Computers offer the best and most
impressive gaming graphics, besting any other console found
on today’s market; however as of late we have the PC
losing some ground as a gaming platform due to impressive
development efforts from the popular console makers; a
relatively new system with a powerful graphics card offers
the most realistic graphics you’ll ever lay your eyes on.
Not satisfied with that, PC gamers are
always looking for the next best thing to enhance their
visual experience. Some might purchase a flat screen
monitor; others may choose a faster graphics card which
handles higher resolutions. Now that your system is decked
out to the hilt, what’s next? Well, companies like
eDimensional hope you will eventually add some 3D Gaming
glasses to the mix.
3D glasses have been out for some time
now, but the technology is getting better with every
release. Companies like NVIDIA continue to update drivers to
improve the 3D gaming experience, which has many companies
believing that some day all gamers will own a pair. So is
this really the next best thing, or will this leave you
looking like a geek for nothing?
Today I’ll be reviewing a pair of 3D
glasses made by a company called eDimensional. The company
was founded in 2000, mainly focusing on enhancing the
multimedia experience.
They call their 3D technology E-D,
and promise it to supply you with an amazing submersive 3D
environment. One of the main reasons I decided to review
this product was to see how it compared to the DTI 2015XLS
3D LCD Display I reviewed not so long ago, if you can recall
that expensive gadget costs nothing less but $1700.
How
It Works
I don’t know the technical lingo to
explain how 3D works, but I’ll sum it up as best I can.
Basically, people have two eyes and your eyes see things
from a perspective when looking at objects depending on
their locations, which is called binocular disparity. One
eye sees one side of an object, and the other eye sees the
other side. Your brain uses both views to create one three
dimensional image. So this means the depth you actually see
is just a perception of what the brain thinks it is; it may
not actually be the true look of an image. Pretty weird
stuff, eh?
Anyhow,
the E-D system shows you a two eye view from your computer
monitor. The depth-of-field is simulated using
shutter-glasses with lenses that can alternate between clean
and opaque (blocks light). While using the glasses, a left
eye image is first displayed on a computer monitor, and the
shutter-glasses left lens is clear, while the right lens is
dark. The image on the monitor is then switched to the
right-eye view, and the lens of the shutter-glasses is
reversed. This switching occurs many times per second, fast
enough for your eyes not to notice it. Your brain fuses the
separate images together to create 3D. Yes, it’s just your
brains perception of what the image should look like. Pretty
neat how we can trick the brain, don’t you think?
