I have on my desk a lenticular 3D sticker from a Kinder egg. If you view it from a distance, the 3D effect becomes much flatter. Up close and the 3D effect is pretty good but you see the stripes. And viewed from some 40ish degrees either side, the 3D becomes inverted so the...hippo?...on the left appears in front of the hippo on the right. I can see it working for a handheld, but not a full sized set. Maybe a monitor. A glasses-free 3D monitor where I've got my Sammy wouldn't be bad actually, if 3D's any good.... but will it work ?
What's in the Avatar Blu-ray TV ad ?
This release does not have 3D support. The one in November may have it.
PS. plasma is 15 bit colour with dithering in 3D AFAIK (it's still 600 Hz subfields, which is not enough for 24 bit colour).
The CEA, you know the company that produces the Consumer Electronics Show, conducted a study on the interest of 3D gaming and announced the results at the LA Games Conference.
Here’s what they found out.
1 in 4 interested in home 3D video game experience.
1 in 2 people who saw a 3D movie in the last 12 months are interested in playing 3D games at home.
1 in 5 say playing video games in 3D would be their primary reason for buying a 3DTV.
"3-D continues to speak to the elimination of the middle creatively," says Justin Marks, the writer on Disney's former "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" project and Sony's action film "Shadow of the Colossus."
As long as it kills shaky cam I'll take any side effects in stride ... so precious to hear mention of Michael Bay when people talk about not making good use of the medium ... the guy wastes millions on CGI and then shakes and blurs it into garbage (Transformers).Some movie people are apprehensive about 3-D
1. IT'S THE WASTE OF A DIMENSION.
When you look at a 2-D movie, it's already in 3-D as far as your mind is concerned. When you see Lawrence of Arabia growing from a speck as he rides toward you across the desert, are you thinking, "Look how slowly he grows against the horizon"? Our minds use the principle of perspective to provide the third dimension. Adding one artificially can make the illusion less convincing.
2. IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE EXPERIENCE.
Recall the greatest moviegoing experiences of your lifetime. Did they "need" 3-D? A great film completely engages our imaginations. What would Fargogain in 3-D? Precious? Casablanca?
The second-highest all-time grosser is Cameron's Titanic, which of course was in 2-D. Still, Avatar used 3-D very effectively. I loved it. Cameron is a technical genius who planned his film for 3-D from the ground up and spent $250 million getting it right.
Okay, I disagree ... but if that's really his opinion I can see where he is coming from, matter of taste ... then on the second page ...
Wait ... what???
Coraline had much more thinking behind the 3d than avatar.
And 3d adds a lot in movies where 3d is fully part of the visual grammar (not very often yet)
And for games it adds even a lot more if done right.