3D video gaming
From
Nightfox to
All on Thu Apr 7 21:37:34 2011
Recently I've been noticing that some PC video games are advertising support for 3D glasses. I remembered starting to see 3D glasses for PC games back around 1995 or so (I saw a demo of the PC game 'Descent' with 3D glasses at a software store around that time). Back then, there were a few video cards I had heard of that had an interface for 3D glasses, but that fad didn't seem to take off, and I hadn't heard much about 3D video gaming until the past year or two.. If people are into 3D gaming, does anyone know why the industry stopped developing 3D video game technoloy for so long? Why stop and then start developing it again years later?
Similarly, Hollywood has started to make a lot of 3D movies lately.. I remember hearing about 3D movies being viewed in the 1950s, but that stopped up until the past few years, with 3D movies making a comeback.
Why the gaps in 3D vdeo games and movies? Is it just that they were too expensive to develop initially? With video games, perhaps computers just weren't quite powerful enough initially?
Nightfox