 3D movie theater in Linustown and every time a movie starts, there’d be a segue to his sponsors. Now that would be sick.
LINUSTOWN LET'S GOOO
LINUS TOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew!
isn't that just preroll ads? like movies have?
@@randombrit13 Yknow what movies don't have? A segue, to this sponsor
This is why the 3ds is hands down one of my favorite consoles of all time. What they managed to do with that hardware still impresses me to this day.
@@ggary04 it was a bit rough on the launch model, but the "New" 3ds's 3d is impressively seamless.
@@delectiThe new 3ds's 3d is actually good.
But by the time it came out, most games I had no longer supported 3D at all and others stuttered because the hardware was not powerful enough.
A few games definitely work though and there it's really cool.
@@delectiExcept the New 3DS has trouble tracking glasses. Works great when I'm not wearing them, but as soon as I put my glasses on, the 3D gets wonky.
@delecti I had a base model and an Original XL and I never had an issue with the 3d on those models. Sure it had an unforgiving sweet spot but nothing that bothered me to the point of feeling broken.
Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on the 3ds was an absolutely great experience to play through in 3d and it felt wrong to not play with 3D on.
put the hinges on the projector screen so you can leave the TV and screen. When you need a TV, turn the screen to the ceiling
Then just need to mount the projectors!
The same approach can be used to create a full virtual environment (CAVE). We implemented one at my uni using 3 3x3m Walls + the Floor with 2x projectors each, projecting onto large mirrors and back onto the backside of the walls. A person inside the virtual environment is tracked using a Kinect and can play Motion- and Joycon-controlled games, that students develop with Unity. Other games can also be played with 3-sided surround view of what's happening.
Did you go to UCL?! The CAVE there was awesome. Unfortunately I only got to use it once: the open day before I applied 😂
@@ChristopherHammond13 Oh interesting, not that many CAVEs around. But no, I work in the Visual Computing Lab of a german uni where I'm developing one.
VR headsets are THE way to watch 3d movies. A dedicated picture per eye, no darkening polarization filters needed. No lining up projectors. And SUPER cheap. And you can make the virtual screen any size you want.
It actually works SO well, that faked 3d movies where its filmed in 2d then converted look kinda crappy. Its so clear and defined, you can see the depth layers like cardboard cutouts
It is great... Except for the resolution. If you want good resolution, you will pay for it.
Yeah, my old projector setup was 3D, back when Nvidia 3D vision was new and exciting.... Now we've got 2 vr headsets in the house I just can't justify another 3D projector setup, and it's clearly not getting any easier to do!
@@Telhias yup, tried with a 200gb 3D avatar movie but the screen of the quest 3 sucks a little... maybe a OLED one can be god
Even watching with a quest 2 movies in 3d are pretty impressive. With my reverb g2 movies look incredible. The rift cv1 makes it impossible to watch lol but yeah i second this. VR makes movies incredible in 3D. In the Vrchat world VFI cinema click welcome and type 1984 and you can watch tons of 3D movies.
They have yet to make a vr headset that is comfortable enough for a non techy to want to wear for any real length of time
13:28 Editor, you made my day 🤣
mine two, its so perfect
I'd love to know the song. If anyone can help with that
Thought you guys were going to put the screen on a track so you can just hit a button and the screen would come down in front of the TV almost like a garage door.
Exactly what I was expecting.
Might not bend 😅
Love seeing Linus trying to spark the 3D revolution again. I loved 3D personally and was an early addopter to the Nvidia 3D Vision Monitor and Glasses then later an LG Passive 3D TV that was awesome, damn I miss that TV.
Could you imagine how passive 3D would look on the TV in LInus' basement with the extra brightness it has?
Next year: I upgraded my 3D Cinema to a 4D Cinema
Cinema 4D
Right, next will be motion seating.
Coming soon TM
add the butt kickers from Doug Demuro racing sim video to the sofa! haha
Can you watch MKBHD going 96 through a school zone in 3D?
