Just was reading the latest press release from Samsung regarding their latest generation of DLP's. Not sure if this is a marketing blurb or not, but "3d ready jumps out at me".
http://www.samsung.com/common/microsite/exhibition/ices2007/presskit/ices2007_ce07.html
It's well known DLP works perfectly for 3d presentations. You can go to movie theaters and watch certain releases in 3d, as long as the theater has a DLP projector, provides 3d glasses, and the proper movie like the recent re-release of "A nightmare before Xmas". The next logical conclusion to make is DLP would work perfectly for showing games in 3d.
Many year back SEGA released 3d glasses for the Sega Master System that worked pretty well. Of course with todays technology it would be more sophisticated.
Some intresting points and question this brings up are:
What kind of performance hit would you get by presenting a game in 3d?
3d glasses along with a Sony Eye Toy with infra-red sensors to dectect depth combined with a Wiimote style control device would be a pretty darn awesome gaming experience. Of course Microsoft could release all of this type of technology if they wanted to.
No gamer is getting screwed over if they don't have the technology for 3d, they can still play the same game in normal 2d mode.
John Carmack mentioned several years back how he was expermenting with cameras and trying to take advantage of them. One thing he mentioned was eye tracking and rendering the area the player was looking at in finer detail. Now kick this up to the next level with his new Mega-Texture engine technology and in a 3d presentation. That might result in very impressive eye candy.
Of course this could just be a marketing term from Samsung and not a hint of whats to come. If I recall corectly Microsoft was marketing the 360 as "HD ready" a few years back. Now we have a press release from Samsung mentioning "3d ready". So who knows?
http://www.samsung.com/common/microsite/exhibition/ices2007/presskit/ices2007_ce07.html
It's well known DLP works perfectly for 3d presentations. You can go to movie theaters and watch certain releases in 3d, as long as the theater has a DLP projector, provides 3d glasses, and the proper movie like the recent re-release of "A nightmare before Xmas". The next logical conclusion to make is DLP would work perfectly for showing games in 3d.
Many year back SEGA released 3d glasses for the Sega Master System that worked pretty well. Of course with todays technology it would be more sophisticated.
Some intresting points and question this brings up are:
What kind of performance hit would you get by presenting a game in 3d?
3d glasses along with a Sony Eye Toy with infra-red sensors to dectect depth combined with a Wiimote style control device would be a pretty darn awesome gaming experience. Of course Microsoft could release all of this type of technology if they wanted to.
No gamer is getting screwed over if they don't have the technology for 3d, they can still play the same game in normal 2d mode.
John Carmack mentioned several years back how he was expermenting with cameras and trying to take advantage of them. One thing he mentioned was eye tracking and rendering the area the player was looking at in finer detail. Now kick this up to the next level with his new Mega-Texture engine technology and in a 3d presentation. That might result in very impressive eye candy.
Of course this could just be a marketing term from Samsung and not a hint of whats to come. If I recall corectly Microsoft was marketing the 360 as "HD ready" a few years back. Now we have a press release from Samsung mentioning "3d ready". So who knows?
