3-D Television Hype - WTF?

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Everyone is hyping all the technology and shit associated with the 3-D television programming available over the next couple of days. Why in the fuck after 50 fucking years are we still watching it with fucking paper glasses? I mean they can't install a 3-D processing chip with an option in our expensive big screens? Or why can't they create a 3-D signal signature and the cable/satellite companies flash our boxes to process it via digital signal?
 


It is because all the real "magic" of 3-D images are optical illusions created by the human brain. The only way to simulate it completely would be with holograms, so we would need some sort of a projection system designed to make that happen.

Or a 3D chip in our brains.
 
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jryan21 said:
It is because all the real "magic" of 3-D images are optical illusions created by the human brain. The only way to simulate it completely would be with holograms, so we would need some sort of a projection system designed to make that happen.

Or a 3D chip in our brains.
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Pretty much, before they perfected polarized light and filters, it was red and blues as a way to separate the double image and cause our brain to perceive the 3D state from the separation our eyes seen.

Quite a few years back there used to be 3D glasses for computer games, and it would work universally with any OpenGL game by acting as a filter over the graphics. It worked very effectively (but required a CRT monitor due to the entire screen refresh). What would happen is the glasses triggered by a screen signal, using LCD (like in the calculators not as in monitors), would black out one eye for a split second, and show one side of the double image, then black out the other eye and show the other. And with a high refresh rate (and since the 3d was rendered on the fly) , you would be playing Quake 3 in what appeared to be real 3D without the blue/red shit. It was actually quite cool on my 27" Trinitron monitor at the time, but I wouldn't recommend it for hours of play.
 
Jizzlobber said:
Everyone is hyping all the technology and shit associated with the 3-D television programming available over the next couple of days. Why in the fuck after 50 fucking years are we still watching it with fucking paper glasses?
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Saw My Bloody Valentine in 3D and we were provided really fashionable black plastic glasses. fashion > Technology
 
If you don't mind looking like Jordie LaForge, then iGlass or iWear AV310 Widescreen may be for you.

They give a real stereoscopic image during 3D gaming and work nicely for movies that have 3D options.
I tried the AV310s at a gaming expo with L4D... fucking intense! This is what all the VR games wanted to be 15 years ago... pity they ruined it so much with shitty graphics and games that over a dozen years later, people still scoff at VR gaming.
Honestly haven't tried the iTheater, but reviews are good, it looks to be basically the same device, and it's got a cute Japanese chick in the promo material, so I'm sold.
I'll actually get one of these, the moment I can find a local distributor. I just want the piece of mind for warranty purposes really.
 
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