3D movies are finally worth watching
3D movies are finally worth watching
3D 电影终于值得一看了
It took decades, but the technology is finally ready. 历经数十年，这项技术终于准备就绪了。
Why am I suddenly buying up every 3D Blu-ray I can find after 3D became one of the biggest tech flops of all time? 在 3D 技术成为史上最大的科技败笔之一后，为什么我突然开始疯狂搜罗我能找到的所有 3D 蓝光光碟？
The technology’s finally ready for 3D movies to shine, more than 15 years since James Cameron’s Avatar wowed me on the big screen and went on to become the highest-grossing film worldwide. Video glasses are giving me the experience I’ve always desired. 距离詹姆斯·卡梅隆的《阿凡达》在银幕上震撼我并成为全球票房冠军已经过去了 15 年多，如今 3D 电影终于迎来了大放异彩的时刻。视频眼镜正带给我一直渴望的体验。
I’ve always loved 3D movies, but viewing them was awkward. Walking into a movie theater with a pair of polarized glasses, I would only get half the resolution and roughly half the brightness, since those glasses had to split one reflected image between my two eyes. Almost every 3D technology cuts something you care about in half, whether it’s resolution (see also: Nintendo 3DS) or the refresh rate and flicker you get with active shutter glasses. 我一直很喜欢 3D 电影，但观看体验却很尴尬。戴着偏光眼镜走进电影院，我只能获得一半的分辨率和大约一半的亮度，因为眼镜必须将一个反射图像分配给我的双眼。几乎每种 3D 技术都会让你在意的某些指标减半，无论是分辨率（参考：任天堂 3DS），还是主动快门式眼镜带来的刷新率和闪烁问题。
But what if you had a full screen for each eye? That’s what video glasses can provide. 但如果每只眼睛都能拥有一个完整的屏幕呢？这正是视频眼镜所能提供的。
Last year, I began testing a pair of Xreal One Pro glasses, which primarily give you a gigantic flat screen, like a private theater, for whatever you plug in. But that screen doesn’t technically need to stay flat. If you press and hold the right button, Xreal can give you independent left and right views for side-by-side (SBS 3D) content. With proper content, you get a full 1080p view for each eye. 去年，我开始测试 Xreal One Pro 眼镜，它主要为你连接的任何设备提供一个巨大的平面屏幕，就像私人影院一样。但从技术上讲，这个屏幕并不一定要保持平整。如果你按住右侧按钮，Xreal 可以为左右并排（SBS 3D）内容提供独立的左右视图。在内容合适的情况下，你的每只眼睛都能获得完整的 1080p 画面。
There are SBS 3D toggles in popular video player apps for VR headsets like the Meta Quest and Steam Frame, too — and the Apple Vision Pro and upcoming Meta VR Glasses let you natively stream 3D films. 在 Meta Quest 和 Steam Frame 等 VR 头显的流行视频播放器应用中，也有 SBS 3D 切换开关——而 Apple Vision Pro 和即将推出的 Meta VR 眼镜则允许你原生流媒体播放 3D 电影。
They’re breathtaking. 它们令人叹为观止。
The water in Moana, a glass-covered clock in Zootopia 2, the helmets in Gravity, suiting up in giant robots in Pacific Rim, lightcycles in Tron: Legacy, comic book panels coming to life in Into the Spider-Verse — there’s just so much more depth to see. 《海洋奇缘》中的海水、《疯狂动物城 2》中玻璃罩下的时钟、《地心引力》中的头盔、《环太平洋》中穿上巨型机甲的过程、《创：战纪》中的光轮摩托、《蜘蛛侠：平行宇宙》中栩栩如生的漫画分镜——你能看到的深度远不止于此。
