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Well I got volunteered. I usually be happy they asked me for tech help but they picked on thing I have not experience with.

My niece wants to watch on the downstairs tv a 3D cartoon show she saw something like a preview for.

Now the thing is she might not be able to. I was thinking 3D red blue or 3D red cyan glasses and there are a ton of them. Now the problem is it's online and the tv in the livingroom is a sony uhd led tv set, not a 3D led tv set.

Will the simple cartoon she wants to watch work with 3D glasses on a regular tv that is like the old movies with red and blue lines that look wierd with no 3D glasses.

I personally have seen little holograms but have never watched a 3D movie in my long life.

Does anyone have some advise or just a yes or no. I've been to so many sites and read so many comments on the amazon website with anaglyph type glasses and the answers are so basic, like "works great" "doesn't work" no hardware info or anything. I'm sure the passive ones won't work. I also understand like blender these movie use a bumpmap and blue red to represent depth since a video I watched the guy simplified it to xyz =rgb can't get much easier than that.

So do paper or plastic glasses make 3D show depth on a normal led tv?

Well I got volunteered. I usually be happy they asked me for tech help but they picked on thing I have not experience with. My niece wants to watch on the downstairs tv a 3D cartoon show she saw something like a preview for. Now the thing is she might not be able to. I was thinking 3D red blue or 3D red cyan glasses and there are a ton of them. Now the problem is it's online and the tv in the livingroom is a sony uhd led tv set, not a 3D led tv set. Will the simple cartoon she wants to watch work with 3D glasses on a regular tv that is like the old movies with red and blue lines that look wierd with no 3D glasses. I personally have seen little holograms but have never watched a 3D movie in my long life. Does anyone have some advise or just a yes or no. I've been to so many sites and read so many comments on the amazon website with anaglyph type glasses and the answers are so basic, like "works great" "doesn't work" no hardware info or anything. I'm sure the passive ones won't work. I also understand like blender these movie use a bumpmap and blue red to represent depth since a video I watched the guy simplified it to xyz =rgb can't get much easier than that. So do paper or plastic glasses make 3D show depth on a normal led tv?

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The “red and blue lens” 3D glasses were used primarily for comic books rather than film. Occasionally they were used for commercial gimmicks on television and in some lower end home video distribution. However, “passive” 3D or stereoscopic viewing typically uses polarized lenses in the glasses to “block” one version of the duplicated image in each eye. “Active” 3D was a relatively limited use technology that required powered glasses to alternately flicker each lens to full opacity in order to block a visual signal to the eye.

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I remember around 2000 on IRC talking to an online friend about shutter goggles for playing games and he said unless I enjoyed massive headaches to keep clear of that shit.

It was only around $200 but disappeared soon after since they likely decided to make them to require more powerful systems like todays and then charge a ton more for them.

I really wanted to try one out on Diablo at the time since it would have been amazing to watch the monsters like in a tool video walking around in 3D but the cost was almost a weeks pay back then so I didn't though since I've never had the 3D glasses experience it was a thing I wanted to try ever since.

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So basically you gotta give us more info about how the cartoon is shot. What format is it in

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No idea, she couldn't even tell me the name of it. I'll just toss out likely it's on the Reboot cartoon decades back 3D but low detailed, she likes spongebob but thinks anime is stupid, so young and simplistic.

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Reboot was tits. It was hokey to perfection. That is unfortunately all I have to contribute here.

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streaming cartoon almost forgot to add that to the last part.

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It depends there are several formats.

The old way would work as it is double imposed on a single film and the glasses cause a spectroscopic field of depth from offset images.

The new way and what most things would be shot in now is less good. It requires a 3d television and special glasses to work.

There is also the dual image 3d which will put a left and right dual video up and you need special active glasses that shutter each eye alternating to produce a visual 3d image. This requires calibration.

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The old way would use the red blue glasses btw

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If spectroscopic is that an image with offset lines but not the same offset and overlapping red or green mess if seen with no glasses might be the closest since it's not on blueray disk or like a video game with ray tracing, like old 3D movies where you see it all on one single not split frame vert or hori just a picture with red blue lines superimposed to signify far or near like when you have redshift in space to show if moving away or toward you.

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I said spectroscopic bit I meant stereoscopic sorry. They are all a form of it but they pull it off in different eays

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If its streaming try streaming it and see what it looks like. If it looks like red and green wavy lines then the old school glasses will work. If it looks kinda blurry all the time then it needs a 3d TV. If it's two side by side or top and bottom videos it needs active shutter glasses.