That Weird Period When Everything Was 3D 

I recorded a really boring video on my 3Ds and turned on 3D mode and called it a "movie" when I was little and forced my family to watch.

The late 2000's-early 2010's was such a surrealist era and its nice to finally see it being covered and addressed!

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Films that actually used 3D immersively were Coraline, Rango, James Cameron's Avatar and Martin Scorsese's Hugo, The How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy, Rise of the Guardians and the first Croods. Some of these had a great director at the helm while others on top of animation had the great Roger Deakins as a visual consultant, helping the films hold up visually both regular and 3D.

It's funny to think that despite the 3DS being one of my favorite systems ever, I rarely ever touched that 3D slider. I wonder how differently the system's history would've been if they didn't have 3D, and just put that money into better specs and materials

As an early 2000s born person, it reminds me of the time when I was a kid in the late 2000s to early 2010s after Avatar became the most financially successful movie of all time, every movie company forced this 3D stuff on us for the next few years, even going as far as to make 3D BluRays and the 3DS as you have iterated. After the trend died, I eventually noticed that they hadn't done much with it since then except for IMAX and local cinemas bringing 3D back just for Avatar screenings.

oh my god this era was hell for me as a child with chronic migraines. My school friends would invite me to a movie and I had to make sure it was 2d otherwise I couldn’t go and I always felt like garbage and would get made fun of. I cannot overstate how excited I was when the 3d cinema experience obsession ended. I remember the dread I felt when I arrived to a screening I assumed was 2d, only to be handed those god awful “real D” glasses at the entrance.. never failed to make me sick

this made me realize i don’t remember what 3d movies look like and now i really wanna rewatch the new avatar in 3d

The only 3D film I ever saw as a kid was Tangled, surprisingly. I had no idea what to expect, and I’ll admit Disney did a great job at incorporating it into the movie. I’ll never forget watching the lantern scene and looking around as it looked like they were literally flying around me. It’s one of the reasons why Tangled became my favorite movie of all time, so despite it being kind of a dumb fad it was amazing to me

I've sadly never experienced that 3D movie experience. However, I do have nostalgic memories of watching Sharkboy and Lavagirl with my siblings. It being ironic or unironic is up to you.

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I was a pretty big fan of the 3D on the 3DS myself, it made catching beetles in Animal Crossing a LOT easier because it was easier to gauge the actual distance between my character and the beetle. Also it was always amazing in Cutscenes

The “new” 3DS greatly improved the viewability of the 3D, where as long as it’s properly calibrated, sensors on the device will track your face and know where to angle the 3D. You have to do an initial calibration when setting it up, and then you can go back to the settings and redo it if you notice issues later. Certain games use it in really nice ways, like many games having their cutscenes animated in 3D, so while playing on my new 3DS LL, I like to turn it on for that spectacle at times, but it gives me a headache if I turn it on for too long, sadly. The face tracking makes it very usable except for that.

I remember having to watch sharkboy and lavagirl as part of an art class, in 9th grade, I remember that we accidentally played the 3D version and the film was slightly blurry because of it, the problem was fixed later on and we finally played the 2D version.

Spy Kids 3 was my intro to 3D movies and it blew my mind at age 5. Cut to 10 years later and I was cursing myself for not specifying that I wanted to see the 2-D version of the movie and had to pay extra. My DVD copy of Coraline came with the 3-D glasses and I still have them, even though I don't watch it in 3-D anymore

I remember watching the "Journey to the center of the earth" movie at the movie theater when I was a kid. I had forgotten about this movie but as soon as you talked about it I remember the mouthwash scene lmao, you definitely unlocked a lost memory in my brain. This channel is about to blow up as soon as you get more content out, these videos are really cool to binge watch (just watched most of them).

Avatar The Wya of Water was the first 3D movie I've seen in at least over a decade. Honestly I think it was worth it. Some scenes in that movie really benefited from the 3D. James Cameron is probably the only guy that actually likes 3D movies.

I actually like the 3DS' 3D. I don't use it all the time on every game but it's useful when I might need to be able to see depth a bit better, and it looks pretty neat. The intro video for MH3U looks awesome in 3D. Mind you I have the "new" model with the eye tracking 3D.

