How do you watch Phoenix in 3D?

[cjcj1949]

I looked at the Nvidia site and they say that some games can be viewed in 3D. Does this work with Phoenix? There is a video on Youtube showing 3D viewing on a 3D TV.

Chris

[Gareth-71]

Hi

there is 3D and 3D lol

Phoenix is already 3D, just not the 3D where you wear special glasses.

Gareth

[cjcj1949]

I don't understand the answer. Perhaps it's 2D to 3D conversion that I'm asking about. It seems possible to watch phoenix on a 3D tv and use the 2D to 3D option to see it in 3D. Is it useful for practice or just an inaccurate illusion? If so will Phoenix be offered in accurate 3D in the future?

Chris

[horsham rc]

How do 3D movies work? Essentially, they present the audience with two slightly different views of the film. How this is done varies with different technologies. Originally, 3D movies used the anaglyph technique, using red green glasses. This is the technique that you must use to appreciate the 3D graphic on this page, since computer screens are still limited with respect to 3D. Increasingly, cinemas make use of polarizing filters to distinguish the two viewpoints, and the audience wears polarising glasses. The polarising filters can be linearly polarizing or circularly polarizing. Circular polarisation is rather difficult to understand but it does have the advantage to being more tolerant of head movement on the part of the viewer. Polarization has to do with how the light wave is oriented with respect to its direction of travel, whereas colour has to do with the wavelengths of the light. Because polarizing separation of the stereo views does not exclude certain colours (as happens in anaglyphs) the movie can be viewed in a much more convincing colour palette.



not sure but this may help you understand

i think its the same prinsible for a game ( phoenix sim ) it would need to be desighned in 3d witch it is not, well not the 3d like the movies any how.
this could all be rong but its my view..

look at this as i thought you will need 3d glasses and the sim to be desighned in 3d .http://www.flightsimtalk.com/2009/01...n-full-3d.html

[gowen]

It is possible to run Phoenix on Nvidia 3D hardware with suitable 3D glasses. There is a thread on the Nvidia Forums about it. There was a second thread I found as well when I was invesigating options for a new laptop. From what I can remember Realflight works better in 3D than Phoenix, but neither were so good that I would pay the extra £300 to get a 3D capable laptop.

[Gareth-71]

Hi

Games, like phoenix operate in a 3D space. things further away from you move slower and you can rotate the model etc. The model is draw in 3D so when you rotate it you are seeing the other side. This is true 3D.

The 3D that is the latest trend, i.e. 3D TV's do what horsham rc says, its uses a technique to make it look like objects are protruding from the screen.

They both have the 3D buzzword but are very different. An image from a 2D space can be made look 3D. topographic photos are an example, two photos of the same scene with a slight offset can be made to look 3D if special glasses are worn.

i.e. on Phoenix the space is 3D, on a 3D TV if you close one eye it is no longer 3D.

You can get video cards that make a 3D space also look 3D .......

Hope that helps....

Gareth

[Kozmyk]

It's simple. all you have to do is place your eyes 6 feet apart and you get the 3D effect for nothing.
I don't know what all the fuss is about ...

[cjcj1949]

Far out man. Done that.

Chris