Anybody remember the handful of 3D movies from the past? Some of those movies were fun, even though the 3D effects were very cheap. You had to wear red and blue 3D glasses to make the action on the screen appear three dimensional. In it's own time, it was pretty cool. But today, we have more modern ways of making movies and games seem truly 3D. Thanks to 3D movies such as Avatar from James Cameron, this new hype is gaining momentum. Nowadays, consumers want to see 3D in the comfort of their own homes. The market has reacted to this demand by providing the supply.
This day and age, we have high definition televisions. Some of the newer models that are now coming out, have 3D features. Ofcourse, you'll still have to wear the 3D glasses if you want to experience three dimensions. Active 3D shutter glasses are used from only a few of these televisions. Others are based on passive 3D glasses. Time will tell which one of these technologies becomes the dominant one. We have to make due with the 3D systems we have until then. But 3D doesn't need to be restricted to just movies, because it can also be used in games. For a long time now, games have been 3D already. The one downside of 3D games is that they appear on a 2D monitor screen.
Because of advances in technology, graphics cars are getting a lot of computational prowess. Keeping a decent framerate while computing two different images, is starting to become feasible. The 3D graphics card's computed images, can be displayed by a 3D monitor. Just like with the movies, you'd still have to wear 3D glasses to make the effect come to life. I am hoping that, one day, there will be a 3D gaming glasses that projects the images straight to your retina. This would truly put a person right inside of all the virtual action. Game world immersion will be unlike anything the world has ever seen.
We will have to enjoy ourselves with what we have now, until such technology arrives. a 3D gaming kit was released by NVidia some time ago. This kit was released with active shutter glasses. These alternatingly shutting glasses, will allow only one of your eyes to see an image at a time. A 3D effect would arise, if a video game were to display images for the left and right eye alternatingly. There is one downside and that is that your graphics card must compute twice as many images. This can cause choppy frame rates. On top of that, you'd need to buy a 3D monitor yourself. This can become pretty expensive. In time, however, these technologies will become much cheaper!
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