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EA Has Joined The S-3D Gaming Alliance

August 30, 2009 in Press Release comments 7

Electronic Theatre reports on the announcement that international publisher Electronic Arts has joined The S-3D Gaming Alliance in order to promote Stereoscopic 3D gaming.

What began as a surprise announcement at SIGGRAPH 2009 has quickly become an industry-wide movement to ensure the adoption of Stereoscopic 3D (S-3D) gaming in consumer homes around the world.
kevcothirtythree via electronictheatre.co.uk »
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    Audioslave Aug 31, 09
    Can someone explain to me what Stereoscopic 3D is?
  • 0
    kevcothirtythree Aug 31, 09
    It's like 3D films, where you wear special glasses and the objects appear in ACTUAL 3D. It'd be great for FPS's in my opinion, those bullets from behind actually looking like they come shooting past your ear...
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      Audioslave Aug 31, 09
      Ah got ya.

      Well being as I know they'll charge extra money I'm not buying anything made by the crummy alliance.
  • 2
    Shuyu Aug 31, 09
    Or instead of flogging me gimmicks, companies could spend their time and money making perfectly fine regular games.
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    Daweii Aug 31, 09
    This gimmick will actually be more expensive than the gimmick that was HD. To play games in Stereoscopic 3D you need a 3D television and they are not cheap. If you though HDTV was expensive in it's prime then this is a huge step. What worries me is their willingness to jump to the technology when for another 5 years people will still be making the upgrade to HD not worrying about a HD3DTV.
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      Fallen Royalty Aug 31, 09
      Since when was HD a gimmick? I play on a standard CRT-TV that's less than 3 feet and 2 decades old. I go over to my friends' houses and they have eight-foot HD-TVs hooked up to their systems and it's so much better.
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        Daweii Aug 31, 09
        It was originally marketed as a gimmick that everyone would want... Games were suddenly better in HD even though we'd coped for 20 years in SD before it. Movies better in HD etc... It is slightly true but at first HD was a huge gimmick, whored like hell by Sony and Microsoft while marketing the PS3 and 360. It was the mother of all gimmicks for a while until it started to prove itself as more than that.

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