I remember going to see Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over in theaters with my family when I was little. This was back when 3D glasses were still the classic blue and red tinted kind. Like 2/3 of the way through the movie (pretty sure it was during the buildup to the fight scene at the end), Floop appears on screen and instructs the audience to remove their glasses. Confused looks all around, but when we took them off, our vision was "stained" in blue and red, so we could experience the 3D effect without glasses. That was pretty mind-blowing as a kid, perhaps among my favorite ever theater experiences, even if the movie itself wasn't great.

I remember when 3D movies started becoming extremely popular in the 2010's and people were doing the nerd glasses thing. I was one of those kids who loved mustaches, nerdy glasses, and poop emojis so I can totally relate to that era XD. My dad thought the idea was so cool, that he actually got a 3D TV that we had for a couple of years before he sold it to get an OLED TV that we have now. We still have two copies of avatar because one of them at 3d capabilities and the other was a regular bluray XD. I also remember how cool my 3ds was when it could do a 3d affect without glasses, and I actually still have my 3ds xl from 2012 that I play on. The 3d affect now hurts my eyes on it so I rarely use it. I know the new one has a better one, but I never bothered to upgrade because I really like my original one. 🥰

6:10 To add to that, many people use the 3D Glasses Recycling bin as a regular trash can. The trash is really annoying to clean out. Mostly popcorn and candy wrappers (thankfully no soda/drinks)

i have a vivid memory of going to see a movie with my nana and being horrified when i found out it wasn’t 3D. as a 2002 baby in australia, i basically grew up with only 3D movies so to see it go was dramatic as fuck

In the late 90s/early 00s, there was a weird scratch and sniff fad that literally no one talks about. There were tv events that you could get these scratch and sniff cards for. I think one of them was on Nickelodeon and rugrats was on the card? It’s such a vague memory at this point but I’d love to see someone do a deep dive on that

really wish they would toy around more with 3d i always found it interesting as a kid especially my first experience with avatar and always having trouble keeping my glasses on cuz theyd just fall right off but after that i had a short obsession with 3d to having my older brothers friend collecting 3d movies and glasses always hearing about how much he wants to experiment with 3d to wanting a 3ds for chirstmas and finally blessed with one on easter out of all holidays which i still have and always remember i have once a year thinking about how cool it was having a strange period in time that i got to experience first hand. lets just hope were still alive to see if 4d can be a real thing lmao

I'm actually glad there's not a lot of 3d anymore, since I cannot see out of my right eye, resulting in 3d just not working for me. Since I can't see 3d, it makes me feel a bit left out. I wish someone could create a type of 3d that is all digital, and does not require 2 eyes in order to see it. When I saw star tours at disneyland, it wasn't as impactful for me as it might've been for other people, but I did notice something. When I looked at it without the glasses, I could see 2 images, but with the glasses, I only saw 1. 3d glasses do have an effect on me, and seeing star tours with the glasses was better than without, but I still couldn't see in 3d, since I was only able to see 1 image.

I got really severe migraines as a kid so a simple headache escalated quickly. I wish there had been some kind of warning on the box of 3DS's because I couldn't figure out why my head hurt so much and why it was hard to see. I only put the pieces together when I played for a long period of time and when I looked up everything was blurry and I had a pounding headache. It's safe to say I avoid 3D things like the plague now.

I’m just popping in to say that the “New” 3DS had a much better 3D screen that could be viewed from any angle and didn’t give me headaches or eye strains like the original did. The 3D on the OG models did suck though and I never used it but I used the 3D on the “New” 3DS quite a bit.

Any of y'all remember when Nickelodeon made "smellovision" movies which were just scratch and sniff cards that came in the DVD case of the movie, and a little symbol would pop up on screen to tell you when to scratch and sniff a particular spot on the card? I only remember it coming with Rugrats Go Wild and being very disappointed that the "Phil's Feet" scratch and sniff section only smelled mildly bad. There was also a jar of jelly or peanutbutter I think, and that one was also disappointingly mild.

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Just found this channel today and I can’t stop watching your videos. You’re so down to earth and it’s awesome seeing someone talk about nostalgia from my era instead of 90s nostalgia

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Your videos are excellent and your delivery of scripts is superb, capitalizing on the early 2000s is something that hasn’t been covered well by many people and there’s a wealth of really bizarre and fun topics which you seem to also have found interesting, keep doing what you’re doing!!

This channel was literally made for me. I’m surprised it’s so new. I can’t wait to see where this goes. You’re already my favorite RU-vidr

Congratulations for 1K. It's crazy how yesterday you only had about 600.

Been having a hard time finding good nostalgic video essays but yours always seem to hit home! Love your videos keep it up!

