3D Gaming Glasses?

fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
edited December 2003 in Hardware

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  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited December 2003
    I saw a guy use 3d-glasses at a local counterstrike lan. They're pretty good if your depth perception's not up to par.
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited December 2003
    Looks interesting though. I might get it.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2003
    Never seen them before.
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited December 2003
    I remember some of the ti4600's came with them.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Even GeForce2s came with 3D glasses; Elsa Erazor amongst them.
  • edited December 2003
    You need a monitor that'll do a high refresh rate, a very fast video card and to run your games at 800x600 to get constant refresh rates or the effect goes buhbye.
    If you run at a refresh rate of 100hz (and Vsync has to be enabled BTW) you'll be getting 50fps because each shutter is on for half the cycle (every other frame in otherwords) thereby cutting the refresh rate in half. 50hz refresh rates are headache inducing to say the least.
    Your video card will need to be able to supply the needed fps or the slowdown will cause the 3D effect to go haywire so a low resolution in many of the modern games is a must.
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited December 2003
    Well, no 3d glases for me then. Sounds like crap.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I ran some 3D Glasses with my GeForce 3 (they came with it) and you can use it on a non-super monitor if you enable interlacing as that will give you double your refresh rate. They take quite a while to get used to, but half way through a mission on Hidden & Dangerous, it suddenly kicked in and looked amazing, It looked like I could reach into the screen and touch the wooden supports of the tower I was in.

    Though, your miliage may vary as it takes ages to force your eyes into working the right way to get the effect.
  • edited December 2003
    Every time I've tried interlacing it's looked horrible, the monitor was all scrambled looking.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Not sure why it looked scrambled, but all interlacing does it draw every other line, though as you are wearing 3D Glasses, it draws them alternately, so you don't miss out on half of the screen.

    i.e. Here is an image which is half of this frame, and half of the last frame....
    interlace.gif

    Though if you are running in 3D Mode with glasses on, it would look fine (where as this is just a screwed up image).
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I had a pair with my Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 Ultra. My monitor wasn't up to scratch and I ended up never using them. However, when I tried them on my mates monitor once they were absolutely amazing.

    The effect as far as I know is only for D3D games, and you can alter the degree of 3d-ness for games individually. Although a cool novelty, it hurts your eyes after a while, so that's all they are IMO, a cool novelty.

    ~Cyrix
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