3D stereoscopic Summary Story of a gamer. Nvidia, read it!
Having been in Disney World as a kid and watched the 3D Stereoscopic Star Wars Movie, I could not help myself always waiting for 3D Stereo for Computer games for years.
It never came, so I forgot about it. When I remembered again, I was able to buy a used gaming HUD with Motion Tracking for a few bucks. The effect was awesome! I played Mechwarrior for days using the Headtracker to turn the Mechs Head and aiming the targets much more accurate than with Mouse and/or/Joystick.
The bad thing was: the resolution was at about 300x200 Pixel (didn't even the C64 have that resolution?) so you could not play new games, because you couldn't read the writing on the screen beeing too small most of the time. Actual games already produced a resolution of 800x600 or even 1024x768. So when I told friends about it, they shook their heads: "I did not buy a gaming Computer for 5000DM to play at such stoneaged resolutions." was the answer.
Well, I had to agree. I sold that piece of hardware and waitet for higher resolutions. They didn't come. I mailed to some companies asking if the would release new versions of their HUDs. But they said there where no market.
No market? Are you kidding? I would have spent 2000 DM if the resolution was 1024x768 like that of my monitor (would have kicked that one out).
So again, there was no marketing research on what should be produced, and afterwards, what went wrong.
So I bought a Elsa revelator. The effect was poor compared with the HUD, where you could turn your head and had no ghosting. But it was fun. And since I tasted 3D I don't play any game without stereoscopic view (damn extremistic fool!).

For I while I did not have time to play at all (job).

Now I am back playing with my Revelator on my nose (hurts quite hard after a few hours, that hard plastic thing).

I surfed for HUDs beeing convinced they learned from their earlier flop and offer now perfect working stereoscopic HUDs at an effordable price. What did I see?
Resolutions of 800x600 Pixel. I laughed disbeliving what I read.
"Never seen 3D effect!" Hey folks, I enjoyed that effect over ten years ago!
And again no marketing research. The think it hat to be inexpensive to be bought. That is wrong! I and many of my gaming friends would pay 2000 Euro and more to get a Stereoscopic HUD with a resolution of 1600x1200 per eye. But we will not by one for 1000 Euro at a resolution beeing used 10 years ago. You are mistaken! Do your homework! There is a market. And, boy, the kids have lots of money to spend today. And if the product goes well, it will become affordable because of the quantities sold.
In which business you start to sell a product beeing of poor quality with the argument it will become better if sold mor often?
Lets try that with an example:
Mercedes brings out a new S-Class car. It has only 60 HP no airbags or ABS and looks like a trabbi. And they tell you they will built in better and more features, when the customers bought it so and so often.
Ridiculous!
In germany we say "Da wird kein Schuh draus!".

I have a nostradamic vein, which you are coerced to enyoy NOW:

The OLEDs (or some other technique) will evolve. Good gaming resolutions will be possible in HUDS at affordable prices. Someone like me, but with mor money will try to bring out an expensive, good quality HUD and he will see, that is sells not good, but so well he can develop better and more inexpensive HUDs. He will rule the market, because he was the only one selling high quality at an adequate price (which is always the way gaming equipment is sold). Gamers don't want low quality things even if they are cheap. Business men want that for their workers!
So he will rule the market. Soon he will recognize, that there is much more market, than he thought.
He will bring out glasses for special cubic Laptops beeing worn at your belt, both looking through and none-looking though ones. The first will be sold to people like the todays Earplug people on the street. The second for businessman beeing able to wear their 4-meter low power monitor in their pocket. Laughing at the ones balancing their conventional laptops on their knees.
There will be a new boom of Virtual Working in Medicine, 3D modeling and more.
Think about tank/helicopter/crane pilots beeing able to see all the way around through the metal parts outside.
Think about an 360 degree infrared view through fog in your car.
Think even of Remote controlled toy cars with a movable mini stereo camera on the drivers seat giving you the HUD-impression to sit in that car.
Remote controlled Robots with stereoscopic 360degree vision for the controller......

I could go on for hours....
And the one man doing business right will be what our Billy is in Software.
If NVidia was lucky, it will ride the wave on top not because they saw the signs and kept their 3D stereo drivers up to date, but simply because all other competitors had NOTHING! No Product, no drivers, no sense for new technologies.
If NVidia is unlucky, the "Billy of Stereoscopic View" will have that softwarepart for himself, too.
Oh man, he will be rich!
So you ask, why I don't do it?
I dont have the connections nor the money.
I don't even have the money to get a few of the possible patents.
Sad thing, I only had the vision fifteen years ago.......

But I can say then: look at the NVidia forum. It was my idea, I knew what would be possible in the future, I, the small nostradamus of Stereoscopic view TOLD YOU!


