The Hobbit 3D Glasses You’d Pay Extra Not To Wear

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Peter Jackson’s decision to shoot The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 48 fps and in 3D raised a lot of eyebrows among Lord Of the Rings fans. But not the Tolkien marketing machine who saw an opportunity to cook up these tacky Hobbit-themed 3D glasses for the film’s release.

But while most moviegoers will probably opt for the 2D experience, there will most certainly be some extremely loyal fanboys who demand to see the film in every dimension possible. And it’s that group that will certainly snatch up these limited edition RealD-approved glasses. They’re made of plastic, of course, but designed to look like they’re actually crafted from hammer forged steel—an effect that’s not going to fool anyone in the cinema.

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My Take

A number of 3D film viewers at home complain about the costly and quite heavy active 3D glasses that LG had to develop a 3D technology (passive 3D) that lets us wear lighter and economical 3D glasses that can not only be used with LG Cinema 3D TVs but also other televisions equipped with passive 3D technology.

Then this? It obviously looks heavier than the active shutter 3D glasses even if it is Real 3D; which uses circularly polarized light to produce 3D imaging. The only advantage of this pair of Hobbit 3D glasses is that the lenses are big enough for us not to see the frame of the glasses during 3D viewing.