Beware of fake 3-D

[P3D 3-D STUFF <3dstereo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had it up to here(I am currently reaching as high as I can)!

In all of the many trade magazines I read in regards to computers, and
animation, and video, I keep seeing the same kind of review for the same
piece of crap rip off of 3-D.  Watch out, it may be hitting the stores soon.

The articles all start out like this:

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3-D is now possible without (often they will say something like silly, or
stupid old) glasses.  Then they go on to explain how amazing the depth is
when viewing the 3D images with this special new process.  All you need is
special software, and a simple device that clips onto the front of your
monitor or TV!  The device is expected to sell for about $80.  It is unlike
any 3-D viewing device on the market, it uses no glasses, just a series of
mirrors in the device placed infront of your TV.
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I have personaly seen the device, and it is junk!  All it does is reflect
the bottom half of your screen image infront of the top half.  The special
software just splits your screen so that you will have 2 different images
one on the top half, and one on the bottom half.  Not a left and right eye,
because both images are seen by both eyes.  You get one image that floats a
few inches off of your screen, and one that is at the screen's surface.  I
spoke to the "device's" creator, and asked if it would be possible to
actually use stereo images with it, and he said, "Nope, it is not really
stereo, it is just one image on one layer, and one on the other, there is no
seperate image for each eye."  I didn't bother asking him why he was making
claims of it providing "amazing 3-D images".  It is obvious that without
tricking the public into thinking that it is 3-D no one would care.  The
real adds for it should read, "New snap on device will block the bottom half
of your screen giving you a letter box effect on the top half, and enjoy
having a second image a few inches infront of your screen.  Not glasses are
needed, since you will be snapping on a huge device made of mirrors to the
front of your TV".

I guess that using a Red button to view my Realist format slides is also 3-D
with out glasses.  It just gets me so upset that this fake 3-D gets a lot of
press, and yet when there is real 3-D coming out, the media barely cares, if
it uses glasses.  I think that 3Discover should start puting together and
add campain stating that they don't use silly glasses iether!  At least they
are really 3-D.


Lincoln Kamm
Maker of 3-D STUFF
http://www.concentric.net/~3dstereo


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