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Iv allways been thnking over getting some 3d glasses but the price and reviews have put me off UNTIL NOW!.

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I stumbled apon E-D 3D glasses and watched video review of them and the guy could'nt give them enough praise and said he'd never go back,so i look on google for reviews and every single 1 give them a top rating.
And here's the good bit £66.95 wireless or £46.95 with wire.
After seeing all these raving reviews im def going 2 get a pair:cool:
Here's the site (watch the video review)-
http://www.edimensional.com/reviews/index.htm


I'll let you know how exellent they are when i get them.


Jammydodger
 
I heard that your eyes melt out of your skull after a long period of use.
 
Originally posted by nw909
I heard that your eyes melt out of your skull after a long period of use.
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Scary....good find tho.
 
I didn't buy those, but I have tried shutterglasses.

they arn't bad, I could use them for hours on end...
I returned them though, because frankly, it wasn't worth the cash. for 20$ I'd buy them again though
 
Originally posted by A2597
I didn't buy those, but I have tried shutterglasses.

they arn't bad, I could use them for hours on end...
I returned them though, because frankly, it wasn't worth the cash. for 20$ I'd buy them again though
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Did your eyes melt out of your skull?
 
These are the best on the market just read the reviews on the site every 1 loves them.
And no your eyes dont melt iv looked into it.:cool:

Jammydodger
 
omg, i'm ordering a pair right now...

that video review clinched it :)

*feels like a small kid*
 
OMG! ... i didn't believe this when it first hit the stores. It got rave reviews everywhere. But now... damn. This is something i will have when the game comes out. In fact i might get them in time for Max Payne 2 and after that i will play all my games again. With the glasses WOHOOO!

*feels like a kid too*
 
Glad i can help,just a lil note they dont work with LCD screens only CRT monitors.

Jammydodger
 
yup. dedicated players use CRT monitors. at least with the current tech in LCD monitors.
 
Originally posted by pHATE1982
LCDs suck balls for games anyway...

All that blury shite
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My FPD isn't blury.

Actually I love it for games.
 
i have those glasses, got them about a year ago. definitely cool and worth the cash. i use them on fps games but they are incredible for driving/flying games. you get an actual sense of movement which is uncommon for videogames.
 
Do they actually work for radeon boardS?
I already have the erazor glasses but there's only nvidia support.
 
Supports the most popular display adapter chipsets with our patented new drivers:
-nVidia (all cards including GeForce 2, 3, 4, and FX)
-ATI Radeon (all cards including 7000, 8000 and 9000 series)
-ATI Rage (all cards)
-Kyro, Matrox, Intel and more.


Found here-
http://flyawaysimulation.com/article368.html

Ordered mine yesterday i'll let u know how the are when i get them.

Jammydodger
 
Originally posted by nw909
My FPD isn't blury.

Actually I love it for games.
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I remember when these type of glasses first came out they cost something like £999.

Remember back in the mid/early 90's the whole "virtual reality" thing with the huge headsets and rubbish graphics. I thought it was crap but on the TV they thought it was the best thing ever and it would revolutionise practically everything in the world.
 
Originally posted by Jammydodger
Ordered mine yesterday i'll let u know how the are when i get them.
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Cool, I'd really like to know how these turn out. I am obsessed with 3D stuff, I recently went to see that new Spy Kids film (yes I'm a big baby really) and the 3D bits were really smart, though that red/green stuff is a bit hard on the eyes.

I have looked into shutter glasses before but I was always concerned with refresh rates (ie. monitor typically must go twice as fast, ideally running at 120Hz - or else you get bad flicker) and game performance (having to render two slightly different scenes just as quickly). If these new glasses have overcome these problems I would love to read up on how they have done it... If anybody knows how this stuff works, or has a good link, then i'd be really interested to read about it.

Anyway, let us know how it goes...

EDIT: I meant to mention, good quality LCD screens are just as good looking as CRT screens these days (the main problem being the "native" resolution problem - which most people don't understand). My mate's LCD screen has a beautiful picture, much more colourful and vibrant than my 3 year-old CRT screen, and it is definitely not blurry. You should stop buying on the cheap ;)
 
matbe i should never have mentioned the blury thing :-P

It's just i remember playing DVD's and games on an LCD left a kind of blur as the LCD pixel colour changes couldn't quite keep up.

maybe that was just five years ago, ehem
 
Well after a little experimentation it appears my monitor can handle a whopping 140Hz at 8x6 (unexpected to say the least!) so that should give me a 70Hz average on these glasses things.

Bugger it I think I might buy some :)
 
Well I had them 2day and im not dissapointed, The call of duty demo looks exellent with them, and IL2 well all I can say is DING DONG!
Any 1 else had thier's yet?
Cant wait for HL2 with these little baby's


Jammydodger
 
I got a pair of those E-D glasses last Christmas, but you know what sucks? They didn't support my Radeon 9700. ;( eDimensional released custom drivers for it like 5 months later, but all it is is an opengl32.dll that you put in the game folders. That's good for my OpenGL games, like JKII, HL.... umm....

They might have come out with the Direct3D drivers they were promising, but their website doesn't really say.

Another thing I don't like is I already wear glasses, and it's annoying trying to keep both pairs of glasses on. :| Not really their fault, I guess.

My experience with the glasses has been pretty underwhelming, but they DO look cool. Your mileage may vary...
 
Originally posted by Jammydodger
Cant wait for HL2 with these little baby's
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Do you have a Radeon?

