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    Free 3D gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ayle, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Helly people, does anyone know if there is a software that would output games in a such a way that you would be able to play using the cross-eye method?
    If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch this video. And after you get the technique right, go watch this Burnout Paradise gameplay video using the previously mentioned method. It is awesome.
     
  2. MrButterBiscuits

    MrButterBiscuits ~Veritas Y Aequitas~

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    is this serious? when you cross your eyes you lose vision, not to mention the amount of strain on your eyes.... playing a game like this would be ridiculous lol
     
  3. KillerBunny

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    Im sorry I just dont get this. Places way too much strain on the eyes, and seems pointless. I would rather just pay for nvidia 3d than go around cross-eyed all day long
     
  4. Ayle

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    Citation needed.
     
  5. MrButterBiscuits

    MrButterBiscuits ~Veritas Y Aequitas~

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    not permanently lol, but its fairly obvious to anyone when you cross you eyes it is really hard to see. eyes crossed=Fuzzy vision. I don't need citations for that, its common knowledge.
     
  6. Ayle

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    I'm under the impression that some information was lost somewhere... You cross your eyes to combine 2 images from 2 different point of view and your brain combine into one single 3d image. And you focus on that. It is not fuzzy. It's putting your finger in front of your nose and crossing your eyes to make only one finger appear instead of two. Do you at least see what I'm taking about?
     
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    Merely trying to cross my eyes gives me a headache, I can't even imagine how would it be to play a game like that.
     
  8. daranik

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    Ill find the journal later but altering your view for long periods of time are found to be detrimental to vision, the focal point of your pupels change, and this will degrade how quickly and readily your eyes can re-adjust and focus on objects. To create the effect it isn't natural for your eyes, creating strain , strain on your eyes isn't very good and causes the above problems. That said I don't think there is a program, other 3d methods are having a hard enough time being adopted in main stream media now, not only that it would cut your total diagonal inches in half, making it useless to view any image without is being stretched or deformed.

    Also changing the focal point of two images does blur them, it will be blurry.

    Look into Head Mounted Displays for playing games, its a pair of led glasses that there are 2 screens that can be used for either stereoscopic view or monoscopic view. Sony at ces showed off a new 720p model that shows a 100 inch screen from 6 feet away.
     
  9. MrButterBiscuits

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    Thank you Daranik +1 rep
     
  10. redrazor11

    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

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    That is very cool.....but it cuts your viewing size in half :(.
     
  11. Ayle

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    Actually if you want to keep the aspect ratio to total viewing area is divided by 4. That kind of stuff would work better in a dual monitor situation. :(
     
  12. KnightZero

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    This is the first time I've seen anything like this - I couldn't do long gaming sessions like that, it takes quite a bit of focus for me, but that's the first time a 3d effect has made me go "Wow". Glasses based 3d just never did it for me, but that was really impressive.
     
  13. Thatoe

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    Isn't it easier and better to just do NVIDIA 3d vision discover?
    all you need is a pair of red-cyan glasses that cost a buck.
    and an nvidia graphics card.
     
  14. jerg

    jerg Have fun. Stay alive.

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    Yeah this method of 3D vision is....novelty at best. It's uncomfortable for long periods of use and prolonged practice could induce dizziness, inability to adjust your eyes back to normal vision, headaches, loss of balance, and tunneled vision.
    Or something...
     
  15. Thatoe

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    At least it's glassesless 3D!
    and it's free!
    I really want to see how it looks though.
    I just can't.
    I keep staring at the line between two pictures.
    Nothing is overlapping and there's no 3d for me.
     
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    Took me a while to get it, but it was really neat. Now I have a headache, however. Thanks.
     
  17. Ayle

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    Well the concept is pretty neat at leat. I have been watching 3d stuff on YouTube all day long without adverse effects and the thing that puzzle me is that the 3d illusion is much stronger with this than when I tried on active shutter glasses...

    By the way if you guys want to see more 3d stuff, you can search "whatever you want to watch"+ yt3d, google put a feature that allows you to select which method you want to use like the cyan-red glass, the cross-eye method and I think interleaved for the active shutter glasses.
     
  18. daranik

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    Takes more than a day to show adverse effects, its like a drug it takes time to build up in your system.
     
  19. jenesuispasbavard

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    No. Youtube does not use DirectX for fullscreen 3D, which means one can't use one's shutter glasses to watch Youtube 3D.
     
  20. Ayle

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    After a bit of digging around that interleaved is for passive polarized 3d glass. Does anyone have those 3d glasses they give you at movies to try?
     
  21. MrButterBiscuits

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    go to your local movie theater, they are required to get rid of a set of glasses every X days. Usually they wont have a problem giving you one of their old pairs before they toss them. :D
     
  22. tetutato

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    I can't do it!! The dots aren't moving :p
     
  23. shinakuma9

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    hmm so theres a way to get games into 3d just using movie glasses? I don't have a 120hz screen or the nvidia kit, just the display driver that supports 3d. is it possible?
     
  24. MrButterBiscuits

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    no lol, there is no way to force movie 3D into games as of yet.
     
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    I cant do it not enough vision in my bad eye, but I did get to strain my eyeballs trying.
     
  26. lozanogo

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    It is loss focus, not vision. ;)
     
  27. Laxxi

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    Found a pic of Ayle!

    [​IMG]

    Just kidding mate! Honestly, it's a cool trick with great novelty value. But I just don't see it catching on... Kind of uncomfortable and you lose detail along with focus. Makes that tasty GPU and 1080p display a little bit pointless!
     
  28. MrButterBiscuits

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    LOL thats awesome, +1 rep for that one
     
  29. Laxxi

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    Lol, couldn't resist.

    ^^
     
  30. Ayle

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    Nah... That ain't me. This is me: [​IMG]
     
  31. MrButterBiscuits

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    so your blind lol, must be from all the Cross eyed viewing :D haha
     
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    I lol'd, +rep
     
  33. Laxxi

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    Take a moment to philosophise!

    Can a cyclops go crosseyed?