Viper007Bond said:
ESPNSTI said:
Every once in a while I play some games (mostly FPS) in Stereo3D mode.
What's Stereo3D?
It's stereoscopic viewing (basically, you see things in 3D like in the movie theatres).
Basically there are two "main" types of 3D viewing:
Analglyph : You need a set of glasses with a red and a blue lens, and the graphics card will display two frames offset horizontally (one kind of blue, the other kind of red), you probably have seen things like that before.
Page-Flipping (this is what I have)
This requires a special set of glasses that is hooked up to your monitor cable.
The graphics card alternates frames for your left eye with frames for your right eye.
When the frame for the left eye is displayed, the "shutter glasses" will block your right eye, and then when the frame for the right eye is displayed, the "shutter glasses" (See
http://www.stereo3d.com/shutter.htm) will block the frame for the left eye.
It does this basically at the refresh rate of the monitor (this doesn't work for LCD obviously).
Neither method is without problems, you'll encounter things like bleed-over from the left eye into the right eye, and vice versa, but still very cool.
I hope that in another 5-10 years or so they'll have better solutions, and I hope that it becomes popular.