Sadly this hasn’t looked like changing for a while, with modern prototype displays pitched more at scientists, researchers and industry than consumers, and with the extortionate pricing to match.īelieve it or not, that's a game of Left 4 Dead right there So, while the idea of 3D entertainment has been with us for a while, genuine consumer 3D has remained unconvincing and clunky or prohibitively expensive. While split lenses meant 3D films could be recorded to a single strip of film, saving on projection costs, the result was nowhere near as convincing as footage recorded using twin cameras and displayed using dual projectors, a process that was twice as expensive and unattractive to studios of the day. The newer polarising setups required specialist projection equipment and screens, making it useless for home displays.īoth formats were also disadvantaged by the use of standard camera equipment used to record the footage or, in the case of more modern attempts, the use of split lenses. The older red and green filter technique (known as anaglyph), while requiring no specialist equipment to display and well suited to black and white movies, failed to translate to colour cinema. Neither effect was particularly convincing or successful. The resurgent interest in 3D films in the 1950s and 1980s saw only a mild improvement with the switch to polarising lenses and dual strip film or dual projectors to generate a 3D effect over certain elements.Īre old 3D glasses like this about to come back into fashion? No. Memories of 1930s creature features presented in “terrifying 3D” relied on red and green cardboard glasses to create a painfully unconvincing effect. While the technology and concept has always shown promise though, it’s only recently that 3D has started to mature into something fit for purpose.
Genuinely three dimensional films and games are something of a technological holy grail – the possibility of taking traditional forms of entertainment beyond the confines of a two dimensional screen in a way that everyone can easily use and enjoy is certainly tantalising enough to have drawn heavy investment from major electronics manufacturers and Hollywood studios alike.ģD Displays, no matter how niche and expensive, are currently on show at this week’s CES show in Las Vegas and James Cameron’s in production film, Avatar, has been shot entirely in Stereoscopic 3D. Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision and The History of 3D Manufacturer: Nvidia
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