How to Make 3D Glasses With Home Supplies

Those cardboard spectacles that came packaged with a 3D movie can easily be misplaced. This article will instruct you how to make your own substitute using common household supplies and no special tools.

It is possible to make handheld 3D glasses from supplies that you have right at home - a piece of clear plastic, and two permanent markers.

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Steps

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    Gather the supplies. Find an appropriate piece of plastic from a discarded CD or DVD cover. You will also need two permanent markers: one red marker and one blue marker. If you have dry erase markers, they will work in place of permanent markers, but may rub off accidentally.
    2
    Measure and mark off two areas on the plastic. Squares or oval shapes work well. The two areas should be equivalent to the area of the lenses in your missing 3D glasses. Keep the area near the edge of the plastic so you can hold it up to your face without mashing your nose.
    3
    Using a red marker, fill in the left area.
    4
    Using a blue marker, fill in the right area.
    5
    Hold the colored plastic in front of your eyes and look at a 3D graphic, animation or video. Try the image at the top of this article.
    Handheld 3D Spectacles from a CD case.

Tips

    These 3D glasses will only work with movies that use the red/blue shift method for 3D. Modern 3D movies in the theaters use polarization and the new home 3D TVs and movies use synchronization with glasses that have lenses with high speed shutters. These red/blue glasses will not work for those other technologies.
    You can try using rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab as a paint brush to smooth out any streaks or lines caused by the markers tips.

    Some products come packaged with a transparent plastic window. You can use this as a more flexible substitute for the CD cover.