3d glasses review on simracingworld

Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the league??? jm

Just ordered a set. Thanks for the tip! Gavel "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > league??? > > jm

"James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > league??? > > jm

As an aside, I was contacted by edimensional about running an advertising campaign on RSC in association with publishing a review of these glasses. They offered a 10% referral fee for anyone who bought a set of glasses via a link from our website. We decided not to reply to the e-mail since we only publish reviews for items which the reviewer actually owns. Cheers Phil --- Racesim Central Administrator http://www.racesimcentral.com

I bought the wired version :) Thanks for the tip "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > league??? > > jm

I had a pair of Asus stereo glasses (similar in design to eDimensional). They are a fun novelty at first but that soon wears as they become a pain on the eyes over time and some games don't work with them too well, ie. GP3. "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > league??? > > jm

"Strider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I had a pair of Asus stereo glasses (similar in design to eDimensional). > They are a fun novelty at first but that soon wears as they become a painon > the eyes over time and some games don't work with them too well, ie. GP3. same here, they are bulky feeling and really not realistic.

"Phil Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<aartep$d7tsi$[email hidden]>...

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> "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > > league??? > > > > jm > > As an aside, I was contacted by edimensional about running an advertising > campaign on RSC in association with publishing a review of these glasses. > They offered a 10% referral fee for anyone who bought a set of glasses via a > link from our website. We decided not to reply to the e-mail since we only > publish reviews for items which the reviewer actually owns. > > Cheers > > Phil > --- > Racesim Central Administrator > http://www.racesimcentral.com

Well Paul does own a pair...he wrote the review based on his own experience and I emailed him before I went ahead with the purchase (I just bought the wireless) and he told me they asked him to review it as well, and sent him a pair to try for himself. Are you sure that edimensional wasn't offering you the chance to review the glasses (=free pair for you?)

Thought I'd reply to this here :) These glasses are very different to past models by ELSA etc, and in my experience are much better. There is no longer any flicker. As for a 10% commission on every one sold, that is correct, eDimensional contacted me and offered this as an incentive to get a review posted (reviews do actually take a long time to plan, write, check, re-check, post, and check another couple of times!). However, our review was NOT ever "biased" because of this incentive, as we operate on a "fair and balanced" review policy - Thought i'd just clear that up, and if you get yourselves a pair i'm sure you'd agree with my review. Thanks (my first post on R.A.S in a long time!) -- ------ Paul Tomlinson (mailto:[email hidden]) SimRacingWorld Network - http://www.simracingworld.com MSN - [email hidden] "Annes Notrya" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:TmjA8.20489$[email hidden]... > > "Strider" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > I had a pair of Asus stereo glasses (similar in design to eDimensional). > > They are a fun novelty at first but that soon wears as they become a pain > on > > the eyes over time and some games don't work with them too well, ie. GP3. > > same here, they are bulky feeling and really not realistic. > >

"Paul Tomlinson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aauu6k$9dh$[email hidden]... > Thought I'd reply to this here :) > These glasses are very different to past models by ELSA etc, and in my > experience are much better. There is no longer any flicker. I didn't have a problem with flickering on my Asus glasses either, just set refresh rate to 120hz and it was fine. I found anything on screen that was in 2D was hard to read though and hurt the eyes. For example, the cockpit in N2002 will look 3D but all the guages will look slightly doubled and hard to read, also everything in 2D onscreen feels really close to your eyes while the 3D looks fine. This has the effect of making you try to focus on two planes at once. That hurts the eyes too. They are fun for a while but they are not good for long hours of gaming, IMO.

> I didn't have a problem with flickering on my Asus glasses either, justset > refresh rate to 120hz and it was fine. I found anything on screen that was > in 2D was hard to read though and hurt the eyes. For example, the cockpitin > N2002 will look 3D but all the guages will look slightly doubled and hardto > read, also everything in 2D onscreen feels really close to your eyes while > the 3D looks fine. This has the effect of making you try to focus on two > planes at once. That hurts the eyes too. They are fun for a while but they > are not good for long hours of gaming, IMO. That sounds exactly like my experience with the ASUS glasses - maybe these newer ones are better. I can't really see them working well unless the software is designed with them in mind.

