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My wife and I had never enjoyed 3D much at the movies. Those blue and red glasses were a joke. There was one exception to this, and strangely (never a more appropriate word) enough, it was the Captain EO presentation at Disneyland. There were polarized glasses, and the presentation was dynamic and achieved the best 3D effects I’d ever seen. Anyone who saw that little furry teddy bear (or whatever it was) fly right in front of their face will forget it.

Then a month or so ago, I went to our local Sony store and checked out their pre-release 3D floor model. Folks, it was incredibly clear. The depth was stunning.

In one scene there as an animated representation of traffic at a stand still. Every car all the way back looked farther away than the one in front of it. It was great.

I know folks think they won’t like this, but my take on it is that after this really catches on, we won’t be going back to 2D television, EVER.

Imagine watching a sporting event with the baseball, football or players coming at you in 3D.

This is going to change everything. It will truly be like being there, and you’ll have a seat just a few feet from every play.

Imagine a play where you are just a few feet from the characters. It will seem like you are on stage with them. The same will be true for television programs like 24, Chuck, or whatever.

You are about to become a witness to things from just feet away.

Don’t underestimate what is about to take place here.

I own a pair of these 3-D glasses, although it is for the PC and computer games. Dell threw them and a special monitor in as a perk for buying a new PC in December. I, too, was skeptical when they arrived. That all changed when I fired up the first game. They are, in a word, breathtaking. The biggest difference is what I can only describe as separation between objects that are at different depths from the viewer. In addition to the depth separation, all objects do not appear flat, but seem to have the same shape as they do in real life. The effect is stunning, much better than the old 3-D with colored glasses, which looked like a Viewmaster slide that moved.

This will be a revolution in home viewing. The system I have, called Nvidia 3-D Vision, also works with particular HD TVs, but I can not speak to that.

No headaches, nausea, anything; just awesome visuals that really bring whatever you are playing to life. I highly recommend them.

Marc

As long as the viewer has to wear glasses it’s a toy. I won’t wear the idiot glasses, that don’t get along with my regular glasses, at the theater where I’m doing nothing but watching the movie. At home, where I’m also doing things like reading, chatting with the wife, and just generally living my life, there is simply no way I would even contemplate wearing the idiot glasses.

3D with glasses will change nothing, except lightening a few people’s bank accounts. If they ever get it to work without the glasses then yet it will change everything. But the glasses are just plain a non-starter for too many people.