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the psychic damage i received at the mention of making nerd glasses from the reald glasses 😭 i can only remember one movie ive ever seen in 3d though, and it was frozen. my family donated to a canned food drive at a theatre so we got free tickets for any movie, so of course we opted to see frozen in 3d since it would be free! i think the snow effects worked gorgeously with the 3d effect (the let it go sequence especially was wonderful in 3d), but i cant remember any other parts that utilised 3d as well. im honestly kinda glad that we left the 3d craze behind since theres no real charm to it anymore (imo), but i do like that the 3d craze gave us the nintendo 3ds, aka my favourite console ever. also just a note, there was an updated 3ds that improved on the 3d feature !! it used a special type of camera to track where your head was and would adjust the 3d display accordingly. granted i have a new nintendo 3ds xl, and i still rarely use the 3d because it gives me headaches after long uses, but i find myself using the 3d more on my new 3ds than my old one because its highly improved

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I love your thumbnails so much

I used to pop out the lenses and paint my nerd glasses with nail polish! I would also glue old earrings or charm bracelet charms to the sides!! I made a Halloween themed pair that I was particularly proud of!!

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Started watching your channel recently. Def becoming one of my fav

as a kid who wore chunky glasses i lowkey hated going to 3d movies because i had to force one of the glasses over the other if i wanted to see and experience 3d simultaneously

It’s like you lived in my brain and are now covering all of the topics that made up my childhood and I could not be more grateful ❤ I’m always so happy to see a new video of yours! Please keep up the amazing work❤❤

I've been binge watching your videos, and I gotta say how underrated your channel is, deserves much more attention :)

the music from The Sims DS game in the background of this video is taking me back (just binged all your videos, i love them)

Ah, that big blue return bin for the 3D glasses brings back such memories!

another great video! I really hope that more people will discover your channel soon!

God I remember watching the One Direction movie in 3D in the cinema and it was really weird because all of their on stage segments and live performances were edited so obviously to work for 3D (the moment when the red and white balloons were thrown out during WMYB is seared into my memory) but the rest of the time when the boys went home and we just saw their off time, it was really weird since there was no point in it (although seeing Niall Horan on the tour bus in 3D mesmerised 9 y/o me)

This is a great video! I’m glad I found your channel. Keep it up!

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Omg, I just felt the nostalgia really hard. This was exactly my childhood / teenage years. While I'm from Europe, the development was almost the same as you described it in the video. I went to the cinema a lot with my parents and I think there were a few years where I only saw films in 3D. I still have a bag full of 3D glasses that I need to recycle, but I somehow missed the point a few years ago when I had less time and the pandemic came up. (We kept them after the film as I think our movie theater charged like 1€ for a new pair. Obviously we still always forgot them or went with friends so now I have like 20.) The 3DS was sadly out of our budget, but I remember that my cousin got it and I wanted it so badly - but only because it was the most gorgeous metallic blue🤣I played some Mario Kart on hers but I think I might've broken the record for the person with the fastest time to give up due to feeling sick because of the 3D, I didn't even make it through one round I think. The 4D cinemas I also remember, if in 30 years or so people look back on this decade they won't believe it. These are the weirdest stuff ever, not to mention the places you could find them. I was a very anxious child (and still have anxiety issues, look at that, how surprising), so everything that was that unpredictable and made to catch you a little bit off guard was the true horror to me. Yup, that's right: a normal 3D movie was fine but the pure thought of a movie theatre with moving seats scared the sh*t out of me🤣 Anyway, this didn't add much to the conversation but I just wanted to share my experiences and help the algorithm. Because I think your videos need more attention😊

This channel is WAYYYYY underrated only 236 subs? Only a few likes on every video?? Bruh

Love ur vids- your crazy underrated

Great video essay and incredibly well done.

I know that DreamWorks would include scenes where you see a black barrier and then it would be removed, and how there are m9ments where it felt like they did try and out that whole 3d effect like its going straight to your face.... good times

How does this channel have so little subs? These videos are great

Great video, also i remember as a kid dollywood had a 4-D journey to the center of the earth attraction. Too young to remember if it had the mouthwash scene though lol

Love the Sims 2 DS music!! Just found your channel and immediately subscribed (:

Great video! I absolutley love all things 3D, almost irrationally so. During the early days of Covid, I built a home theater and bought a 3D projector, and now I collect any and all 3D blurays and go to the theater to see everything released in 3D. I know most people hate the format and claim that 3D is dead, but there is still a dedicated group of diehard 3D enthusiasts

I'm gonna leave this comment as a marker for this channels future. Currently, it's December 30, 2022 and this channel has 4.1 K subscribers. I've only watched two videos on this channel so far and I'm planning on watching the rest of them. The content and style on here is simultaneously interesting and relaxing, and really resonates with me as a fellow gen z member. The quality of the videos is beyond that of channels with 100 times the subscribers. Keep up the fantastic content and I think you'll have a great future!