I've had no problems reading 2D text in any game with these new glasses at all. I think this is probably due to the fact the drivers for them (now excellent drivers from Nvidia (although there are Wicked3D drivers as well) seem to have this old problem sorted. I'll see if I can find a demo of Nascar 2002 and see what it's like :) -- ------ Paul Tomlinson (mailto:[email hidden]) SimRacingWorld Network - http://www.simracingworld.com MSN - [email hidden] "Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aavtdb$duici$[email hidden]... > > I didn't have a problem with flickering on my Asus glasses either, just > set > > refresh rate to 120hz and it was fine. I found anything on screen that was > > in 2D was hard to read though and hurt the eyes. For example, the cockpit > in > > N2002 will look 3D but all the guages will look slightly doubled and hard > to > > read, also everything in 2D onscreen feels really close to your eyes while > > the 3D looks fine. This has the effect of making you try to focus on two > > planes at once. That hurts the eyes too. They are fun for a while but they > > are not good for long hours of gaming, IMO. > > That sounds exactly like my experience with the ASUS glasses - maybe these > newer ones are better. I can't really see them working well unless the > software is designed with them in mind. > >

"Damien Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aavtdb$duici$[email hidden]... > That sounds exactly like my experience with the ASUS glasses - maybe these > newer ones are better. I can't really see them working well unless the > software is designed with them in mind. Well, they all work on the same principal so just how much better can they be? I think it's the drivers that make the difference, I used Elsa's generic drivers on the Asus glasses for a while and found I got much better OSD control with their drivers and coul fine tune it better, but that never helped the 2D stuff much. As you say, the games must be desinged with the glasses in mind, anything that is completely 3D (including text) works quite well.

OK . So i've checked all the comparisons of brands and the eDimension's seem to be winning everyone over. And most people seem to like the idea of wireless (makes sense) too. But how different are the wired and wireless. What powers the wireless (AAs ,watch batt. ??). Which are more comfortable? I wear prescription glasses is why so many questions. Thanks Mike "Ed Medlin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3cd2a3d4@cluster5.... > I have both the wired and wireless sets (I did a review some time ago for > them on a flightsim site). They were really great for awhile, but got abit

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> old. I started getting headaches if I used them for long. You also should > have a monitor that will run at least at 120hz refresh at your desired > resolution since the signal is split and running at half the refresh for > each eye. This is probably the reason for my headaches. My new 19" Samsung > will only do 100hz at my favorite resolutions. They work just fine, but I > can do without the headaches. My younger cousin just loves them.........So > that is where they are. > > Ed > > "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > > league??? > > > > jm > >

I have the wired version and I wear glasses. They fit over the top of them comfortably. Wires might have a tendency to break or get caught in something. I probably should have done wireless. Gavel Mike Pusateri <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > OK . So i've checked all the comparisons of brands and the eDimension's > seem to be winning everyone over. > And most people seem to like the idea of wireless (makes sense) too. > But how different are the wired and wireless. > What powers the wireless (AAs ,watch batt. ??). > Which are more comfortable? > I wear prescription glasses is why so many questions. > Thanks > Mike > > > > "Ed Medlin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3cd2a3d4@cluster5.... > > I have both the wired and wireless sets (I did a review some time ago

for > > them on a flightsim site). They were really great for awhile, but got a > bit > > old. I started getting headaches if I used them for long. You alsoshould > > have a monitor that will run at least at 120hz refresh at your desired > > resolution since the signal is split and running at half the refresh for > > each eye. This is probably the reason for my headaches. My new 19"Samsung > > will only do 100hz at my favorite resolutions. They work just fine, butI > > can do without the headaches. My younger cousin just lovesthem.........So

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> > that is where they are. > > > > Ed > > > > "James Montgomery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > Did everybody see the new review on www.simracingworld.com for the > > > edimensional 3d glasses? I'm thinking about gettin me a pair. They > > > sure sound interesting. If it adds real depth, it should help going > > > into a turn to see the line and gauge passing distances better. > > > anybody else try them and care to share before i order a set? > > > otherwise, i'll come back and post when i get them. the wife might > > > kill me, but gosh darnit, what's more important, the wife or the > > > league??? > > > > > > jm > > > > > >

"Mike Pusateri" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> OK . So i've checked all the comparisons of brands and the eDimension's > seem to be winning everyone over. > And most people seem to like the idea of wireless (makes sense) too. > But how different are the wired and wireless. > What powers the wireless (AAs ,watch batt. ??). > Which are more comfortable? > I wear prescription glasses is why so many questions. > Thanks > Mike > >

They use standard lithium watch batteries, which you can find in any convenience store for a couple bucks. As far as I know, the wired and wireless work exactly the same, you just don't have the cord running from the glasses to your PC. I have enough cords already so i opted for the wireless and they fit perfectly comfortably over my regular eyeglasses. They look about the same in the pictures, so I would think the wired and wireless fit the same.