Monitor with 3d support?

Wait until 3d isn't a gimmick (if it can ever outgrow that) and more games and movies start adopting the 3d approach. Then 3d monitors will be more refined and it will be worth the purchase. If Avatar is anything to go by, 3d is the next logical step forward in terms of immersion.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Basically any display that can do 120Hz can do 3D. AFAIK
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Nope. While 100/120Hz is a requirement, you also need to synchronise the glasses to the screen, that requires a transmitter of some description to be integrated with the screen.
 
You don't need the glasses really. Just get the monitor with 120Hz support, pop the movie in and then put your hands over your eyes and alternately flap them really quickly. You'll get the same headache anyway. :D
 
lol...I never get a headache from 3d movies :P...but thanks for the info :P
 
how would they do that? since 3D in movie houses is a polarized picture using two projectors? How does a flat panel display two polarized images on a display thats facing one way?
 
Two frames, one for the left eye, the other for the right, shown after each other. Then use a pair of toggling glasses to close the appropriate eye.
 
rurapente said:
how would they do that? since 3D in movie houses is a polarized picture using two projectors? How does a flat panel display two polarized images on a display thats facing one way?
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you wear special glasses that block out light on each lens on demand. The monitor then makes two images (hence 120hz), one image for the left eye (when this image is made, the glasses (which are synchronized to the monitor) will block the right eyes lens. So only your left eye can see the screen). Then on the next frame, the screen shows the eye rights image (then the glasses lens over the right eye becomes see through and then the lens over the left eye blocks light from passing through (opaque) so only the right eye can see the image on the screen).

The idea behind this method of 3D is basically using the fact that your eyes are apart (like 5cm's apart)/have a space between them. This means each eye see's a slightly different image of an object. A way to visualize this is hold your finger about 30cm away from your face, now focus on your finger, now you close your left eye, then open your left eye and close your right eye... you will notice you see slightly different sides of your finger and you will notice the finger "moves". Well, that's exactly how this 3D system works. It generates an image for your left eye (just like when you close your right eye, you see a different image through your left eye) and blocks your right eye from seeing anything. Then the next frame it generates the image you'd see from your right eye and at the same time blocks your left eye from seeing anything. In effect it simulates 3D :D.

However, some people get headaches because some people have a dominant eye, and the system doesn't take that into account... so your brain gets confused by the weird new things it's seeing... so you feel kinda sick, light headed, and uneasy.
 
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