So is 3D dead? It is to me.

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CurrentlyPissed

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I have a Samsung 50" Plasma 3D TV, cleaning the house Sunday to prep for having a Christmas dinner, I found my 4 pairs of 3D Glasses, and kinda went... What are these for?


I had completely forgot I had a 3D TV. Don't get me wrong, it presents 3D very well, and I actually forgot how fun some movies are watching it (namely disney/pixar movies).

But now thinking about it, I don't remember the last 3D Movie/Video I have even seen.

Is the gimmick over?
 
Home 3D seems to have been a fad. I'm even seeing fewer 3D movies playing at the local theatre (only 2 out of 12 movies playing in it right now are 3D). It's cool and all, but wearing 3D glasses over my prescription glasses has always been uncomfortable and distracting for me.
 
Munkus said:
Home 3D seems to have been a fad. I'm even seeing fewer 3D movies playing at the local theatre (only 2 out of 12 movies playing in it right now are 3D). It's cool and all, but wearing 3D glasses over my prescription glasses has always been uncomfortable and distracting for me.
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3D Glasses, and Headphones are the main thing that pushed me to get contacts. And I am forever grateful. But I know what you mean, it was a pain.
 
There are a lot of people who either can't see the 3D effect, or get nasty headaches from trying.

They probably stopped bothering before too many lawsuits started rolling in.

Ah, who are we kidding, it didn't rake in the cash like they expected, so now they changed 3D to 4K.
 
CurrentlyPissed said:
Is the gimmick over?
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It was over before it started as far as I'm concerned.

I don't have a 3DTV, but my brother does. He used the 3D feature to watch a movie on it one time... ONCE, and it was the day I helped him bring it home from the store just to try it out.

Its somewhat cool, but the problem is its just not something that's good enough to forever change how you want to watch content. In comparison, when HD became standardized, once you watch TV in high-def you really cannot go back to standard-def and be happy. This is not the case with 3D. Still can go back to watching a movie traditionally without any problem.

I can also tell you right now, I'd bet almost anything that VR gaming is going to suffer the same fate for pretty much the same reasons.
 
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Me and my daughter watch 3d movies on our 65" all the time. I didn't think I'd ever use it but we do quite frequently (we watch Coraline a lot on there).
 
Not all TV's did it well, not all movies did 3D well... equalled allot of underwhelmed customers. It's great when a given movie nails it, it's completely meh otherwise.
 
I have around 30 3D movies and keep buying more of them (when they go on sale)

In some cases 4k is helping 3D. My parents own a 65" Sony 4k that uses passive 3D. Since passive 3D viewing cuts your resolution in half a lot of people don't like it but wait half of 4k is 1080p... it looks damn good with excellent separation, no ghosting etc.

So a 4k TV with passive 3D is the best thing you can buy right now for 3D viewing.

I have IR 3D glasses for my VT25 and bluetooth for my Sony W900A set. While I think both look good to me - the 4K 1080p passive is better... sigh.

Our latest 3D titles we purchased are Guardians of the Galaxy and The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Extended Edition. I only watch 3D extended edition of Hobbit movies and don't bother with the theatrical release. Sometimes I will place a chair 4 feet from my 65 inch plasma and enjoy a show in full immersion.

You guys are missing out.
 
I buy 'em in 3d when I have the chance... don't have a 3d display, but will upgrade my projector probably next year and they're pretty much all 3d.
 
Trunks0 said:
Not all TV's did it well, not all movies did 3D well... equalled allot of underwhelmed customers. It's great when a given movie nails it, it's completely meh otherwise.
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A lot of people have impaired depth perception issues as well.
 
I'm glad it died, I had hoped from the start it would die because I wasn't excited at the potential fun of having to wear ****ing glasses to watch tv, movies, etc. I also hate the weird depth it does nothing for me for movies. They say it makes it more interactive, to me it makes it a distracting pain in the ****ing ass to watch.
 
I also think it's dead because they want to push 4K sets but have no way in hell to deliver 4k 3D on it. HDMI cannot do it and it would take big data devices to deliver two 4k streams for 3D.

I hope HDMI dies off and DisplayPort replaces it.
 
I like it for some animated movies, I try to avoid fast paced action movies because they usually look like butt.
 
I prefer 3d. HFR 3d in particular. Anything worth watching in the first place is better in 3d.

However, gimmicky crap scenes just made to emphasize the 3d effect at the cost of immersion in the story and its world do need to die.
 
I was originally excited with the idea of 3D gaming, i would have bought a TV with 3D if i saw push towards that.

I have a PS3 and there are a few games for that, none really for 360 and im not sure if there were many for PC.

I thought with the advent of next-gen consoles 3D would be an option in every game then i would have purchased a TV for that alone.

I find most cinema releases are not filmed in 3D they pay a company to add it in artifically.
 
There are 3D games for the PS4. I have two of them. One is a Pinball game and the other is Trine 2. They say Sniper Elite is 3D as well but never tried it. The 3D looks really good in Trine 2.

Not happy they don't have the option to let two players see different screens using 3D glasses that lock on either the left or right frames. My glasses will use that mode but the PS4 doesn't have any titles that use it.
 
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I was originally excited with the idea of 3D gaming, i would have bought a TV with 3D if i saw push towards that.

I have a PS3 and there are a few games for that, none really for 360 and im not sure if there were many for PC.

I thought with the advent of next-gen consoles 3D would be an option in every game then i would have purchased a TV for that alone.

I find most cinema releases are not filmed in 3D they pay a company to add it in artifically.
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Technically, any PC game can be played in 3D. The limitations are on how well the game's content handles it and/or how well the graphics drivers handle it. PC gamer's have been dabbling in 3D for a very long time.
 
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There are 3D games for the PS4. I have two of them. One is a Pinball game and the other is Trine 2. They say Sniper Elite is 3D as well but never tried it. The 3D looks really good in Trine 2.

Not happy they don't have the option to let two players see different screens using 3D glasses that lock on either the left or right frames. My glasses will use that mode but the PS4 doesn't have any titles that use it.
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Thanks for the information sadly only a few games there, if they started to make a lot of the big titles 3D i'd be all a new 3D telly by now.

Trunks0 said:
Technically, any PC game can be played in 3D. The limitations are on how well the game's content handles it and/or how well the graphics drivers handle it. PC gamer's have been dabbling in 3D for a very long time.
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Cool with have to take a look around :)
 
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