Buddy Holly meets Weird Science-3D Glasses for $ 29.95

[DealyDo]

Add something to take it to $ 50.00 then use a$ 20.00 off coupon with free shipping. Whooohoo-Surround yourself with Frag, sprites, blood in 3D, unless you live in LA where all you have to do is look out the car window to see all this. Revelator 3D at Buy.com

 

[mchurchm]

looks interesting, but exactly what do these glasses do? If anyone has them, I'd like to hear what you think of them.

 

[Ranger X]

Sorry but this is a warm deal. I saw this on the front page of buy.com.

 

[zhensel]

I think these might need to be used in concert with an Elsa graphics card (though I don't think that is actually the case). Also, they only work for certain games and you may need to *buy* drivers to use them. Don't expect "instant 3d games" or anything like that.

 

[dna2z]

The glasses work by alternately letting light into one eye at a time. They are synchronized to the monitor, resulting in each eye seeing a slightly different image. This simulates 3d.

 

[jhassi]

i've had 3D glasses and they stank, they didn't look "3D". Different brand but they're probably all the same, can't expect much for $40

 

[ktg]

According to the specs (no pun) at the Elsa website (link for specs), the glasses are "Compatible with ELSA's GLoria II?, GLADIAC?, ERAZOR? X2, ERAZOR? X, ERAZOR? III, ERAZOR? II, WINNER? II, VICTORY? II, and cards that use TNT, TNT2, or GeForce chips", and "no special game version is required." I find that last part hard to believe. I would also assume that the glasses effectively chop your perceived frame rate in half since they alternately block the vision in one eye, then the other. Could be seizure-inducing! Let's start a class action right now!!

Seriously, would like input from someone who owns a pair.

 

[ktg]

I see Buy.com also sells the wireless version (infrared) for about $20.00 bucks more (Link). Anyone own a pair of these? Any good?

 

[DealyDo]

Just cut the wire off and wear them for fashion.

 

[unhuman]

How do you know the "wireless" ones are $20 more? The image clearly has wires and the text doesn't say wireless.

-Howie

 

[darkfyre]

heh heh DealyDo, you are quite witty. funny stuff.

anyway, ktg:
""no special game version is required." I find that last part hard to believe."

dont find it too hard to believe.. it's true. what you need to realize is that the card itself is basically one big 3d image generator, and all of the current games that use "3d" graphics are implementing objects and environments that all can potentially be put into true 3d by this alternating image/3dglasses/doublevision monitor thing. what you WONT get is 3d when you're web browsing, word processing, viewing slideshows, or anything else that doesn't pass through your 3d card's 3d processor unit.

yes, it's true that it cuts the perceived frame rate in half, because of the reason you noted. but also, it's not just perceived, the -true- frame rate is cut in half because the graphics card now has to generate two sets of images, one for each eye.

like many, i am also wondering if it possible to use these with non-elsa cards. i dont see why not, since i doubt any portion of the 3d glasses setup is implemented with special hardware, but there's the issue of ELSA being willing to make drivers compatible with non-elsa cards (which i dont think would be too hard to do, but hey, they're out to make money, not make people happy).

i tried a pair of these things on at PCExpo a couple months ago, and they work as intended, and you do get a real 3d effect, but it's not as drastic as you might hope for. everything looks pretty much 3-dimensional, and you have a pretty good sense of depth perception with these, but dont expect to trip over yourself from things flying at your head or anything.