Virtual Reality 3D Gaming Glasses

[CGRemakes]

Has anyone ever tried out those 3D gaming glasses?  Sounds like it would make gaming, especially first person shooters even better.  It could be one of those things that sounds good on paper, but doesn't really work, but I'm curious what anyone has found out.  X-gaming has there 3D glasses on Ebay for $49.99, which seemed pretty reasonable to me, but they may not be worth that much.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11047&item=3022827601

About the only down side I can see to these particular glasses is they appear to focus mainly on NVidia video cards (which I have, so it's not a problem).

[TheTick]

I haven't used those specific ones. But I've had two different brands of steroscopic glasses for the computer. 3D? blech!

Basicly little LCD that alternatively flash... to alternatly block each eyes vision. They were supposed to sync up with special software on the computer (Descent for example), which would switch between to different perspectives of the same view.

Made me sick.

Faster computers these days and designed to work with a specific video card? Might have better results, but unless its made by Imax I wouldn't bother.

[SirPoonga]

even real VR glasses have been known to make people sick.  Personally, I'd build a CAVE if I had the money:)

[Generic Eric]

Cave:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cave+%2B+virtual

[JesterDEV]

I bought a pair once. Dont remember what they where... They werent all that great. 3D? Not even close.

[anthony691]

Oh God! Act-Labs one's BLOW! They just make you ill, and make NOTHING 3d!

[aj6500]

Dunno, the chunks rolling down the screen looked pretty 3 dimensional.  Definitey technocolor.

[shmokes]

These aren't exactly 3D glasses, but Olympas/Panasonic make a few models of Home Theater glasses that simulate being in a dark room sitting about 7 feet away from a 65" screen (I think the size can be adjusted down).  The most expensive model is $1000, so they're not for the average person, but they kick ass.  

I was thinking that a full fledged cockpit racing/flight cab would be amazingly immersive using these instead of a conventional monitor.  It would be especially cool if they had head tracking that would act like a hat-switch in flight games, but I don't know if anyone has done this.

[Grasshopper]

Some 3D glasses came bundled with my graphics card. I can't remember the exact name of the card offhand but it's based on the Nvidia GeForce2 MX chipset.

I have to say that with the right game they are absolutely superb. They work particularly well with Tomb Raider 3.

The software is a bit flaky and hard to set up. However it's worth the effort.

The only real problem is that using the glasses effectively halves the frame rate. So to avoid unacceptable flicker you must be running your monitor at a bare minimum of 100 frames per second.

If you haven't got a good monitor then I'd forget it.

[CGRemakes]

Yea, I have a Dell 19" monitor that will support up to 100 hz refresh rate at 1024 x 768, and even higher at 800 x 600, so I should be fine.

[Chris]

I have a pair, but I never use them.  I would mount 'em to my cab if Subroc 3D supported 'em, though...

--Chris