Watching 3D Videos Simplified

Have you ever thought how interesting it could be if you

could play your presentation or show a demo of your product in 3D? It not only

sounds fascinating, but also adds to your productivity. For instance, how about

explaining those complicated engineering drawings in 3D so that your viewers can

see that extra dimension and understand it quickly? How about playing the

virtual tour video of your new office building which your architect has just

handed over to you in 3D? Or watching “3 Idiots” movie DVD (well, not available

in the market yet) in 3D?

We used a fully functional 14-day trial version of TriDef

application to achieve this. It can be downloaded from the link given in the

box. You can get the full version of the application from the same site for

around Rs 2400. This application lets you play any standard 2D video, image or

even play games in full 3D. It also lets you use Google Earth in 3D.

You can select the 3D capability of your hardware and

utilize it; or else rely on the standard two-color anaglyphic glasses. We talked

about presentations in 3D, but this software doesn't natively support this

functionality. Instead, we found this out when we converted our slides to PNG

and JPEG images and played them using this software. Let's see how you can use

some of its features.

After installing the software, run the display setup from the Utilities folder. The software will try to detect your 3D hardware and if it doesn't find one, it will show this screen.

Here you can manually select your 3D hardware. And if you don't have any, select anaglyphic glasses.

The drop down list shows different options for anaglyphic glasses. For example, red/cyan or green/purple, etc. Select the color that matches with the glasses you have.

After you can run the TriDef 3D experience application, you will see this screen. Here you can select the application you want to run.

Clicking on 'Play 3D game' will show you all the games on your machine that are supported by TriDef. You will also see Google Earth, if installed.

TriDef has more than 60 pre-configured game profiles and you can even make one by clicking on the Add button. You'll get the above screen, where you can create custom profiles.

This is how Google Maps looks in 3D. You can run it in 3D by just clicking on the Experience Google Earth button in the TriDef 3D experience window.

To run a video in 3D, simply run the TriDef 3D movie player and select a 2D movie file.