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JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:33 pm

Now that 3D is taking off with 3D TV starting to be made and 3D capable computers and games being available, what are the chances of making Oolite 3D capable?

I have a friend who has been dabbling with 3D for about 10 years, making his own 3D movies and dabbling with the latest technology in this area. Last night he gave a demo of a football game and the 3D was amazing.

I was thinking how good could Oolite be in 3D.

Poro · Post by **Poro** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:06 pm

I run Oolite on a netbook connected to a LCD panel. My system chugs when I had just 1 griff boa in visible range... I think that 3D operates by rendering eveything twice (once for each eye), with the brain combining them together.

I don't think a 3D version of oolite would be good for those of us on shaderless low spec systems

For those with decent graphics cards though... I'm sure it would be great. Especially for whoever it was who built their own cockpit within which to play.

Sarin · Post by **Sarin** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:24 pm

I'd definitely wait till 3D gets out of diapers...from what I've heard, it is impossible to play 3D game for more than hour without headache.

Post by **Micha** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:13 pm

My first ever GeForce card (a 256 I think it was) came with a set of LCD glasses you could plug into the back of the card.

You could enable 3D for any OpenGL game with the driver - no special support required in-game (don't understand why you'd have to, considering as far as the game and rendering engines are concerned, everything is in 3D already anyway...).

Worked a treat with Halflife.

This is 10 years ago.

*yawn*

ADCK · Post by **ADCK** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:43 am

This new 3DTV thing seems gimicky to me, can't really see it catching on. It's like before they had colour TV you could buy a screen to put over your tv to make it look like it was colour! sounds fascinating right? Except all it was was a sheet of cellophane with the top half blue and the bottom half green (blue for sky, green for grass) Which didn't really work in all situations.

Bedides, the need to wear goggles is just silly. I'm sure these early models will be blamed in comming years for increased rates of eye-cancer, cataracts, blindness, needing to wear glasses, etc.

snork · Post by **snork** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:22 am

The main problem with them is if you are already wearing glasses.

And in the past - way too short cables; from the back of the PC to your head.

Dave McRoss · Post by **Dave McRoss** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:51 am

I'm waiting true holographic viewing system, I hate 3D googles.
Ah, and by the way I'm new here, so Hi!

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:47 am

Dave McRoss wrote:
I'm waiting true holographic viewing system, I hate 3D googles.
Ah, and by the way I'm new here, so Hi!

Welcome to the Board, reputed to be the friendliest this side of Riedquat!
Don't forget your Holographic viewer will become obsolete pretty quickly once a Neural Interface is released

well we can dream, can't we.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:41 pm

Dave McRoss wrote:
I'm waiting true holographic viewing system, I hate 3D googles.
Ah, and by the way I'm new here, so Hi!

I Dave McRoss - love your first posting - 3D Googles - now that's probably something Google probably haven't thought of yet...

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:58 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Dave McRoss wrote:
I'm waiting true holographic viewing system, I hate 3D googles.
Ah, and by the way I'm new here, so Hi!
I Dave McRoss - love your first posting - 3D Googles - now that's probably something Google probably haven't thought of yet...

But they have

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:04 pm

Ah, but apparently it only works on at the beginning of April each year and only for one day...

Dave McRoss · Post by **Dave McRoss** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:22 pm

But they do nothing ^^

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:20 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Now that 3D is taking off with 3D TV starting to be made and 3D capable computers and games being available, what are the chances of making Oolite 3D capable?

Due to the long viewing distances in space, stereoscopy probably wouldn’t be noticeable. Still, if you want to find out, feel free to buy me the necessary hardware. ;-)

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