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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.""

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  1. Headaches? by masonbrown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked at SGI for a while - they had stereo goggles years ago, even had a couple of pairs lying around. No one used them at all because they gave people SEVERE headaches....

  2. It's great to see military tech trickle down like by Hairy_Potter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    this. These were originally developed for helicopter sims, when you're flying a 10 ton bird 10 meters off the earth at 200 knots, depth perception becomes very important.

    Of course, now they cost a lot less than $10,000 a pair.

    The funny part is just how many anti-globalization peaceniks who hate the militray would just cream their Guatamalen pants to play with these, I guess military stuff is bad, unless you find it entertaining.

  3. I have a pair.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I got a pair of 3d glasses about 3 months ago - They are called "Eye3d" - i have good refresh rates on my monitor, so flicker usually isn't a problem... Play for hours, no headache.. The games that work well with mine are: Quake3, Wolfenstein, and UT2003... UT works okay... not as 3d as it should be. Anyways, gameplay is usually better without the glasses for me, but its nice to see the game in 3d. I just wish there was a place to get cool 3d videos [cough]... haven't really found anything good.

  4. Re:What are you saying.. by theedge318 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually yes, the coolest 3D source that doesn't require stereoscopic vision is the .... museum.

    Now I know that is a large stretch for some of us slashdotters, getting out from behind our monitor to go look at static (still, not noisy) pictures.

    Anyways go find some good Renaissance art, or anything else that is done with persepective. Note: not all paintings are done in persecptive. Stand close to the painting ... as close as your eyes can tolerate (or the velvet rope/guard lets you) say 18", although this completely depends on the size of the painting.

    Now here is the trick ... cover you DOMINANT eye. Your brain will in fact adjust for the missing information from that eye ... and will begin recreating it for you, and actually generates the 3D information as if you were seeing with your good eye.

    Now, this might not work if you have lost your depth perception from too much gaming ... but if that is the case we don't want you getting in a car to drive to the museum anyways ... so just go back to looking at your 2D porn :)

    This trick is really cool ... and makes going to the museum considerably more fun for a techhead, and is great for impressing your date, who is inevitably in the liberal arts, b/c we are indesperate need of more female gearheads.

    Having done research with modeling applications for use with 3D shutter glasses, I can firmly tell you that this "trick" is much cooler than any glasses I have seen.

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  5. Re:I own these glasses by FrenZon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Nvidia's drivers work with Stereoscopic LCD shutter, and Red/blue"

    These drivers also work with proper VR Head Mounted Displays (Such as the relatively cheap i-o SVGA 3D glasses), making them their cards the perfect CHEAP choice for homebrew VR developers.


    Ugh, I had to post this message by VNCing to my home machine because /. seems to have blocked my entire IP block from posting.

  6. Linux Support by RichiP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just emailed sales@edimensional.com asking if they had Linux support. If anyone else is interested, take a few minutes to email them and let them know. I don't think they sell enough of these devices that they can afford Linux users with money to spend. Well? What r u waiting for?

    1. Re:Linux Support by RichiP · · Score: 2, Interesting

      typo ... i meant I don't think they sell enough of these devices that they can afford TO IGNORE Linux users with money to spend.

      If they DO port to linux, I'd buy two.

  7. Wake up! by Java+Pimp · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.prescoinc.com/high_speed/heads_up.htm :-)

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