I ask because the NVIDEA stereo drivers don't support pixel shaders (I have read this somewhere), as used in HL2. Could be fixed by now I guess. Also I am thinking about getting a Radeon so I was wondering how well the drivers work for it.

Still waiting on mine arriving ...
 
WOW!!! These things are f*cking amazing.

So here is my review for anyone who cares ...

I played Half Life (the original) with them on, and Oh My God i will never play again without them! I spent the first few minutes standing on the introduction train watching everything trundle past in absolute total awe. They really do bring the world to life.

BUT, and its a bigee... they are a major pain in the arse! The main problem with them is lack of official support from anything. Some of my games exhibit strange problems (GTA at night for example, the lights on the cars sit at the front of the screen - it really screws with your head). Also, there is a very noticible ghosting effect which would probably "melt your eyes out of your head" after a while lol.

So, for NVIDEA owners ...

1) Make sure you don't have "plug and play" monitor. Baffled by why I couldn't set anything higher than 85Hz (despite knowing that it works) I boogied on over to the Belinea site and found I had to install a monitor driver! Finally, my sliders go up to 140!

2) You absolutely MUST get that fix that Jammy posted earlier, otherwise the games all run in 60Hz regardless of what you select.

3) Anti-aliasing must be turned OFF (even though you have the "override antialiasing to off" option selected in the stereo section - you must actually disable anti-aliasing in the normal place).

4 EDIT) Must choose "enable by hotkey" option (setting "always enable" blue-screened my Win2K when I fired up HL)

And alas, Half Life runs in a beautiful 100Hz 1024x768 stereo... and its gorgeous!

My eyes have been opened! ... and I hope 3D screens can become the norm (eg. www.dti3d.com) so that we don't need these stupid glasses, and ALL games will support it because it is a standard.
 
I got theses glasses a while ago, and they're really great. The only catch I can think of is that it lowers framerates a lot. If you have a relatively fast card you'll be fine, but I have a pretty old card and I get bad FPS on some of the newer games.
 
Yeah I done a test with 3d mark 2003 here are the results.
Normal without the glasses- score- 1511
with the glasses- score- 530

As u can see there's a big drop in the score, so if uv got a low end system i would reconsider getting them.

My system handle's the games ok I tryed unreal 2003 and i didnt notice any slowdown.
Here's my spec.

athlon 1400
asus geforce 4200 Ti 128mb
768mb 3200 cosair ram
Epox 8k9a2+ motherboard
60 gig harddrive
17" monitor


Jammydodger
 
Guys, dont bother with these glasses for ATI cards.
I have a R9700 Pro and bought the EDI glasses and got their 3.0 beta drivers with OpenGl and DX support.
I only got a couple of game to work.. and those that did work did not work well. Everything in 3d is so jagged you have to enable antialiasing to smooth it out. Then on top of that, the 3d effect is no way near as great as on an NVIDIA card (I borrowed a GF4ti for a week from a friend to compare effects). NVIDIA is less hassle and better effect.

Keep an eye on ebay I will be selling both pair of wireless glasses in a few days because I am not going to give up my R9700 pro (which I paid $130 for ;) can't beat that deal) just to play games in 3d.

But for those wondering, yes these glasses work and the effect can be quite impressive. Especially for racing game and flight simulators. First person shooters can be kind of tricky because the crosshair for your gun is usually a 2d sprite thus you will end up with 2 crosshairs in game and you fire your weapon the hit regisiters between them. NVIDIA provides 'lasersight' for most games, and if you can turn off your 2d crosshair in game and use the lasersight then you are in luck.

Tomb Raider games are awesome in 3d and Alice is wicked as well.
 
DON'T BUY THEM! This is all an elaborate and clever scheme for tracking you and spying on your person. The Glasses are for tracking and transmitting your brain waves and eye movements to spies that monitor every human that has these. They use the data for analysis. Now they have found a way to spy on your habits even when you take them off.

It tracks your movements in that area so they can see what products you have in your house and what products you buy. The gaming companies are in it as well. They get their money from organizations that put commercials in their product that you don't even notice, millisecond commercials in direct X. And then the glasses transmits your eye movements and brain waves, and the Ir head tracker tracks if you go to your refrigerator after a certain millisecond commercial, and see what you have to drink. And transmits the data to these companies!

The government and the CIA is involved too, for better to analyze how they are going to create weapons and gear for soldiers.

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Do the glasses cut your set resolution in half as well? I'd imagine they would have to to get two seperate images. I think I'll avoid them if they cut the res in half and lower your framerate. I'm a framerate nut.

LCD monitors stink for fast paced FPS's, even the newer 16ms fall off monitors. I tried out the new Hercules gaming LCD, which is the highest rated LCD out there, and it still has noticable ghosting. LCD's still have a long way to go in my opinion.

I think OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) monitors are the future, the fall off rate is comparable to CRTs and they're much brighter than LCD's. They can even be seen in direct sunlight.
 
I like the sound of that 3D screen stuff they've been talking about recently. No glasses required.:E
 
Originally posted by Brian Damage
I like the sound of that 3D screen stuff they've been talking about recently. No glasses required.:E
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Yeah but...

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Originally posted by jasonh1234
Yeah but...

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Well, I heard they won't cost too much more, as they're mostly an update of LCD screen technology. Basically LCDs with embedded opaque vertical striping in the screen.
 
Originally posted by Brian Damage
Well, I heard they won't cost too much more, as they're mostly an update of LCD screen technology. Basically LCDs with embedded opaque vertical striping in the screen.
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I was looking at them today. I saw prices like $4000 USD for a 21"
 
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