I hope they make the speedometer stand out in this version
@@pjp13579 amazing
They really should
I dunno about 96 but I'll watch them 69
@@James-dc6ftin 16K
17:00 Linus your kid is almost taller than you 😅😂
Linus looks like a big brother instead of a dad
Little man is actually excited about the 3D gaming concept haha, love his "Can i have it?" at the end.
And the actual best experience for 3D is... a VR headset with any media player, can even watch together with Bigscreen
But you run into a resolution and comfort issue. Certainly less painful to get set up though.
though this probably causes more headache than the 3d screen
@@YMandarin headache is arguable, I've seen lot of people that avoid 3d movies because the glasses can also give headaches, in my experience it was the same amount of people that would get headaches from VR
@@Houdini111 Headsets like the bigscreen beyond that have great resolution and are extremely comfortable are still a fraction of the cost compared to any other decent 3D solution
@@44dri44nespecially if you just want to watch movies, you probably wouldn't need any tracking hardware, right?
This is exactly why I kept my 55" Sony 3D TV and use the PS4 Pro for 3D blurays. Also kept my Asus 27" 3D LCD monitor for 3D PC games. 3D is awesome. Tron looks excellent in 3D with all the laser lines. Avatar is excellent as well.
I love how we have had this 3rd person view of watching "Boy" grow up. I remember when you were in the old house, with the first whole room water cooling, with the fake burglary prank, and seeing him as just a little guy.
Thank you Linus for showing us your family, allowing us a viewport, but doing it in such a genuine way. I have never felt like your children have every been a "prop" in your videos, even when they are heavily featured in a topic. They've never seemed forced to appear or act on camera, and it's really nice to see.
LOL... Linus saying, "That I didn't waste my money!" and then Elijah chuckle with that face was priceless.
I still have both of my 3D TVs, Blu-ray players, and all my 3D Blu-rays. They work great and my 6 year old daughter thinks it's amazing. I'm glad I invested in Passive 3D, so if I need a new pair of glasses, I can just use the RealD glasses from the theater.
3d is underrated. I didnt grow up with it but i recently got a "old" benq projector with dlp 3d and its amazing. You really cant compare it to anaglyph 3d. Im now buying all these 3d blu rays used for like 4 euros each its a steal
@@noahneuber4047 amen..bought an old Benq and wound up buying the needed 3D stuff(Blu-ray player,glasses) and was blown away at how good it was. Much more impressed by IMAX type documentaries than movies.
Getting a brand new Japanese Fat PS3 yesterday made me appreciate 3D Media so much more. Sony was great when it came to 3D back when PS3 came out.
17:12 Train them young, train them well. This is the way of the segue
"segway"
16:52 Everything the light touches, is our kingdom.
I used to have the 3D-vision glasses in the past. It’s a very different experience.
But to make this technology more available for most people you should consider creating the same 3D experience (video and game) but with a VR-headset and compare the differences.
A VR-headset has everything to give perfect stereoscopic vision and the passthrough view would make it possible to have a virtual screen, as big as you want, in 3D while outside of that seeing everting in your room.
Being it the popcorn, the mouse and keyboard or a controller.
Honestly I don’t understand why VR-companies don’t invest some of their resources into that.
It would open so much more possibilities and games that it would be interesting to a way bigger market, a gateway drug to real VR. Even the people who don’t really want to use VR will then have a good use for a VR-headset. Now there is a good use case for using a VR-headset without needing a full room to jump and walk around.
So for sure consider investigating that and comparing it with a setup like this.
Cost, nausea (wonder if it’s less then VR and how it compares with shutter-glasses), ease of use/ setup and the possibility to get banned form a game for cheating because the anti-cheat software does not like it…
Love how LS and Elijah are so stoked watching it, and mini-Linus looks totally unimpressed.
I have that LG TV in the preview. Don't use the 3D, but it has held up magnificently these 10 years. Easy and consistent quality.
