(Featured image from the Cleveland Clinic video).
New Youtube channel for VR 3D SBS videos
I have created a new Youtube channel specifically for VR 3D SBS videos viewable with Google Cardboard-style viewers.
Visit the channel on Youtube at Coldstreams3D and click Subscribe! Thanks!
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Daydream VR Headset by Google – for new Pixel phones
The new Google Daydream VR Headset is said to work while wearing eyeglasses unlike most VR Viewers. The headset is designed to work only with “Daydream-ready” smart phones, which appear to be the Google Pixel and some Moto Z phones, at this time (late 2016). Future phones from other manufacturers will presumably be compatible. “Daydream” is not just the headset but a set of hardware features built in to compatible phones, plus Daydream software apps too.
- Google Product Information page
- Amazon page for buying – Click on the “New”, other sellers page, for $70+ price points.
- Google Store page for buying
(Featured photo is from the Google product web site.)
Movie theater hands out wrong 3D glasses
We attended a viewing of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in RealD 3D.
The good news first: this movie makes excellent use of 3D and “theater space” placing not only moving objects, but occasionally actors, in front of the screen. This is perhaps the best done 3D effects and usage we have seen in 3D movies recently. Well done!
Incredibly, the movie theater handed out green/magenta analglyph glasses rather than the polarized clear glasses used for RealD. I took this photo with my smart phone to prove they did this.
As a friend put it, this is both hilariously silly and stupid at the same time. Most of us (me included) had not removed the glasses from the plastic packaging until the start of the movie. Sitting through 35 minutes of 2D commercials and previews, I did not want to smudge the glasses with my fingers.
Why does a theater even stock green/magenta anaglyph glasses? This blows the mind.
It took about 10 minutes into the movie for one staff member to hand out proper RealD glasses in place of the anaglyph glasses. We got to watch the first 10 minutes as a very fuzzy experience.
This was not a particularly “regal” viewing experience (hint hint). Sadly, this sort of mistake may discourage patrons from viewing 3D movies, for which patrons pay a premium price yet receive poor customer service. (Neither the theater nor the national chain apologized for the mistake.)
Snapchat Spectacles support 3rd party prescription lenses
Snapchat’s Spectacles are dark glasses with integrated camera, for recording life’s activities. Interesting idea. Like most dark glasses, they are for those who do not need corrective lenses.
On the plus side, the lenses in Spectacles may be swapped out and replaced with corrective lenses prescribed by an optomerist. You then end up with prescription dark glasses integrated in to the Spectacles:
“To swap out Spectacles lenses for prescription lenses, consult a professional ABO-certified optician for guidance.
Please Note: Rx total power cannot exceed -5 diopter”
Source: Spectacles Support
Those who ordinarily wear corrective lenses typically buy snap on dark lenses that go over their existing corrective lenses. Or purchase a set of corrective dark lenses.
Snapchat Spectacles are targeted at a specific demographic (from the Snapchat web site):
Snapchat recognizes the need to support those wearing corrective lenses, including with in this demographic, by making it possible to use prescription lenses in their product.
Tech companies that miss these large market opportunities risk alienating customers by providing unsatisfactory viewing experiences, which may translate into negative online comments and general disinterest in their products. And that will not be good for profits! I will continue to explore this topic in future posts.
Related: Snapchat Spectacles are not water proof or water resistant which restricts their use cases for those living in wet climates such as the the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
