New Mortal Kombat Will Be in 3D

[Torque669]

who owns 3D tvs? I still have a stv and doing fine

My TV broke so I got the new LG 3D HD TV which makes almost all of my games look stunningly gorgeous and I cant wait to put on my super cool looking 3D Glasses and watch as Subzero throws frozen heads at me.

 

[VanityGirl]

Why would I want my game to be in 3D? :|

I'm glad 360 isn't pushed 3D because quiet frankly, I do not care about 3D and until I can view 3D on a TV with having to wear stupid, expensive and uncomfortable glasses, I will not buy 3D games.

 

[CrystalShadow]

I'd wish people would stop requesting that 3D technology not be tethered to the glasses. Face it folks, it doesn't work without them. What you are referring to is holographic images, and outside of CNN and Star Wars, we aren't much closer to getting that available to the public in general, so stop making ridiculous requests.

Oh, really now. The Nintendo 3DS shows at least one option. (and I might add similar glasses free tech was used in a laptop 2-3 years ago regardless.)

Then there's this article:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103870-Glasses-Free-3D-Coming-to-TV-Next-Week

Furthermore there's the research company 'SeeReal'

Who produce tech that is then licensed out to mainstream manufacturers.

http://www.seereal.com/

Let's see:

Among their stuff that's already available:
http://www.seereal.com/en/autostereoscopy/technology_cn.php - Autostereoscopic 3d display for PC's. No glasses required, but the effect only works if you're sitting in the correct spot. (sound familiar?)

http://www.seereal.com/en/autostereoscopy/NextGen.php - Similar Autostereoscopic system without the need for glasses. Can cope with multiple viewers and varied viewing angles, by adding in extra optics and eye-tracking systems. Not yet commercially produced it seems, but not a huge leap in manufacturing compared to existing LCD systems.

http://www.seereal.com/en/holography/holography_technology.php - Wait. What? Yes, you're seeing that correctly. This exists as a working prototype. Using similar eye-tracking systems to the previous one they've devised a system that can correctly account for how our eyes actually perceive light without having to resort to the near impossible task of creating a full hologram for every conceivable angle. (the eye-tracking essentially reduces it to about a 2 degree field of view, and 1 million times reduction in required screen resolution and graphics processing power) What's more, the prototype was built using off-the-shelf LCD components combined with high-end retail PC graphics systems to do the calculations.
The first prototype was shown about 3 years ago... Still, I'd give it another 10 years or so before this shows up commercially.
But... Tech that works in prototype form, and is relatively easy to manufacture to boot is hardly something that's restricted to the far future and wild sci-fi fantasies...

Honestly. 3d tech is far further developed than it's given credit for.
We're just playing catchup with whatever systems are currently the most economical to implement.
(And it just so happens the polarised glasses based systems don't require much more than being able to make a tv with a high frame-rate. - 240hz... Hell, on PC you can do it with any monitor that can refresh fast enough, and suitable glasses. - The graphics hardware from NVIDIA and ATI have had the feature for more than a decade, it's just rarely implemented in the drivers...)

 

[Trifixion]

I'm bored with all this 3D stuff already. When the hell are they going to invent 4D TV? You know, TV that allows you to watch all your favorite programs and play all your favorite games while no real-world time passes at all so you then have lots of free time to do whatever else you might want to do?