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eDimensional Wired 3D Glasses Review

Posted by michael on from the motion-sickness-bags-mandatory dept.

Julio writes "Today at TechSpot we have reviewed eDimensional's Wired 3D Glasses, based on the original 3D Stereo technology that became popular a few years ago, these revamped version of the glasses seem to offer much more value and compatibility to the table. Adding amazing effects to games we tested which include Jedi Outcast and some other racing and flight simulators, this item could easily make it into your holiday shop list... "The images looked very cool, and I spent about 10 minutes gawking at my new surroundings. After playing around with Jedi Outcast, I was ready for more. I checked the supported game list, and just about every game I had was listed there.""

20 of 210 comments (clear)

  1. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Will it let you see the fnords?


    "My God, it's full of trolls..."

    1. Re:But... by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Will it let you see the"

      The what? Will it let me see the what? maybe you hit Submit to early?

  2. I'll only buy these if... by mr_gerbik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll only buy these if they support my favorite porn sites and virtual girlfriend games...

  3. Not quite 3 dimensional by product+byproduct · · Score: 4, Funny

    eDimensional means 2.71828dimensional.

  4. One flaw... by Cyclopedian · · Score: 3, Funny
    This device needs stereoscopic vision, which some people don't have.

    It could be as simple as one eye with a cataract (cloudy vision), so you begin to rely solely on one eye.

    Wake me when they start to have glasses that can fire lasers into your eye to display images. It could possibly bypass the cataract and other ocular anomalies.

    -Cyc

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  5. And how... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... would these glasses make my bash prompt look any better? Or emacs, for that matter.

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    1. Re:And how... by alister667 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Fair point, but imagine what these could do for Nethack!

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    2. Re:And how... by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 5, Funny

      Thats why emacs sucks. Vi has supported these glasses for years.

    3. Re:And how... by leoboiko · · Score: 2, Funny

      The 3D yellow 'c' that haunts me in my dreams will come true...

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  6. Headache quotient equation by crumbz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amount of fun provided by 3-D glasses (1 to 100)

    divided by

    Inverse of number of minutes until splitting headache

    equals

    Headache Quotient Factor

    Hopefully HQF is > than 1000.

  7. Re:Headaches? by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those older SGI glasses were twin 14" monitors strapped to the persons head. That might explain the headaches.

  8. I find I avoid headaches when using these... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    by closing one eye.

  9. Virtual Boy by frankthechicken · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why on earth would I need a pair of these glasses when I already have the perfect headache inducing piece of kit in this ?

    I think later versions came with a free pack of aspirins.

  10. Great glasses by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heard in the basement of the parents house of the guy who houses the Tech Spot server...

    Julio: "Oh man, these glasses are trick! That image of a burning server looks TOTALLY real.

    Franko:Dude, you took the glasses off 10 minutes ago. That IS our server.

  11. Re:Stereo glasses by cybermace5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only at 1 pixel by 1 pixel black-and-clear resolution, per eye.

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  12. How does this look? by bovilexics · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crud, already can't get to the site. Well here is some information not included in the article...

    Here is a image of what the /. effect looks like when using these glasses.

    [begin image]








    [end image]

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  13. Re:But what about.. by syrinx · · Score: 4, Funny

    ok, I swear I thought that said "anus glasses".

    i really need some sleep.

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  14. perception problems by eegad · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know that early efforts at 3-d glasses resulted in serious depth perception problems (i.e. 15 minutes of play would take many hours of recovery time). This resulted in a large number of traffic accidents by the beta testers as they went home after testing. Any such problems with these reported? If not, how did they get around them?

  15. Re:Nitpicking (karma to burn) by pyrrho · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I hate to pick nits

    hell... who doesn't?! but it's better than having lice!

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  16. Nor for eye by Rareul · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a one-eyed freak since about birth, I have to tell you that I am
    amazed at the amount of time you multi-eyed folks have wasted on
    3d perception.

    About the only problem I've ever noticed with the 2d world is missing baseline jumpers, a few tough pool shots,
    and a lack of desire for huge breasts .)

    Hell, they even had a Seinfeld about multi-eyed folks wasting time on those darn 3d pictures.
    Remember George coming out of the bathroom with his shirt off in the middle of that party?

    ?sp