I’ve seen adverts for 3d glasses for some time, the old TNT graphics cards use to come with support for ‘revelator’ glasses and the nVidia drivers had stero support built in for many years. However due to the way these glasses work you’ve always needed a CRT monitor with a high refresh rate (~120hz) to see the effect. Moving back to a mahoosive CRT and an ancient gfx card isn’t really an option if you want to play any newer games, so I (and I’m sure many others) have never really had a chance to try them out.

Recently I noticed an advert for these eDimensional Wireless 3D Glasses that claim to work on a standard LCD screen and promise you will “experience the latest in virtual reality technology with 3D images that float inside and outside of your monitor” in “all of your favorite gaming titles”. Hmmm, but as they were realatively cheap (sub £50) I thought I’d give them a go. There seems to be very little info on these glasses out there on the net post ‘05, which is about when nVidia stopped supporting it’s consumer stereo 3d driver. I though a quick review could be useful for anyone else interested in giving stereoscopic 3d gaming a try on an LCD.
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If you are looking to get started with Papervision but have no idea where to start, check out this great Breeze presentation of Pelle Klit Christensen’s presentation at the DFUG. He covers the whole process, from setting up your dev environment, through texturing and exporting from 3DSMax, to getting it all running in Papervision. Well worth a watch!

Really nice use of a 3d engine on the site of Japanese designer Masayuki Kido, Roxik.com.

He’s also produced a really fun little viral drawing game called pictaps, see my attempt here.

just been playing with a 3d app called ZBrush, very cool, only problem is you can’t save your work with the demo, this guy took about a 2 hours and all I have left are the jpegs

Amazing results for the first time using a brand new 3d app though, would never have been able to do this much detail in Max!

This is seriously impressive 3d video work, and an amazing concept…
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