3D DISCOVER Glasses

b-star · 23 Sep 2009 at 17:02

Hi, wonder if someone got this glasses?
are they good?

I know there's 2 types of them:

green-red & Blue-red...
so if movie or games requires blue-red, and you have blue-green, it won't work!

thanks

WILD9 · 23 Sep 2009 at 18:36

They are red-cyan(blue) glasses, I dont have them but I looked them up so I could buy a couple of sets of 50p cardboard 3d glasses from the bay to try 3d discover. most 3d is red-cyan but a few recent films like journey to the centre of the earth 3d are red-green.

b-star · 23 Sep 2009 at 20:22

if you get them, can you tell how good are they?

liamcrane · 23 Sep 2009 at 20:48

i got some cardboard ones free with my 260gtx but cant use them as i dont have vista or win 7

wanna try em on cod4 and batman once i recieve my win 7 roll on october!

Redache · 23 Sep 2009 at 23:18

Don't you need a 120Hz Monitor to use it properly? I'm sure I've read somewhere that that's a requirement. I believe it was Samsung that had the only model that was "Certified" by Nvidia.

It seems like a little bit of a gimmick to me.

D D Danneh · 23 Sep 2009 at 23:27

Redache said:
Don't you need a 120Hz Monitor to use it properly? I'm sure I've read somewhere that that's a requirement. I believe it was Samsung that had the only model that was "Certified" by Nvidia.

It seems like a little bit of a gimmick to me.

That's for stereoscopic 3D. The 3D Discover thing is like the old fashioned 3d movies, where you wear the red and blue glasses and the image on screen has red and blue "ghosts" to each side, and it gives a 3D effect, which is good, but obviously, only seeing red and blue sort of ruins it.

Stereoscopic (or the version that needs 120Hz) is much better, in that you wear special glasses that close each eye very quickly, so you only ever see the screen through one eye at once. By synchronizing the screen and glasses together, the image on screen can flicker between the "eyes" of the camera in the game, so that you see like you do in real life, which is what helps us perceive depth. It needs 120Hz to get smooth motion, so you get 60fps to each eye, although I personally don't see why it wouldn't work at 60Hz (30fps to each eye). I imagine it wouldn't work as well, but it'd still be possible.

Obviously though, a pair of 50p cardboard red and blue glasses are much cheaper than a 120Hz monitor and the special flickering glasses.

Coldzero · 24 Sep 2009 at 07:44

Redache said:
It seems like a little bit of a gimmick to me.

Yeah that's the impression I got.

AnDyR0o · 24 Sep 2009 at 09:05

I cant really imagine this would look that good, would be nice to try it at some point though.

b-star · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:27

exactly, if they are so cheap, I really want to try them, but dunno where to get

WILD9 · 24 Sep 2009 at 13:42

I generally think its all a bit of a gimmick, at least untill 3d tv is a bit more refined but it struck me the other night playing GRID that depth perception would be a massive bonus in racing games where your trying to brake at the right moment before a corner etc, just wanted to try it out on the cheap.