Awesome, just awesome. I always loved pissing off a crowd, like using my Sony Clie to turn off tv’s in sports bars during big game and put it to dora instead. Gotta love screwing with people.

This is not how a lot of 3d theaters work. The ones I’ve been in use polarized lenses, and two polarized images on the screen at once so each eye only sees the image it’s supposed to. There are theaters giving out 3d shutter glasses? That’s awesome.

“I like to park in handicap spaces, while handicap people make handicapped faces, cause I’m an a**hole!”

I really liked their resourcefulness in discovering the IR signal protocol. As for their application… I wish someone would kick them in the gnads.

scratch here for hear lol

When someone pays $10 to see a movie, it’s not “fun” to have someone else decide to ruin the experience. What is wrong with these retards?

That site has a lot of useful info, shame most of its in french.

Gotta admit, you have you to be a total penis to go to a cinema and ruin the film for the ‘first row’, or anyone else.

-10 for arseholeism.

I have no issue with screwing with people, since all you have to do when your glasses stop working is walk out to the customer service desk and ask for a refund. No harm done.

I like the resourcefulness and think this would be great for a home theater system.

If you follow the link to the French page, you will see that he’s used a Lady Ada TV-be-gone board… does this mean this is a ‘Movie-be-gone’?

anon says “I read this site everyday and here people whinning about how “thats obnoxious” or your a jerk or many others….get over it the whole point of this site is to be creative i say have fun with what you create unless it does physical harm to someone”

How about I come to your house and cut the electricity, phone, and water off for a laugh. To make it creative, I’ll do it with an autonomous robot. Nobody is physically harmed, so I trust you’ll take it in good humor.

Yea, this is pretty weak. There would seem to be a lot of holes with this technique anyway.

Also, avatar (and many movies like it) use polarized glasses the two lenses where one is polarized for the vertical and one for the horizontal. The light going out onto the screen is also polarized such that there will essentially two images displayed on the screen where one image gets blocked out for each eye.

@David S: They’re not horizontally and vertically polarised, they use circular polarisers.

You can test this by wearing a pair of glasses and looking at another pair (both facing same direction) and rotating the glasses you will notice that none of the polarisers goes dark (test for one eye closed each time). Then try doing this with the glasses the other way around, you will notice at 90 degrees rotation that when you close an eye one of glasses turns black (one black for each eye)

Or you could get a bluetooh headset with a bright blue blinking light. Someone had one in a theater i was in.

There was a presentation at Defcon16 about Digital Cinema tech, including the _various_ 3D methods.

Slides are here:
http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16-presentations/defcon-16-renlund.pdf

And there is also a video, which may be floating around the net somewhere.

Agreed with Ben Ryves.
I worked at a place that was ramping up production of it’s 3D capable digital cinima projectors.(Maybe for Avatar :S either way it was crazy, we went from 100 something a month to 4-5 hundred) I read as many technical documents on it as I could. The projectors we built had circular polarizers.

@daryl: Sure, and I have no problem with people taking a bat to parked cars, since all they have to do is go to their insurance company and get it reimbursed. No harm done.

so many horrible analogies in these comments.

clever hack.

@mugewell
there is a video – right off of the defcon website.
https://media.defcon.org/dc-16/video/Defcon16-Mike_Renlund-The_Big_Picture.m4v

Nothing give me more inspiration than desire to screw someone :)

I’d say using this is clearly illegal because it interferes with a business willfully and I’m sure there are laws for that for centuries already, and I hope the cops caps the ones doing this kind of stuff, not deadly of course, and they should be easy to spot so easy to catch.

Man, shutter glasses for 3D at a theater seems weird, thought it was cheaper just to put the circular polarizer in front of the projector and give out those circular polarization glasses like Real3D uses.

Drone has definatly chosen the best name so far.

Even better use for this technology – move houses can double the number of screens just by projecting two movies at once on each screen. (The glasses you get determine which movie you see.)

If you want to see a chick flick and your date wants to see an action movie – no problem.
Screenings of movies about smurfs, barney or other toddler brain-rot could allow the parent to see something else.

Of course one would have to wear headphones to get the soundtrack – but that could be broadcast to your bluetooth headset (seems like everyone has those permanently implanted nowadays.)

@DeadlyFoez

Looks like I’m not the only one who still uses a Sony Clie!

Lol, I’m going out on a limb here guessing one of the reasons for making something like this is using the glasses you ‘forgot’ to return when leaving the cinema at home.

Users of this device that disrupt moviegoers should deserve a free eBay “Kick your ass” coupon:

http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/otherzine4/auction.html

It is sad to hear that users of this device disrupt moviegoers.But they should not screw people’s money and time.