YouTube has appealed for members to film and upload their own 3D movies.  The video-sharing site is now offering more options for making 3D videos on the site work from a viewer's perspective, by letting them select how they want to watch the content.

When 3D videos are uploaded to the site and tagged with 'yt3d:enable=true', the viewer will have several options as to how they can watch, which can be selected from a drop-down menu underneath the video.  For example, if you ate a lot of cereal in the Eighties, you may have some 3D glasses which you can use and you can now select the correct colours (red/cyan, green/magenta or amber/blue) to get the best experience.

Alternatively, you can get a mirror split, or have two pictures side by side on the screen.  This is a new feature and many of the kinks are still being worked out - for instance, 3D videos cannot be embedded," said Peter Bradshaw, a software engineer at YouTube.

"But as with most things on YouTube, we need your help. We are looking for you to show us the real potential of this feature by making a fascinating, funky 3D video of your own," he continued.  Bradshaw said that to film 3D footage, you'd need to use two cameras, side-by-side like a pair of eyes.

Coincidentally, Japanese camera maker Fujifilm announced a 3D camera earlier this week.  The Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 uses two sensors rather than one and two lenses, again mimicking a pair of eyes. The camera's processor then combines the two images to create a 3D image. The 3D W1 can also display the images in 3D on its LCD screen without the viewer having to wear special glasses.