I was just looking at another post where someone pointed out that in a
racing sim you don't get the stereoscopic view you have in real life and
that a speedometer helps compensate for the lack of depth perception in your
views in the game.
I used to have a Canopus Total 3D that came with LCD Stereoscopic Glasses
that you wore when playing games such as Descent II and then you got the
real 3D effect. I can only say that NOTHING before or since has so
impressed me in computer graphics. For the price, it was awesome and the
game was rewritten to take advantage of the glasses with what appeared to be
little change on the outside anyhow.
Funny it never caught on. It was really neat in Descent. It would be
really functional in GPL/N3/....
Phil.
Phil,
I still have a Canopus Total 3D with LCD Stereoscopic Glasses. It's a rendition
card which I still have installed in my lesser PC as the primary 2D card working
with a Monster 3DII voodoo2 card.
I can't agree with you more on the realistic 3D effect the Total 3D and LCD
glasses gave me with the 2 games that came with the package (Descent II and
Whiplash). As you indicated, both games came patched for the LCD Stereoscopic
glasses. Descent II was just plain scary (in a good way), and Whiplash was a
blast! Unfortunately, my PC at the time didn't have the horsepower to run the
games as well as I would have liked, and Nascar Racing took me away from the two
titles. Your post has given me a renewed interest in trying out the glasses
again... I just hope I can find them!
Anyone know of any other titles (mainly racing) that supports/supported
Rendition and the LCD Sterioscopic glasses?
Dave
