With These 3D Glasses, You're in Charge of Your Movie-Watching Experience

Even your 3D movie glasses use filters now.

An Ontario-based company has created a pair 3D glasses that uses filters to manipulate 3D image streams.

In most stereoscopic displays (3D displays), two image streams are projected simultaneously on one screen. In 3D movies, the two image streams are identical but one is positioned off-center to simulate depth when viewed through a pair of 3D glasses.

With that knowledge of 3D displays, PipeDream Interactive created Invisivision to isolate one of the two image streams using filters. Instead of using two identical image streams in a 3D display, a filmmaker could create an image stream with different content. With the filters down, the viewer will see one of the image streams. With the filters flipped up, they'll see the other.

PipeDream Interactive believes that the uses of Invisivison could add more interesting narratives to films. For example, filmmakers could "conceal and reveal" details depending on what filter a viewer watches through. Additionally, the use of Invisivison with 3D glasses could be used for something as simple as adding or removing subtitles.

However, the number of movies that could use the innovation is limited because the movies would have to be formatted specifically for Invisvision. To show off how the innovation works, PipeDream Interactive is including a viewing of its short Invisvision-ready film, Purpose-Coloured Glasses, for certain levels of Kickstarter backers.

Donating around $23 (25 CAD) will net a backer one pair of blue Invisivision glasses; donating around $32 (35 CAD) will grant you a ticket to the U.S. and Canadian short film premiere, if enough people in your area also donated that amount.

With 22 days left, Invisivision's Kickstarter campaign has raised more than $19,000 of its roughly $180,000 (200,000 CAD) goal.