I have the same TV and using it right now, I admit I don't watch much 3D content any more, but I hate to part with the feature, and the burn in on the OLED is starting to show now, although it's only notable when there a lot of red in the picture
Funny, I happen to be watching this right now on one of those LG 3D smart tvs.... Reason I went for it at the time is because they were passive 3d like Linus stated. Watched Avatar on it in 3d in fact, the effects were pretty crazy.
The new 3d standard is just sbs etc on vr headset, and next gen is just 360 degrees videos
You could have also use a Quest 3 or a Apple Vision Pro, the best way of watching 3d content for sure
I remember red blue 3D glasses as a kid. I must be old.
nah its just the cheapo variant nowadays
Old... me too. 55, almost 56.
Possibly. Were you a kid in the 1920s? 3D films were popular then and the red/blue (really cyan) 3D has been around since the late 1800s.
These are old?
I like how they started off with telling us the projectors could be found for $100 less than Linus said, for $400! Then we learn the filters are $1500, and then the screen is another $6K.
3D movies are amazing, it's a shame most of them on bluray are only available in 1080p vs 2k in cinemas and normally lack Dolby Atmos
This setup makes the Apple Vision Pro a steal at $3.5k!
in a world where vr glasses exist that can easily play 3d movies, linus spends this much money
The 'greatest' 3d gaming experience is in VR, I was playing SBS nintendo 3DS games in bigscreen beta, sitting in a theater-like experience on a massive screen. You can do it too, for the price of an index, or oculus. Seriously, go try it all you crazy kids with VR, you can do it real easily
Now that it works, I'd love to see you guys refine the setup into something that can more easily be replicated rather than the janky poles and stands.
It doesn't seem too hard to achieve with some refinement!
They "only" mentioned $5k+2*$400+$1600 for the equipment, let alone the time and the stands
@@sandmaster4444 Indeed, but given what I saw in the video, it could absolutely be done cheaper and less jankily now that they've gone through the trial and error for the audience.
Beyond the upfront investment of the choices they made, there really wasn't that many steps to replicate.
Meanwhile my 12 year old Samsung TV just has a "2D->3D" button 😂 Great to see 3D isn't totally dead yet tho. As someone who never got a headache from the active glasses I always loved the technology!
With the 3d glasses, Linus looks like slim shady Tony stark
5:25 the "eye hole" reference was disturbing lmao. Great video!
I used to watch 3D movies all the time in VRChat before the narcs got the movie rooms shut down. VR headsets are definitely the best way to consume 3D content provided you can deal with wearing a headset for a couple hours.
@@Thezuule1 there are definitely still movie rooms in VRChat haha
Yea its a shame those rooms got turned into perfectly normal hang out rooms with no links or directions at all inside them.
Can multiple VR headsets be "synced" to the same space? I.e. if you wanted to watch a 3D movie with someone in the same physical and virtual space.
@@thekey147 I'll have to search around. All the ones I was using had the movie parts gutted from them and last I checked I wasn't able to find any that still worked.
@@thekey147 not sure why my reply to you got deleted but last I checked the movie libraries were all removed from the rooms I used and I couldn't find any that had them. I'll have to look again.
based from the final setup, I seeing this won't be the last episode.
I must be the only one who never seen Avatar 1 or 2 lol
There's at least tens of us I'd think
This is my favorite LTT project this year. 3D home theatre has been but a dream for everyone, but LTT takes it from there.
Ive been rockin my Epson 3020 projector about a decade now. 1080p and 3D with wireless active glasses. I can feed it side by side or over under video files. Ive got a hard drive filled with hundreds of 3D movies and tv shows, almost everything available.
hey man i love 3d content on my projector too. i bave been so dissapointed with the majority of whats available i have resorted t making my own content. (its only really to show friends when we're fucked up!)
i have however recently got a blu ray player. are the 3d blu rays worth it? and if so could you recommend any that have been particularly good?
thanks for your time bro
3D videos work surprisingly well on Meta Quest. You can even have a 3D movie playing on your Big Screen screen - it's a bit trippy.
