The holidays were here and it was almost 2010 and I was not a hundred percent ready to show the guests that were coming over in a few days. About a few weeks prior which was right after the first snowfall I needed to get glasses for everyone that was coming over and I searched the internet and went to eBay and searched for the Nvidia 3D Discover glasses and was surprised not to see any. I kept searching for anaglyph glasses and stumbled across some lots of them. I found a seller from China who sold a hundred of them with free shipping for a little over twenty dollars I said this is too good to pass up. I read the sellers feedback and reviews and saw that the seller was legit and purchased one set of a hundred anaglyph glasses. I was so happy to be able to give anaglyph glasses with a disc of 3D ready photos to various friends and family. I was too excited to wait for these glasses and kept a pair of my “Spy Kids 3D” glasses in my pocket with a flash drive of pictures so I could show people at my job. When I showed a couple of fellow associates the pictures on the computer there were amazed and asked “How did you do this?” A feeling of joy saturated my emotions and it felt great. I saw that this could a good path to be involved with this type of technology. I went over to a digital picture frame that had a USB input and tested the pictures on that and showed some other workers and they thought it was cool. It seemed that the 3D got people more immersed into the pictures and caused a different kind of reaction then my 2D photos did. I went out later that day and purchase an inexpensive small picture frame so I could also use that when guest come over during the holidays. I thought maybe I could print these pictures so I put the flashed drive directly into my printer I had and all I saw was a black screen for a minute so I pulled it out. I didn’t know what to do about printing so I wasn’t worried about that. Now the anaglyph glasses were in transit from China and I had the Blu-Ray player set up and also a little picture frame to show a crowd when they came over. I started to research about printing 3D pictures and saw that there was a place that I could upload my picture and the lenticular prints would be created and shipped for a somewhat of a hefty fee from Tokyo, Japan. This processed seemed painful so I didn’t want anything to do with it. I felt like maybe I could find a better solution but none were apparent. I decided to drive to the local IMAX Theater and purchase a week and a half ahead of time the tickets for James Cameron’s “Avatar” because it was going to be sold out. I purchased tickets for the first morning show of its released to go with three friends and secured that day off of work and I also purchased three more tickets to go see it three more times back to back on the Wednesday after the initial release. I thought it was a crazy idea but I had a feeling inside me that it was worth it. It was a few days before the release of “Avatar” and I had a dream that I met James Cameron and told him about myself. I wish I could have showed him some 3D pictures because I know he would have appreciated it. Almost every channel on the television was talking about the massive snow storm that was approaching and it was going to be intense. The snow arrived and I was nervous about getting to the theater with my two friends so I called the theater just to make sure that they were going to be opened. The morning came and my one friend with his compact car attempted to get to my house but kept getting stuck. I called my other friend with an SUV and asked why his wasn’t coming with that instead of waiting for the compact car. He was hesitant just because it was a new car and decided that he no choice but to get us or we would not make it to the movie. The snow was dense and there was so much of it. It was hard to get to my place so I had to walk towards the main road to get picked up. We stopped at a convenient store to get some goodies and to park the compact car prior to getting in the SUV. We arrived at the movie twelve minutes prior to starting and the parking lot was not even really plowed and everyone was having trouble so we parked and ran in the theater. Thank goodness we pre-purchased the tickets because people were being told that the show was sold out. The ticket was ripped and the 3D glasses were handed to us and we go the last of the perfect center seats that were available and were finally able to take a moment to relax because we made it to the IMAX Theater. The movie was of pristine 3D quality and was a blast. I took of my glasses for a minute during the film to see what the parallaxing looked like to get an idea of how the images worked. I realized the parallaxing was so great that your eye muscles didn’t have work hard or too much compared to the few other 3D films that were out there. The movie ended and it was time for lunch. Driving through the snow was not fun but we good some food and I was back at my house to ponder what I saw. It was kind of nice to have some 3D shooting experience because I felt like I understood the direction 3D was kind of going into. Now the question was “how do I watch “Avatar” at home in 3D”. I didn’t even want to think how long that was going to be. I went out the next day and got some snow pictures in the morning and surprisingly got some decent results.
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