Imagine watching a film with a friend on the same screen where you watch it through the eyes of the villain, but they have the hero’s perspective.That’s just one of the many uses for Invisivision glasses, a product developed by PipeDream Interactive based in Ontario, Canada.
The ‘smart glasses’ have an additional layer of lenses that can flip up and down, giving viewers two different experiences - or even entirely different films - when staring at a cinema screen.
Fig: Image of 3-D glasses
Lenses range from giving dual perspectives during a movie to providing subtitles for only those that want to see them.
‘When viewing content with Invisivision, the user simply moves the additional lenses in front to reveal hidden content,’
‘Moving the additional lenses back restores the original content.’
The glasses make use of the fact that 3D movies work when two image streams are displayed simultaneously, but they are slightly offset.
‘In 3D entertainment, our brains then combine the two nearly-identical images, and thus depth is created,’ says the company.
Using the two image streams separately, the illusion of two completely different scenes is created.
In addition, having one side of the glasses up and the other down will produce a standard 3D effect.
The ‘smart glasses’ have an additional layer of lenses that can flip up and down, giving viewers two different experiences - or even entirely different films - when staring at a cinema screen.
Fig: Image of 3-D glasses
Lenses range from giving dual perspectives during a movie to providing subtitles for only those that want to see them.
‘When viewing content with Invisivision, the user simply moves the additional lenses in front to reveal hidden content,’
‘Moving the additional lenses back restores the original content.’
The glasses make use of the fact that 3D movies work when two image streams are displayed simultaneously, but they are slightly offset.
‘In 3D entertainment, our brains then combine the two nearly-identical images, and thus depth is created,’ says the company.
Using the two image streams separately, the illusion of two completely different scenes is created.
In addition, having one side of the glasses up and the other down will produce a standard 3D effect.