YouTube introduces 3D to videos full stereoscopic converters with many options – yt3d:enable=true

YouTube introduced a stereoscopic player for watching videos in 3D. If you play a 3D video a drop-down menu will show options for red/cyan and amber/blue 3D glasses and some options that don’t require glasses.

Here’s a brief overview video.

To enable the 3D player, you need to add the following tag to one of your videos: yt3d:enable=true.

Peter Bradshaw, a Google employee, has more information about this experimental feature: I’m the developer working on the stereoscopic player as a 20% project. It’s currently very early, hence the silly bugs like swapping the eyes for the anaglyph modes. A fix for this is in the works.

The current tags are provisional and may change or expand. They are:

yt3d:enable=true Enables the view mode.
yt3d:aspect=3:4 Sets the aspect of the encoded video.
yt3d:swap=true Swaps the left and right sources.

You may need to add this to videos when the player with fixed anaglyph modes ships.