Congrats on 1k subs

I find it funny that you have that Thumbs up boi on all of you’re thumbnails so far Also I just found you’re content hours ago by the time I’m typing this out I’m liking it a lot (sorry if I typed your wrong Grammar is tough on my monkebrain)

Nice music!! Always fun to find a fellow sims 2 ds fan in the wild

I've stumbled across a number of your videos, it's interesting because they always make me feel old. It's fascinating when I hear 20 something's wax nostalgic about something as recent as the year 2005; basically what feels like 3 years ago or so. To me the styles, trends, etc have barely changed since the mid 90s. Basically nothing newer than about 1995 can ever seem old or nostalgic, it's all still too modern. Films look the same since then (basically when CGI started to be used en masse). Music stylistically took on its modern pop sound that basically hasn't changed since about then. Video games became 3D polygonal around that time too which is still the same. Cheers!

Welp, I just found a new severely underrated channel to subscribe to. Man, I'm on a roll when it comes to subscribing towards small channels.

I remember getting the 3DS when I was 11 in 2012 when ACNL came out, excitedly holding my new game and 3DS in the car and then when getting home, putting in the game after starting up the 3DS and turning on the 3D feature I was blown away, and then quickly turned it off an hour into playing

Damn, this channel is underrated! I gained a new favorite channel and you gain a new sub!!

I also remember watching Sharkboy and Lavagirl on TV and being very confused, mostly at the close-up scenes.. Didn't know that Sharkboy and Lavagirl was originally a 3D film

I just found my new favorite channel!

I'm new and excited to see your channel grow I love what you have so far. I liked and subscribed too. Keep making great videos please. 😁

the music you used made me search up sims 2 ds music just to be sure i wasn't losing my gourd love it and the video :p

So my mom and I just watched the new Little Mermaid in 3D, we didn't know it was a 3D showing until we got handed the glasses. Thankfully it wasn't too jarring, I actually forgot it was a 3D showing halfway in. Sharkboy and Lavagirl was a trip to watch in 3D, but the Dark Knight Rises in 4D? With the moving seats and whatnot? That was wild

I don't even remember seeing shark boy and lava girl but I remember having those specific 3d glasses...

I remember shark boy and lava girl and journey to the center of the earth and the whacky 3-D glasses haha from my childhood. I also have a 3ds that I got for my 12th birthday in 2011 and I thought it was the coolest things ever. I like it when you talk about the history of 3d. I didn’t know that 3D goes back to time, interesting. I remember going to the imax theater watching movies in 3D for the glasses and making some nerd glasses when I was a tween in the early 2010s.

Hi! I actually did my undergrad thesis on 3D films (specifically animation) and wanted to share some fun facts: * The people who made "The Power of Love" actually debuted a smaller 3D short film a few months prior to their movie release. There is also evidence of some other test clips being shown in New York in 1915. * 3D films can either be natively shot in 3D (with two cameras, one for each eye view) or converted in post-production. Quality on the latter varied greatly - Clash of the Titans was universally panned for its poor post-conversion. Most hand-drawn films made for 3D are conversion projects. * Films for kids (aka Pixar and Disney) intentionally turn down the 3D because children perceive depth more strongly than adults. This is because the distance between their eyes is shorter, because they have such small noggins. * Because 3D can cause headaches, most stereo artists try not to do more than 4-5 minutes of intense 3D at a time. This is why it's so popular for theme park rides (high intensity for a short duration is more exciting) and longer 3D films have stretches of limited 3D to avoid audience fatigue. * Polarized 3D glasses work by having both eye views projected with a special filter in front of the projector. One lens is polarized slightly differently than the other, so only one view is seen through each eye. To oversimplify, it's like if one lens had horizontal shutters and the other one had vertical shutters, so only horizontal or vertical light can get through the shutters to each eye. This is known as a "passive" 3D tool, as the glasses don't have any moving parts to create the 3D. * Home 3DTV glasses are expensive because they are an "active shutter" system. Let's say you're watching a film that's 24 frames per second. The glasses have actual shutters on them and momentarily block one eye while showing the other eye an image, switching between eyes faster than you can process. So a 24fps film will have to blink 48 times per second to show both views! * The 3DS uses a specialized filter to show 3D without glasses. It can actually display 3D at five specific angles, but the effect is strongest in the center. This technology is also in use at Universal Hollywood as "faux windows" in the Mario Kart queue. * If you order a bunch of 3D glasses for your thesis presentation, Amazon will send them in a massively oversized box for no reason!

