Linus?

@TheamazingGrell sorry, I gave up on this, and I don’t have the bandwidth atm to devote to this. Best of luck!

Baba Booey Mustache

Wasn't it always weird? XD

There are small holes in the optics housing which are designed for cleaning with compressed air (photo lens quality air.) If you look at the video, at 5:30 I'm pointing to a plastic cube enclosure that holds the LCD attached to the lens assembly. On the sides of that enclosure, there are small rectangles of electrical tape. Carefully peel them back to reveal the blowout holes. The holes are big enough to insert the thin hollow tube that is supplied with a spray can of compressed air. Make sure to open two holes, one for the air inlet and one for an air outlet. Use short puffs of air so there is no condensation from the cold of air expansion. When you're done, you can reapply the same electrical tape, or cut new rectangles of fresh tape.

This was PBS (still dorky).

It's an Epson display... discontinued in the late 90's. 1.3" diag. 640x480 pixels. This one came from inside a Virtual Research V6 HMD. The same display was used in the Virtuality Visette Pro.

Thanks so much! I haven't been able to see any 2 inch displays or under that were 480p or over.

+Filipe Lana ps - i didn't use vob2mpg on my w10 computer at home. used dvd2vobmpg or something like that. vob2mpg crashed. uploading a video to show to you.

+Filipe Lana Managed it. Duh. By opening the script instead of the video. But now i'm stuck in another problem. Managed to use vob2mpb in another computer to "rip" the 2d and 3d video, but the 2d starts 25 frames earlier, and now i need to cut it in order to sync. But how i do it without re-encoding ?

+Filipe Lana avisynth.nl/index.php/Trim

+Sushant Kataria This process converts Anaglyph 3D into side by side or top-bottom. It doesn't convert from top-bottom to side by side, but that would be easy to do with AVISYNTH. A good toolkit: www.pantarheon.org/AviSynth3DToolbox/ Or try this very simple sample script: DirectShowSource("TopBottomVideo.m4v";,fps=30, ConvertFPS=True) #Extract top and bottom views as separate videos top=Crop(0,0,0,height/2) bottom=Crop(0,height/2,0,height/2) #Place videos side by side StackHorizontal(top,bottom)

True, but you'd be surprised to learn the effect increases as technology enhances.

***** Surprised nobody caught that before. Not really a flaw in the technique, but rather a glitch in my demo. Bear with me on this explanation. The source video files were either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4, I forget, but both motion compression techniques have key frames spaced a few seconds apart. That's fine when you're playing continuously from start to finish, and works fine when you process a whole sequence with AVISynth. However, when I scroll to a particular still frame in VirtualDubMod, as you see in the demo around 2:30, unless I've scrolled exactly to a MPEG key frame, the pair of video files wind up a few frames out of sync, and at the still frame shown, the chroma is off by several frames, coloring a red blotch where the alien's head was about 1/10 of a second before. To do a walk through demo pausing and scrolling the AVISynth process I really should have converted the files to a format that doesn't use motion compression, perhaps M-JPEG or just RAW. Since I started with Blu-Ray, the converted files would have been huge. Five years ago, when I made this demo, I didn't have the disc space (or the patience) to do the conversion. Someday I'll redo this technique, probably in After Effects, and now that I've got a surfeit of disc terabytes and a decent render rack, the whole thing will look a lot better. Originally I considered using After Effects, but decided to do it all in free-ware. AVISynth and VirtualDubMod have become fairly stale, so it's probably time to move on. Is the free-ware aspect of this technique important to the people who are trying to use this technique? In any event, this is really a compositing technique, perfect for After Effects. If you can read the commented code at vrtifacts.com/dump-those-silly-colored-3d-glassess/ try to ignore all the special case if-else stuff that deals with different colored glasses and left-right swapping. The meat of the technique is fairly easy to grasp. In the past five years, so many 3D movies have been released in a side-by-side format, not anaglyph. For the most part, this technique is only useful for "rescuing" old 3D movie releases only available in anaglyph where the studios have either lost the dual film strips, or refuse to restore and release them. There's quite a few that fit the bill from the 50's 3D bubble, again in the 70's, and also many early 3D pr0n flix. Easy access to these on VHS, but that's the hardest format to do a decent conversion. 16mm and 35mm prints are out there and in the studio vaults, but not so easy to come by. Thanks for the heads up!

VRtifacts Wow, thanks for replying to a comment on such an old video! So, are you saying that the color issues won't be there in the final product? It could have been my fault too, I realized after that my 2D movie starting time was a couple frames off of my 3D movie and haven't redone it yet. Also, I thought that converting the video was bad because it messed with the colors. I'm guessing that freeware is important for this because, as you said, many movies are available in side-by-side so this mostly is useful for people who bought the anaglyph version and later want side-by-side.

***** Be aware that sometimes the 2D release is edited slightly differently than the 3D release, resulting in the videos becoming a little (or a lot) out of sync. Your best bet is to line up both videos on a video editor timeline to verify they stay in sync from beginning to end. Maybe use the free version of Lightworks? I've found that most of the edit differences are in the opening credits and/or the first few minutes of the film. The closing credits are often different, but unless there's something interesting going on there, you could ignore them. As mentioned before, most video editing software has time sync problems with MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 source files. You may not even be able to reliably sync the two files until you've converted them to M-JPEG or other non-motion based compression formats. Adobe Premiere and After Effects are really wonky with the motion compression formats.

VRtifacts Yeah, it seems for me there's just 3 extra black frames at the beginning of the 2D version. In my case I have a DVD, so it has MPEG-2 source files (I'm used MakeMKV). I'm using VirtualDubMod like in this tutorial. I'm not actually sure how to fix the frame issue, VirtualDub doesn't seem to like me opening MKVs directly and VOB2MPG resulted in corrupted files for me. how would you recommend fixing this?

***** Suggest you convert your sources first. Try Avidemux, avidemux.sourceforge.net/ and use the video output format (FF)HuffYUV. It's a lossless compression and should be frame accurate. However the files will be big!

ken79491261 Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.

VRtifacts thank you!

@@VRtifacts Broken again

How are you gonna get that?