How do 3D glasses work?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

3D glasses. Those little paper spectacles with one red lens and one blue. Put ’em on, and suddenly, POW! Images seem to leap right off the screen! Do these glasses play magical mind tricks on our brain? Do they give our eyeballs multi-dimensional superpowers? For a lens into how it all works, we talked to UW-Madison physicist Pupa Gilbert.

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0:00.0	Is this thing on?
0:07.2	Yes.
0:08.8	This is an important message for listeners far and wide.
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0:35.6	and a special thank you message from me.
0:38.4	Your favorite Brainsan universe fan and alien friend.
0:43.1	Do not wait.
0:44.6	Jet over to Brainson.org slash donate.
0:49.8	From the brains behind Brainson, this is the moment of um.
0:56.0	Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Goldfields.
1:17.5	Um.
1:19.6	Oh man, I am super excited for this 3D showing of my favorite movie, Ratatouille. I got my popcorn, got these cool 3D glasses.
1:29.8	Hang on.
1:30.7	Got to unfold them.
1:32.9	Oh, no, I got popcorn butter on my ear.
1:36.1	Okay, here we go.
1:38.7	Whoa, that piece of cheese is coming right out of the screen at me.
1:42.9	Woo!
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