Leap Into the Vibe of 3D
The Sins of 3D #3 — The 3D Conversion Myth Part 2 What if some of the most celebrated examples of native 3D cinema weren’t entirely native after all? For many stereoscopic enthusiasts, James Cameron’s Avatar represents the gold standard of native 3D filmmaking. And for good reason. Cameron helped redefine how modern stereoscopic movies … Read more
From Dual Pixel 3D and DUAL lenses to Spatial Video, VR180 and EOS VR: Canon is quietly building one of the most complete 3D imaging ecosystems. For years, stereoscopic photographers have had to build their own ecosystems: Two cameras. Two lenses. Synchronization hardware. Custom rigs. Alignment software. Special workflows. And, frequently, a considerable amount of … Read more
3D Blu-ray collections are not dead — but playing them properly on a modern PC has become unnecessarily difficult. SyLC 3D Player is a new free and open-source project specifically designed to solve that problem, decoding both views of MVC video and outputting real frame-packed 3D on modern Windows systems. And it goes considerably further, … Read more
The Sins of 3D #3: The 3D Conversion Myth There is probably no label that has damaged the perception of stereoscopic conversion more than these two words: Converted to 3D. For many 3D enthusiasts, there has been an almost automatic assumption for years: Shot in native 3D = real 3D = good. Converted to 3D … Read more
The Sins of 3D #2 For years, Side-by-Side (SBS) has been treated almost as if it were the natural format for stereoscopic 3D video. Download a 3D video and there is a good chance it will be SBS. Upload stereoscopic footage and SBS is often the first option people consider. Many 3D displays even include … Read more
The Sins of 3D #1 A quick note before we begin: This article is not a criticism of people who enjoy cross-eyed viewing as a way to experience 3D without a 3D display. The parody image is just that — a joke, with no intention to offend. The issue discussed here is not the viewing … Read more
There are games that look good in 3D, games that make excellent use of depth, and then there are those rare titles that immediately make you wonder just how far 3D can actually go. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order belongs firmly in that last category. Within the first few minutes, it becomes obvious that we … Read more
Two community-developed, open-source tools offer fresh ways to align, edit and share stereoscopic images—from StereoFine’s 16-bit colour workflow to StereoMate’s extensive photo and video editing features. Both are free, MIT-licensed and process images locally. Their strengths, however, point toward different workflows. StereoFine puts particular emphasis on photographic output, reproducible adjustments and measurement uncertainty. StereoMate offers … Read more
The six-inch ELF-MN1 brings Sony’s Spatial Reality Display technology to a smaller desktop format, while an XYN update expands the tools for turning real objects into digital assets. Sony is developing both sides of its spatial-content ecosystem: the tools that create 3D objects and the displays that make them visible without a headset. Two announcements … Read more
From XREAL AURA and new Android XR games to Vision Pro improvements and live immersive cameras, spatial computing is expanding how we watch, play and create in 3D. Meanwhile, Steam Frame highlights an opportunity that remains unfinished: bringing stereoscopic depth to conventional games. Spatial computing is advancing across several fronts. New devices are making immersive … Read more
Another contender enters the glasses-free 3D gaming market, combining a 27-inch 4K display, eye tracking, Mini LED backlighting and dedicated 3D gaming software. But how much of its impressive technology can actually be enjoyed in stereoscopic mode? The glasses-free 3D gaming monitor market continues to expand, and the latest developments suggest that manufacturers are increasingly … Read more
Yesterday, while investigating the newly announced Acer Aspire G 3D 16, we discovered something unexpected. The Aspire wasn’t Acer’s first recent 3D product to move away from the familiar SpatialLabs hardware branding. A few months earlier, Acer had quietly announced another glasses-free 3D display: the Predator XB273K 3D. And the more we investigated it, the … Read more
At IFA 2026 we found some interesting new 3D displays, including Samsung’s enormous MicroLED and TCL’s new 8K 3D monitors. We thought we had seen them all. Apparently, we missed one. And ironically, it came from a company whose 3D products we know particularly well: Acer. The Acer Aspire G 3D 16 (AG3D16-81M) is a … Read more
3D development hasn’t stopped. While recent demonstrations at IFA 2026 from TCL CSOT and Hisense don’t necessarily represent products you’ll soon be able to buy, they show that major display manufacturers continue exploring ways to overcome some of the limitations traditionally associated with stereoscopic displays. Rather than reinventing 3D, these prototypes combine it with technologies … Read more