3D Television Technology For Video Games - A New Era Of Amusement
Anybody remember the handful of 3D movies from the past? Some of those movies were fun, even though the 3D effects were very cheap. To make the on screen action appear 3D, you needed to wear red and blue 3D glasses. In it's own time, it was pretty cool. This day and age, there are better ways of making games and movies look like real 3D. Thanks to 3D movies such as Avatar from James Cameron, this new hype is gaining momentum. The consumer has a high demand for 3D in his own home. The public's demand has been answered by the market in the form of a great supply.
Today, our televisions have become high definition. A lot of modern television models now come with 3D functionality. Ofcourse, you'll still have to wear the 3D glasses if you want to experience three dimensions. Active 3D shutter glasses are used from only a few of these televisions. Others are based on passive 3D glasses. Whichever technology will prevail, only time can tell. We will have to be satisfied with the 3D systems we have today, until one wins the battle. But 3D doesn't need to be restricted to just movies, because it can also be used in games. For a long time now, games have been 3D already. The one downside of 3D games is that they appear on a 2D monitor screen.
Because of technological progress, graphics cards are starting to become really powerful. Keeping a decent framerate while computing two different images, is starting to become feasible. The 3D graphics card's computed images, can be displayed by a 3D monitor. To truly see the three dimensional effect, you will also have to wear 3D glasses just as you would watching a movie. I am hoping that, one day, there will be a 3D gaming glasses that projects the images straight to your retina. You'd be right in the middle of your virtual world with such a pair of glasses. Game world immersion will be unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Until that happens, we will have to make due with traditional technology. a 3D gaming kit was released by NVidia some time ago. The glasses that come with this kit are active shutter glasses. These alternatingly shutting glasses, will allow only one of your eyes to see an image at a time. If a game were to display images for the right and left eye alternatingly, the 3D effect becomes evident. There is one downside and that is that your graphics card must compute twice as many images. This can cause choppy frame rates. Also, you will still have to purchase a compatible monitor yourself. So it can be quite expensive. In time, however, these technologies will become much cheaper!
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