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Look3D unveils stylish collection of 3D-ready glasses

By | May 12, 2010, 4:57am PDT

Summary: Look3D has designed a quartet of eyewear collections that will have people watching 3D movies in style.

Maybe wearing 3D glasses won’t look so geeky looking after all. Look3D has developed a quartet of eyewear collections that will have you watching that 3D version of Avatar in style.

Looking more hipster than something you’d find inside a 1980s cereal box, the Look3D digital glasses come in a variety of styles. So you have your pick from classic aviators, a modern-take on the movie house version of 3D glasses or some other funky designs. Some of them are so lightly tinted that it’s hard to tell they’re 3D-ready at all.

[Photo Gallery: 3D glasses go wild]

Glasses are covered by a six to twelve-month warranty, depending on the pair you pick up. Each set of frames can also be customized with a prescription (for an extra fee), and each pair is RealD-certified for the 3D viewing experience, either on a 3D HDTV or movie screen.

As 3D movies continue to make their way into the theaters and then into our homes on DVD/Blu-ray, it might make sense to invest in your own pair of 3D glasses - especially if you’re a germaphobe. Plus, why not spend more on a pair that is attractive and you don’t feel silly wearing?

However, this is all said before pricing on these fancy spectacles has been announced, so we’ll have to wait and see with these.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

Talkback Most Recent of 6 Talkback(s)

  • Vanity
    Who cares what you look like for a 2 hour movie, in a dark room, where no one is looking at you? I'm there to watch a movie, not look at faces.
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    RRobert03
    12th May 2010
  • RE: Look3D unveils stylish collection of 3D-ready glasses
    @RRobert03... Thank you for being the voice of reason. You are a shining example that there is still hope for the human race after all.
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    jack@...
    12th May 2010
  • HEAR HEAR
    Yes, the continued bleating over the look of the glasses is pathetic. Why isn't anyone complaining about the upholstery color in the theater then? Or that ugly plastic cupholder?

    The fact that this issue even makes anyone's list simply shows why technical quality is going down and theater-going has become an unbearable pageant of reprehensible behavior and spoiled infants.

    And beyond that, this article is ignorant as well. It fails to address the fact that there are three 3-D systems in use in theaters, and it looks like (unfortunately) most TVs are going the active (shutter) glasses route. So the usefulness of these glasses is limited.
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    dgurney
    17th May 2010
  • Well I can see if you normally where glasses...
    it would be nice to have a custom pair. But the question that comes into play is a lot of the TV's will be shutter based and so far all the manufactures are using different protocols for the communications between TV and glasses.
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    mrlinux
    12th May 2010
  • These aren't that stylish...
    they'd look worse on me that the movie theater ones... of course this is coming from someone who uses the disposable movie theater glasses for driving...
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    shadfurman
    12th May 2010
  • RE: Look3D unveils stylish collection of 3D-ready glasses
    $125 - $150????? Not too but three expensive.
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    zaxxan
    15th May 2010

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