The Hollywood bringing new 3D movies to us has changed our outlook towards media. People are finding this 3D experience unbelievable. When we perceive our surrounding world in 3D, then why is watching TV limited to 2D.
The question now arises why a person observes in 3D? This is because he has two forward facing eyes to see the world surrounding him. This is called as binocular vision. The eyes of a person separate from each other by approximately 3 inches. Due to this one eye observes a little different image as compared to the other one. The parallax obtained is crucial for perceiving depth.

The active shutter display technology is getting more and more popular. In this technique, the left as well as right images are alternatively displayed in a sequential way on some regular LCD TV. But, as effective frame rate gets halved, the displays require double refresh rate of the standard LCD TVs and monitors that is 60 Hz.
Due to this all the 3D ready TVs possess minimum 120 Hz frame rate. The shutter glasses prove useful for discriminating between these images and each eye just observes the corresponding image on a monitor.
Both eyepieces of special active shutter glass behave like a shutter. The left as well as right eye pieces get alternatively shuttered in a synchronized way and each eye just observes the corresponding image displayed on a 3D TV.
You should note that the maintenance of active shutter glasses is done in sync with a television set by making use of bluetooth, radio or infrared technology. These glasses generally contain the liquid crystals which could be turned opaque and thus behave like a shutter. Using this technology, left eye just observes the intended image of left view and right eye observes the intended image of right view.