When the ocean parts to let Moana through, it no longer feels like looking at a flat wall of water. It’s a living chunk of ocean with life swimming inside. The Lego Movie went from “wow those are some realistic-looking CG Lego bricks on a flat screen” to “I just got teleported into an entire Lego diorama.” In Avatar, the holographic displays in the ops room are mind-blowing. Even the flat rectangular monitors have 3D layers within. 当海水为莫阿娜分开时，感觉不再像是看着一堵平面的水墙，而是一片充满生命的海洋，里面有生物在游动。《乐高大电影》的观感从“哇，屏幕上这些 CG 乐高积木看起来真逼真”变成了“我仿佛被传送进了一个完整的乐高立体模型中”。在《阿凡达》中，作战室里的全息显示屏令人震撼。即使是平面的矩形显示器，内部也拥有 3D 层级。
Cockpits and helmets and Tron: Legacy lightcycles and Mad Max: Fury Road’s convoy of battling vehicles — anything with transparent glass is a treat. There’s distinct detail on the faces inside the glass, the structures outside, beads of water or scratches on the glass itself, even reflections of the outside world, depending on the film. 驾驶舱、头盔、《创：战纪》的光轮摩托以及《疯狂的麦克斯：狂暴之路》中交战的车队——任何带有透明玻璃的东西都是一种享受。玻璃内的人脸细节清晰可见，外部结构、玻璃上的水珠或划痕，甚至根据电影的不同，还能看到外部世界的倒影。
Regardless of the hardware, it almost feels like I can reach out and touch a character’s face in 3D, feel their emotions and wrinkles and scars more vividly, once they have depth. 无论硬件如何，一旦有了深度，我几乎感觉自己可以伸手触摸到角色的脸庞，更生动地感受到他们的情绪、皱纹和伤疤。
Or, in the case of Werner Herzog’s cult-classic 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, I could appreciate how the world’s oldest surviving art isn’t flat — the 32,000-year-old cave paintings took form thanks to their three-dimensional canvas. “A bulging rock is now a bulging neck of a bison that attacks you,” Herzog explained to us earlier this year. 又或者，在沃纳·赫尔佐格的邪典 3D 纪录片《被遗忘的梦的洞穴》中，我能够领略到世界上现存最古老的艺术并非平面的——那些 3.2 万年前的洞穴壁画之所以成型，正是得益于它们三维的画布。“一块凸起的岩石，现在变成了野牛凸起的脖子，仿佛要向你发起攻击，”赫尔佐格今年早些时候向我们解释道。
When I fired up Gravity for what I thought would be a brief test, late at night in bed, I wound up watching the entire film. It all feels a bit like when I bought my first decent set of headphones — I never knew what I was missing, but now I want to revisit all my favorites to experience them more deeply. 当我在深夜躺在床上打开《地心引力》进行我以为的简短测试时，最终我把整部电影都看完了。这一切感觉就像我第一次买到一副像样的耳机——我从未意识到自己错过了什么，但现在我想重温所有我最喜欢的电影，以更深入地体验它们。
Not all 3D content is equal. Few live-action movies were truly filmed with twin cameras in recent years. In fake or poorly converted 3D movies, you’ll often see a “billboard” effect where it looks like there are flat layers of people or objects in the background instead of true depth. 并非所有的 3D 内容都是平等的。近年来，很少有真人电影是真正用双镜头拍摄的。在伪 3D 或转换效果不佳的 3D 电影中，你经常会看到一种“广告牌”效应，看起来背景中只是平面的层叠人物或物体，而非真正的深度。
But the biggest catch is that 3D movies aren’t easy to just buy and play. Even though 3D films are still coming to theaters, you can’t necessarily stream them or buy a high-quality copy. 4K Blu-ray doesn’t support 3D at all. 3D Blu-rays were the last discs to offer 3D, and as FlatPanelsHD pointed out last year, that means most physical 3D movies are stuck in the past at 1080p, 24fps, without HDR. 但最大的问题在于，3D 电影并不容易购买和播放。尽管 3D 电影仍在影院上映，但你未必能通过流媒体观看或买到高质量的拷贝。4K 蓝光根本不支持 3D。3D 蓝光光碟是最后提供 3D 格式的载体，正如 FlatPanelsHD 去年指出的那样，这意味着大多数实体 3D 电影仍停留在 1080p、24fps 且没有 HDR 的过去。