I wonder how much of this 3D stuff is going to become lost media. I'm sure the TV stuff already has. I believe there is a way you can view 3D movies through VR. But a lot of home releases used the Red & Blue glasses. I like to think there's some rich 3D enthusiast, collecting the film reels for these. I really liked 3D in this era. Particularly when movies didn't shove it in your face. And I love my 3DS!

i distinctly remember re-watching Coraline for the first time in my pre-teen years (because i finally outgrew my fear of the movie) and finding a little 3D dvd and glasses in our Coraline Blu-ray copy. i put the glasses on for a moment, watched the opening song, then promptly watched the rest of the movie in 2d. it was such a weird time

This video was amazing!!

I remember seeing 3D cell phones at one point in a mall kiosk.

This channel only has 13 videos but i already love it

I'm just so glad RU-vid recommended me your videos to ignore my mental breakdown. You voice is so relaxing, thank you!

Do you have any past experience with content creation on RU-vid or other platforms? Your videos are of very high quality, so I would be pleasantly surprised if this was your first shot at RU-vid! Either way, keep up the amazing work! 👍

I loved watching Transformers movies in 3D, and nowadays I still love 3D stuff in general. I guess it's been hardwired in my brain because of the massive push 3D stuff had during my childhood.

You have so much potential as a channel-

i saw barbie magic of the pegasus in 3d and charlie and the chocolate factory in imax 3d as a kid, and maybe some others i don't remember. the thing that bugged me about it was that i already wore regular glasses, and it was super difficult to keep the 3d glasses on over my own + it messed with my vision :/ i was always jealous of my siblings who could watch the movie Properly.

This channel is great I can’t wait for you to blow up

Currently at 09:15 and I have to say I have three 3DS, I've been playing regularly since 2012 and I've always LOVED the 3D feature. Until a few years ago I never turned it off unless I wanted to show games to friends. Now I turn it off while doing homebrew stuff or sometimes when playing games that are only partially 3D, but I always turn it on when playing full 3D games. Some scenes look simply amazing and I don't get why everyone who doesn't get a headache still hates the 3D effect. Also, about cinema 3D glasses. I repainted them into superhero glasses with stuff like a "targeting system" on the inside of the glasses and painted parts of the outside glass with glitter colours. I still have all of them

whats so funny about you mentioning that avatar was a movie that was provided for 3d was how a couple of people told me that watching the second movie in 3d was a good idea and after doing it, it was such a surreal experience: the last time i had put on 3d glasses was maybe 2013-2016

I've never seen journey so thank you for introducing me to Brendan Fraser spitting on the camera. It's not something I knew i needed

When SHarkboy and Lavagirl released, I was like three months old, so I discovered it several years later, and it became one of my favorite movies at the time I just discovered everything you said about it and it blew my mind, I had no idea

When I was a kid, I rented a Barbie DVD from the library. There was an option to watch the film in 3D, but it didn’t come with glasses (the previous owner probably lost them or something before giving it to the library). Being the weird kid that I was, I still put it on 3D mode because I thought the red and blue outline on the animation looked cool. 😂

My first Real-D 3D movie was Guardians of Ga'hoole, and honestly the visuals still hold up, even when it catered to the 3D trend

ik ur getting a lot of these comments (granted ig it's not a bad thing tho), but I just wanted to say the incredible level of polish and production value in your videos is outstanding. Im boutta use my 3d glasses to manifest the amityville 3 demon to get you more subscribers.

I am slowly watching all the vids, im running out of Jelly! Sharkboy and lava girl and spy kids were the pinnacle of a kid of the late 90s early 2000s. Keep on being jelly!! ❤

I didn't know Sharkboy and Lavagirl showed in 3D but I always watched it come on in Disney Channel, loved that movie. I still have my 3DS but like many people I keep the 3D slider off. I did try playing with 3D on in earlier 3D games but I got eye strain and a headache. Loved the video!