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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.

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.

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.

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*

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

But they do nothing ^^

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. ;-)