If you're not sure how 3D works, theres a good sized wiki page that explains most methods. However I have a short-cut that requires 4 things. 2 Polarized 3D glasses, 1 of any kinda Monitor/Screen/TV, and lastly a duplicated image.
*The polarization method has the chance of bleeding, where in a dark scene, a light colored image may get to the wrong eye. So you might want to lower the brightness of your screen.
Another method to go about it is with an LCD screen, Cellophane (gift-wrap cellophane, not food wrap cellophane (I made that mistake once)). And a pair of 3D polarized glasses. *I found this method extremely difficult to work out, because the cellophane bends. They explain it here http://individual.utoronto.ca/iizuka/research/cellophane.htm#1. In my method I just replaced the cellphane with another polarizing sheet...the other pair of 3D glasses *Note this eliminates the need for an LCD screen. *Note: Since you must rotate the glasses around so that one completely blacks out whats behind it, you might need to break one pair of glasses down the middle. This way you can freely position them in front of your screen. Or you could just remove the glasses from the frame altogether. The goal is to block out the line of sight between the left image and the left eye, and the right image with the right eye. Creating the illusion of one image. Because the left eye can see freely to the right image and vice versa, creating depth. Another note, if you don't like the idea of positioning the one set of broken glasses just right in front of you, you could get enough of them to cover each side of the screen. The cool part, is that the individual glasses have no effect on the screen, if you're not wearing 3D glasses, its just a normal screen, so no need to remove the covering.
Since you're reading this you already have that monitor, and to get those glasses, well they're extremely cheap (I've heard less than 1 dollar), and easy to find at 3D movies. (look for circularly polarized glasses, RealD 3D glasses are what I'm working with, but I don't have enough to cover my screen, I'll work on that later).
As for that duplicated image, well unless you're extremely good at running two applications in sync with each other, its just plain difficult. I tried practicing with spamming that pause/play button on youtube until they were in sync. But thats just plain annoying, and it wouldn't work for video-games and other things where focus dictates control. This is where I thought of multimedia fusion.
I remember however that there was an application (for the color-blind) that zoomed in and picked pixels to display the actual color components. I was thinking of using the same principle but to create that second image. Without all those calculations to determine color, and the zooming feature. (These applications would have to be the same size and next to each other), they should also match in refresh rates if thats possible. I have yet to find my multimedia fusion install disc, so unfortunately I'll have to leave this to you. Have fun.
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