8th September 2005, 7:14 AM
:D
all you have to do is ask any game player, look at any Nintendo message board, read any game mag or any Nintendo site to see that thousands, probably millions of people want 3-D. The 3-D used in Terminator 2 3-D or Shrek 4-D is what people want.
The idea of VR stereoscopic goggles wont happen until the tech is much, much cheaper. Nintendo even said with the Virtual Boy that they considered releasing a color version but it would just be too expensive. People wanted the Virtual Boy, but they didnt want red and black graphics. Nor do they want the blue and red 3-D. But if you give them a pair of LCD shutter glasses which are super cheap and a game specifically programmed to use them and you'll have a sharp, bright 3-D picture in full color.
The LCD shutters allow for an image to appear within inches of your face or have the depth of about a mile. A game like Metroid Prime would give you the HUD an inch away from your face with the world appearing like a window you look in to until an enemy fires at you or a Metroid attaches itself to you. Then it's litteraly in your living room. and it would look GOOD, as good as the attractions at Universal Studios.
But more importantly, it would be cheap and easy to design. All you need is a LCD switcher that would go on top or bottom of your TV and the glasses that are completely wireless and I believe they run on watch batteries for weeks before needing to be replaced.
It would add so much to games and even generate new types of gameplay ideas and it's a tech that can be done right now. I dont see how it would disappoint anyone.
8 days!!!!!!
all you have to do is ask any game player, look at any Nintendo message board, read any game mag or any Nintendo site to see that thousands, probably millions of people want 3-D. The 3-D used in Terminator 2 3-D or Shrek 4-D is what people want.
The idea of VR stereoscopic goggles wont happen until the tech is much, much cheaper. Nintendo even said with the Virtual Boy that they considered releasing a color version but it would just be too expensive. People wanted the Virtual Boy, but they didnt want red and black graphics. Nor do they want the blue and red 3-D. But if you give them a pair of LCD shutter glasses which are super cheap and a game specifically programmed to use them and you'll have a sharp, bright 3-D picture in full color.
The LCD shutters allow for an image to appear within inches of your face or have the depth of about a mile. A game like Metroid Prime would give you the HUD an inch away from your face with the world appearing like a window you look in to until an enemy fires at you or a Metroid attaches itself to you. Then it's litteraly in your living room. and it would look GOOD, as good as the attractions at Universal Studios.
But more importantly, it would be cheap and easy to design. All you need is a LCD switcher that would go on top or bottom of your TV and the glasses that are completely wireless and I believe they run on watch batteries for weeks before needing to be replaced.
It would add so much to games and even generate new types of gameplay ideas and it's a tech that can be done right now. I dont see how it would disappoint anyone.
8 days!!!!!!