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Lego Harry Potter dev thinks 3D gaming is "over-hyped" |
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Sony is throwing its full weight behind 3D gaming, but not everyone has warmed to the idea. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata for one is doubtful that it'll take off, and so is Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 producer Loz Doyle.
Doyle recently spoke to VideoGamer and expressed his personal belief that 3D gaming is "over-hyped":
I don't like the idea of sitting in my living room with a pair of glasses on, watching TV or playing a game. I feel it would detach you from other people in the room. Our games are more about being together and playing together. Having glasses on would be a little bit odd. I wouldn't rule it out, but personally, I'm not into it.
A PS3 firmware update that adds 3D support to the Sony console is expected to be released this year.
Via [VideoGamer]
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Agreed. Not everyone has an HDTV. I heard only 50 something percent of house hold have them. People just recently bought LCDs because of the price drop due to the release of LEDs and I doubt they're going to buy a new one for a while.
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ps. my TV came out at the beginning of February 2009 for $1199.
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And yes, I agree with the above posters but I don't feel it's that big of a problem. Obviously consumers who want to experience 3D would have to purchase new TVs, but like any technology it's not something that's going to be in every household day one. In time the technology will grow and as consumers become ready for that new TV the technology will be mainstream and available to them.
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True. I agree with you.
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Like everyone above I agree that its the 3Dtvs that are the problem and not the glasses. That said I think sony is really playing the longterm this gen and I dont think they're counting on everyone suddenly buying brand new 3D tv's.
I think they're just trying to get ahead of the game for next gen and establish themselves as a quality 3D company.
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i can imagine--and i hope they do-- sony using the eye, motion controller, and 3d glasses all in one game; think about having to physically dodge an attack? ahhh, i can see the disclaimers now...
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I have Coraline 3D in BlueRay,and is one of the best 3D movies with the regular glasses.Is a god option,and easy to make.
Why have to be ''DIGITAL 3D'' ???
I know that 3D stereoscopic (red/blue) arent so great,but if you saw Coraline in 3D (cyan/magenta)in your house,you know what I mean.Will be great in games as an option...
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And I think once 3D gaming takes off, corporations will immediately try to come up with ideas on how to integrate it into their platforms in however way possible.
It'll definitely be a big hit.
Satoru Iwata and Loz Doyle probably haven't seen Avatar in 3D, I was blown away, and that says a lot for me.
Think of how developers will be able to bring immersive games to the next level.
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Most people think this 3D business is complicated from a technical viewpoint.
But it's not, the concept is extremely simple.
It's about sending one image to your left eye, and another image to your right eye.
These images are both portraying the same thing, but the one being sent to your right eye is slightly offset and angled.
It's like two cameras being pointed at the same thing, but they're both slightly apart from each other like two eyes.
This is the same concept, even in games.
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The first frame displays the image as viewed from the left eye, and the second frame displays the very same image, but slightly offset like I explained above, to properly display it as it would have been seen from the right eye.
And it goes on like this, each frame lasting 120th of a second, in sets of left and right.
You could even say it runs at 60x2 frames per second, because in terms of time nothing changes between the left and right frames, everything that is moving in the image is occupying the same space in both images - they're just simply viewed from different angles.
If you look at this without any glasses, you would see a double image.
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It does this at the same refresh rate as the TV. (120 Hz)
Which is why you don't notice the glasses blocking the vision of each eye for each frame.
And thus you get an optical illusion, a 3D image.
Now, people argue that you need to buy a new TV that supports the refresh rate of 120 FPS in order for this to work.
However, this can be solved by allowing regular HDTVs (60 FPS standard) to display in 3D using 30x2 FPS.
Regular HDTVs should support 3D, there's no excuse.
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