Bye,
Aksels
Having been in Disney World as a kid and watched the 3D Stereoscopic Star Wars Movie, I could not help myself always waiting for 3D Stereo for Computer games for years.

It never came, so I forgot about it. When I remembered again, I was able to buy a used gaming HUD with Motion Tracking for a few bucks. The effect was awesome! I played Mechwarrior for days using the Headtracker to turn the Mechs Head and aiming the targets much more accurate than with Mouse and/or/Joystick.

The bad thing was: the resolution was at about 300x200 Pixel (didn't even the C64 have that resolution?) so you could not play new games, because you couldn't read the writing on the screen beeing too small most of the time. Actual games already produced a resolution of 800x600 or even 1024x768. So when I told friends about it, they shook their heads: "I did not buy a gaming Computer for 5000DM to play at such stoneaged resolutions." was the answer.

Well, I had to agree. I sold that piece of hardware and waitet for higher resolutions. They didn't come. I mailed to some companies asking if the would release new versions of their HUDs. But they said there where no market.

No market? Are you kidding? I would have spent 2000 DM if the resolution was 1024x768 like that of my monitor (would have kicked that one out).

So again, there was no marketing research on what should be produced, and afterwards, what went wrong.

So I bought a Elsa revelator. The effect was poor compared with the HUD, where you could turn your head and had no ghosting. But it was fun. And since I tasted 3D I don't play any game without stereoscopic view (damn extremistic fool!).



For I while I did not have time to play at all (job).



Now I am back playing with my Revelator on my nose (hurts quite hard after a few hours, that hard plastic thing).



I surfed for HUDs beeing convinced they learned from their earlier flop and offer now perfect working stereoscopic HUDs at an effordable price. What did I see?

Resolutions of 800x600 Pixel. I laughed disbeliving what I read.

"Never seen 3D effect!" Hey folks, I enjoyed that effect over ten years ago!

And again no marketing research. The think it hat to be inexpensive to be bought. That is wrong! I and many of my gaming friends would pay 2000 Euro and more to get a Stereoscopic HUD with a resolution of 1600x1200 per eye. But we will not by one for 1000 Euro at a resolution beeing used 10 years ago. You are mistaken! Do your homework! There is a market. And, boy, the kids have lots of money to spend today. And if the product goes well, it will become affordable because of the quantities sold.

In which business you start to sell a product beeing of poor quality with the argument it will become better if sold mor often?

Lets try that with an example:

Mercedes brings out a new S-Class car. It has only 60 HP no airbags or ABS and looks like a trabbi. And they tell you they will built in better and more features, when the customers bought it so and so often.

Ridiculous!

In germany we say "Da wird kein Schuh draus!".



I have a nostradamic vein, which you are coerced to enyoy NOW:



The OLEDs (or some other technique) will evolve. Good gaming resolutions will be possible in HUDS at affordable prices. Someone like me, but with mor money will try to bring out an expensive, good quality HUD and he will see, that is sells not good, but so well he can develop better and more inexpensive HUDs. He will rule the market, because he was the only one selling high quality at an adequate price (which is always the way gaming equipment is sold). Gamers don't want low quality things even if they are cheap. Business men want that for their workers!

So he will rule the market. Soon he will recognize, that there is much more market, than he thought.

He will bring out glasses for special cubic Laptops beeing worn at your belt, both looking through and none-looking though ones. The first will be sold to people like the todays Earplug people on the street. The second for businessman beeing able to wear their 4-meter low power monitor in their pocket. Laughing at the ones balancing their conventional laptops on their knees.

There will be a new boom of Virtual Working in Medicine, 3D modeling and more.

Think about tank/helicopter/crane pilots beeing able to see all the way around through the metal parts outside.

Think about an 360 degree infrared view through fog in your car.

Think even of Remote controlled toy cars with a movable mini stereo camera on the drivers seat giving you the HUD-impression to sit in that car.

Remote controlled Robots with stereoscopic 360degree vision for the controller......



I could go on for hours....

And the one man doing business right will be what our Billy is in Software.

If NVidia was lucky, it will ride the wave on top not because they saw the signs and kept their 3D stereo drivers up to date, but simply because all other competitors had NOTHING! No Product, no drivers, no sense for new technologies.

If NVidia is unlucky, the "Billy of Stereoscopic View" will have that softwarepart for himself, too.

Oh man, he will be rich!

So you ask, why I don't do it?

I dont have the connections nor the money.

I don't even have the money to get a few of the possible patents.

Sad thing, I only had the vision fifteen years ago.......



But I can say then: look at the NVidia forum. It was my idea, I knew what would be possible in the future, I, the small nostradamus of Stereoscopic view TOLD YOU!





Bye,

Aksels

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