We’ll be true with you, a Engadget staff is rather changeable about 3D: a little of us believe it to be a gimmick, while others see it as a legitimate advance in film record which takes our film enjoyment up to its subsequent logical station. What you won’t find us conflicting on, however, is that all looks better when it’s taken to the 4K resolution. Sony has been bustling rolling out the brand-new 4K projectors opposite a US as well as Europe, as well as invited us yesterday to see Toy Story 3 in some ultra-advanced 4K 3D. Because of it carrying 4 times a resolution of a more required 2K things — that Avatar, the big 3D (and 4D) flagship, was delivered in — Sony’s projector is able to deliver both the left- as well as right-eye support on the shade at the same time, rather than having to alternate them in hummingbird fashion. That should ideally yield a some-more silken altogether experience for the spectator and ultimately pay off for the association in some-more people ponying up more money for a additional goodness. So, we moseyed along to an Apollo Cinema in central London — a chain has already installed Sony’s favourite 4K projectors in 11 of its venues — and all you’ll need to do is click past a break to see what we suspicion.
We were fortunate enough to be able to sneak dual editors into this movie showing and hence can share with you a span of (contrasting) perspectives on a experience. Sat in amongst the sweet spots nearby the middle of a theater, Richard Lai found the whole thing the explosion, describing a picture as terrifically sharp and remarking upon the fact he gifted no eye tired even after the full 103 notation runtime of the film (which was padded out with 3D footage from the World Cup and some other flint.

This hapless scribe, upon the alternative hand, managed to be late enough to garner a chair on a really corner of the assembly, getting to season 3D from the far-reaching angle. And you know what? It kinda sucked. Although objects in a forehead defended a aforementioned sharpness, the left- and right-eye images were discernibly defined upon background or more distant objects, and a effectively incomplete stereoscopic outcome served to lessen rather than than enhance your fullness into a film. Just to get all a bile out of our complement, we should additionally discuss which there’s the noticeable dropoff in brightness when you cocktail the RealD 3D glasses on relative to what a shade emits — it seems to be accounted for, as we positively can’t complain about the movie lacking vibrancy or color correctness, but might be something to bear in mind.

On the whole, yet, you have to contend you came out of the motion picture impressed. Sony’s implementation of 3D using these 4K-capable projectors is manifestly better than what we’ve experienced so far — eye strain seems to have been entirely nullified as well as sharpness is tangibly higher to what competing technologies are now means to deliver. So long as you bear in thoughts which 3D comes with significantly narrower (ideal) observation angles than a conventional things, we reckon this is a most appropriate choice for enjoying it.

We’re not going to broach the prohibited question of whether or not 3D is value it — that is many probably the visualisation to be made in chairman — though you will say which it didn’t seem to raise Toy Story 3 upon a unchanging basement. There were a little highlight moments where 3D unequivocally took the action up the nick, though the film’s soak mostly felt upon standard with what the 2D version would have delivered. Will “done for 3D” cinema push a now sporadic utility of a technology into something some-more strong? Maybe. All we know is which there’d be a little 4K voodoo thrown in there a single way or another. We’ve now gotten our initial taste of a things, and even yet it ain’t undiluted, it’s a best damn 3D we’ve assayed so distant.