Guys as you might have read I went to the theme park Efteling the other day, and overthere they have something called the Panda Dream. It's a 3D animation movie about the melting of the poles, the demolishing of the coral reef and the quickly shrinking rain forest. You have to wear special glasses of course, but they are not the usual crappy red and blue ones. I read that one is supposed to be green and the other purple but when I was in the other room I would have sworn they were uncoloured. Anyway the animals in the movie really come out of the screen and towards you brilliantly. This got me thinking and searching, and I found some video's on youtube using the normal red & cyaan (aka blue) effect (these images and vids are called anaglyphs). I found myself an old pair of those glasses and watched some vids. Most of them were kinda hard to see and not very impressive. BUT I found this dragon animation, and I was astounded by how well it came forward to me. If you have a pair of those glasses you have to check this out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pkGVbz75fg[/youtube] Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pkGVbz75fg I found the small-screen version to be a bit better since it tends to stretch out when going full-screen. I also noticed for myself that it can be important not to look at the edges of your screen too much, I think because this reminds the brain its a 2D thing and that overrides the 3D effect. Or maybe I'm just weird. If you find any other good vids or images, please post them. Continuing on the idea of anaglyphs, the vids like that up here are hard to see in colour since the red and blu tend to kill all the rest. However in that show from the Panda Dream, colours were very present. And I wonder, with project Natal comming up and all, would there be room for 3D gaming in the (near) future? Although I visited it before, I still jumped up from an eel (for those that dont know, lets say a water snake) that jumped out towards me (I didnt remember him being there ). So I think that this 3D thing can be very effective to let you as player really live your game. Combine it with full motion sensoring and you're pretty close to actually being there. (I know it would probably require like a beamer and a large screen for real effect but hey, its just a fantasy, think about it)
I wished I had 3d glasses but anyways.. 3D gaming already exists, an example: (WARNING! It's the ending of HL2 episode 2..so If you don't want to know how it end or something, don't watch it.) Spoiler [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmW7nFIHPXo[/youtube] you're able to play games in 3D with some program called iZ3D.
yeah Lethal_Rabbit made that vid... and thank god spykids 3D! still got the 3D glasses from that movie xD
the half-life thing doesnt work for me, no real 3D for me Or I'm just crooked and what I meant was games made specially for the 3D on a large screen together with motion capture. And without the bloody red-cyan colour fucking method.