Does anyone have an active count for how many times Linus has torn apart his theater room for a video? It's gotta be close to 20 now...
---> *_I noticed on Disney+ today that some of the Marvel movies are listed as "3D" ???_*
*_We can stream 3D now??_*
*_Too bad my new TV doesn't have 3D._*
Spending the money on those projector, screen and filter, probably enough to buy Apple Vision Pro each for Linus whole family members
@@HectorHK yeah, but why give up on the Chad 3D Home Theater for the virgin i3d lame-o-goggles?
9:40 I spat out my drink
I really love 3d. . . Sorry to hear about the price tag on this stuff
Bro spent more than 10k, just to let his son wait for 2 years instead of renting a cinema to watch it so he couldve watched Avatar 2 in time. Diabolical.
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I would love to see a video on 3D movies in VR and maybe comparing the experience to this setup.
I had a 3D plasma tv. Awesome black levels which helped immensely with 3D, plus the room was warm and cozy!
0:25 Don Casanova's dream is still alive.
You’re gonna need some 3D content. 😎
Real talk, the best 3D experience is the Apple Vision Pro. Is it good for much else? No. But amazing for 3D movies.
I got a 3D TV and blu ray player when they first became available. Only ever watched 2 movies in 3D on it. Still have them both, the player is hooked up to my main TV and the TV is on the wall in my gaming room and never gets used, with the glasses in the drawer next to it lol
I believe stereoscopic player can play the native Blu-ray 3D SSIF file directly, meaning you don't have to re-encode and get the full original quality without artifacts.
Faster than the shitty notifications
To minimize the effect of cross-talk (ghosting), the source 3D left and right images are actually incorrect, generating a different pitched view to each eye which causes headaches and makes the 3D results a bad uncomfortable experience. If one were to eliminate the cross-talk issue completely, then the source left and right images for each eye can be properly rendered. Yes, I had a patent which eliminated that cross-talk problem for both polarized glasses and active shutter glasses. The resulting effect made properly rendered video games and cinematography appear as truly solid tangible objects.
This is what VR really shines in - 3D content in BigScreen has been so much fun these past few months.
A VR headset removes all the ghosting and crosstalk nonsense that plagued traditional 3D movie consumption. VRChat used to have a TON of movie rooms that offered 3D but they all got shut down. 😢
I tend to use Skybox VR
As it gives a better enviroment but big screen is still good.
But is an single player viewing
I can see an old linus looked just as excited while installing an IMAX 3D projector 6:42
Asked AI to summarize…"A man decided to create a 3D home theater in his basement after his children asked to see Avatar in 3D. He encountered several challenges, including the lack of support for 3D hardware and the high cost of obtaining polarizing filters and a suitable screen. Despite these obstacles, he was able to successfully set up a 3D home theater system and was pleased with the results."
you could create a hinged winch from the ceiling an have the screen automated, would be a great solution for the gaming setup
i like how he talked about his kids being raised with respect and not entitlement and how he was gonna limit the stuff he had but here we go lmao
Lil bro just the segue sponsor they gonna be aight
Make sure to play a couch co-op full screen game! And then brach from there so you play a game while someone else watches a movie (headsets for both required) family media night! Half the family watches one thing the other something completely different. Bonus points if you do it stealthy so they don't know it's happening and then you react to something others aren't even seeing.
Only 3 views in 12 sec you fell off man
@@masondoinglife 192 views, 1 min 😞😞
He only have 1k views pff
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Oh my god Tron Legacy is so worth it. The part when Sam gets pulled into the grid is so sick.
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For me Big Screen and VR is the best way to watch 3D content, nothing else is as good.
