Sony's 3D PlayStation 3: Hands-on photos
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Nate Lanxon/CNET)
BERLIN--We heard Sony was showing off a 3D PlayStation 3 here at IFA. Curious, we headed to the enormous Sony stand where we discovered a young boy--DualShock controller in-hand, 3D glasses mounted on his visibly excited face--playing the PS3's Wipeout racing game on a massive 3D television.
Naturally, we had to kick him off so we could have a play. For the next five minutes we blazed through the game's futuristic raceways with a perception of depth we've never experienced before, all presented in 1080p high-definition and vivid color. And in just more than a year, Sony told us, it expects to be selling the same experience in European stores.
Today, our experience involved a regular PS3. All the three-dimensional horsepower comes not from a modified PlayStation, or even special versions of its games--it's all down to some ingenious picture-processing technology inside a new Bravia TV (currently a prototype). This means it should work with all existing PlayStation 3 games. At least, that's the intention.
At the end of 2010, Sony plans to release this 3D Bravia for use with its games console. But over the following two or three years, we were told, it wants to build the picture-processing technology into the PlayStation itself. That way, gamers will be able to enjoy 3D gaming on any high-def TV. Plans to incorporate the system into Blu-ray players, and even Vaio laptops, also exist.
The downside is that the picture-processing technology will only work for games--it requires computer-generated imagery to function, so can't currently be applied to movies and TV shows.
But would that stop you investing? Does a PlayStation 3D sound like your idea of gaming nirvana? Leave your thoughts below.
(Source: Crave UK)
Here is to hoping I can continue to game at all in the future.
GeForce 3D Vision
And it works for a lot of games, and the result is beautiful. Personally when gaming, the whole point of all our tech advanced in the realm of graphics have been to add realism, however that caps out when you are still working with a flat screen.
"3D is a fad" - That's a bad assessment to make, imo. It'll just get cheaper and look better, and it's simple the natural evolution of video technology. It provides realism that will hit a ceiling with just flat photorealism.
"it's all down to some ingenious picture-processing technology inside a new Bravia TV"
No... No way in hell, this has to come from the PS3 itself, and at the heavy cost of twice the rendering power, since you need a different perspective for each eye. (in other words this is very much impossible on games that are already pushing the PS3 in any way, such as memory limits, CPU, GPU, etc.)
"This means it should work with all existing PlayStation 3 games. At least, that's the intention."
Nope, no way in hell either. at least not in a regular PS3... who knows if the PS3 slim is capable though, since after all it could easily be 2x faster than the old bulky PS3 because of the smaller chips, however this would still leave lots of compatibility issues on many games.
Anyone that has any basic understanding on how true 3d works knows this, should get your facts straight before you post an article that pretty much seems like alchemy.
Games developed with 3d glasses in mind are going to look best, since there will be no pesky UI issues, and developers will exploit pop out properly this way.
So in a nutshell, you guys got your facts wrong, or the guy (guys) presenting the PS3 3D had no clue what they were talking about. (i'm leaning towards this one.) at lest when it comes to how the games will do 3d, not doubting their TV specs or type of glasses here.
Pretty simple eh?
As for the information provided that the TV would be the one processing the image, well... I can't see that happening. From information that has been floating around for almost a year now the PS3 will work with a 120hz HDTV and a pair of glasses.... This is also based on information of the Nvidia card already in the system and Nvidia's current HD3D Vision.
While a informative article Mr. Lanxon, I think there is more information out there that not only would find your article out dated... but would also contradict such.
- by mikemc3 November 23, 2009 8:00 AM PST
- They seriously need to fix 3D technology first before I would be interested. Tried the various 3d tech fads in the past and the results were very disappointing. You look at the image from ANYWHERE other directly in front or if the image is off on the side of the screen the image splits. And it is seriously headache inducing.
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(28 Comments)Purchased some 3D Gaming glasses a couple years back at a computer show. They had Microsoft Flight-Sim as a demo game. Took the thing home and of my entire library of games it only worked on 2 of them. Was a complete waste of money.
I wish Sony luck, but will definitely be buyer beware.