I'm so glad I still have my 2016 4k OLED 3DTV. I've carried it through 2 moves and I've only put something like 1000 hours on it. But man, when I fire up a 3D game in 4k or a good 3D movie, holy cow the experience is by far the BEST 3D experience I've, and that includes movie theaters.
Imagine you have a theater at home, but your father rebuilds it five times a day so no one can use it at all. Just kidding, of course, thought it was funny, lol.
Looking at that polarizer price and glasses, they are actually a steal. $1.5k for both is amazing considering the size of the substrate although they are probably only 20 dB extinction. The plastic filters probably are 10-15 dB for reference.
Also for anyone wanting to do the alignment, get an red and blue dot array on each projector. Start with big dots and go smaller as you move to finer adjustments.
I love 3D movies. 4K HDR provides the best experience, but 3D truly immerses you. I’m in my 20s and believe that buying physical copies is the best option. I dislike paying for subscriptions that offer poor bit rates. I plan to rip the movies and set up my own server soon.
It wiil be great to watch dolphins on that screen, "a revolution", if you will.
🎶Interior crocodile alligator, Linus built a basement 3D theatre.🎶
I feel like im the only one that actually loves 3D in the theatres, the "headache" is gone in like 5 minutes and you just get a great immersive experience that is pretty hard to beat, and it actually feels like youre paying for something and not just for someone to press play on a big movie screen for you. youre paying for the experience imo. For movies with cool visuals it only makes it better imo, likeer spiderverse in 3d is wild
With a stronger push for VR/AR glasses/headsets, Apple Vision, etc., we *can* expect a revival of 3D "theater" content sooner than later. Projectors are neat, too. It's great sharing 3D experiences with friends/family.
I wanted to do 3D last year, so I found 3D-enabled DLP-link (active shutter) projectors for cheap online, and some cheap shutter glasses on AliExpress, and while the projector(s) were only 1080p, and not super bright (supposedly 4000nits on this UST thing I found, but that's effectively halved when doing 3D), 3D movies are still a lot of fun to watch wit my kid/on my own.
... Diminishing returns, of course, as always, since simply being able to watch a thing at all, on any screen, is 98% of the experience/joy. But it's still neat, and if you've got nothing better to do, 3D is a worthwhile experiment to delve into.
0:20 one of the rare occurances where ".... at home" is probably the better experience
The first thought I got, when I saw the power of polarisation on this video - have you tried polarisation filters for lenses?
(I've got no idea, if it's anywhere close in terms of quality or "specs", but from a physics perspective it must be literally the same thing and actually not bad probably cheaper solution (you can get glasses with filter screws)(depending on the manufacturer and costs...))
You should mount the screen to the ceiling on hinges so you can fold it up / drop it down, couple catches for the bottom and a stop / shock absorbers to prevent it swinging into the tv. The other thing that might help is flipping one of the projectors upside down and mounting them next to each other mimicking pupil distance and gettign l/r the correct way around.
I cannot believe Linus actually made it work 😀
I spent a looot of time trying to play 3D movies on a regular PC via projector with active glasses. You would think it is easy to do, but ever since nVidia stopped officialy supporting 3D, It took quite some searching as how to do this on 3070 with the newest drivers.
At this point, the theater room should just have its own channel
Really wish 3D televisions would come back already 😎
I would suggest doing what the do with 3d cameras, aligning the projectors with a one way mirror, so one projector points at the mirror and one through
I need a nap after watching you do all this work
What's interesting is some of the Sony Bravia line TVs say they only support the active 3D glasses but actually work with real 3D glasses from the theater
That music when Elijah fell was golden😂
I remember seeing some good 3D back in the day.. Few Amusement parks had 3D stuff and it was so good ! I remember my sister smacking fish that were flying towards us
Hey Linus, why do you guys always watch how to train your dragon as a reference film or encanto?
Linus Tech Theatre in Linus Tech Town ?!?! LET'S GOOOOOOOOO
Ah reminds me of my youth "dad can we do ?" My dad would reply " yes son later". this is later