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Faxanadu on 21 July 2010

ah ok, got it now. Then it should be a problem, since shared audio was never a problem with split screen



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AbbathTheGrim on 21 July 2010

Split-screen multi > Online



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

disolitude on 21 July 2010
AbbathTheGrim said:

Split-screen coop > Online

2 consoles 2 TVs 2 game copies coop > split screen in my house :)

Online is a lot more convenient though than any split screen. Once you join the 9 to 5 working world, its hard to go to your friends place regularly for some Halo...



d21lewis on 21 July 2010

So what are you saying?  That I can watch porn when everybody else thinks that I'm looking at CNN?  Looks like it's time to make a trip to Best Buy.



disolitude on 21 July 2010
d21lewis said:

So what are you saying?  That I can watch porn when everybody else thinks that I'm looking at CNN?  Looks like it's time to make a trip to Best Buy.


Everyone else will think you are messed up and touching yourself to CNN. I think thats worse than porn...



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Jirakon on 21 July 2010

Wait...what? How do the glasses know which player is which? Or does each player just close a different eye? It seems like these glasses will have to be separate from the ones that come with the TV's.



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Faxanadu on 21 July 2010
disolitude said:
d21lewis said:

So what are you saying?  That I can watch porn when everybody else thinks that I'm looking at CNN?  Looks like it's time to make a trip to Best Buy.


Everyone else will think you are messed up and touching yourself to CNN. I think thats worse than porn...


Why watch porn when you can watch CNN?



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disolitude on 21 July 2010
Jirakon said:

Wait...what? How do the glasses know which player is which? Or does each player just close a different eye? It seems like these glasses will have to be separate from the ones that come with the TV's.

Glasses shutter according to the emiter inside the TV which syncs with the 3D movie/game or whatever.

For this application:

Playstation 3 tells TV emiter --> Close both lenses for player 1 now, close both lenses for player 2 now...and does this 60 times per second (or is it 120 times...to tired to think about it)

TV emiter relays this to shutter glasses.

Done.



Alby_da_Wolf on 21 July 2010
Faxanadu said:

ah ok, got it now. Then it should be a problem, since shared audio was never a problem with split screen


Earphones, as I wrote in some post, should do whenever shared audio isn't viable,  but it's quite obvious, you can shut viewer's glasses alternatively, but you can't shut their ears (even if feasible, it would produce a pulsed sound at an audible frequency, so it would be an annoying noise, maybe selective audio shutting could be done with destructive interference, but it would require earphones or another audio source for each different viewer anyway, plus dedicated circuitry, so it would just add costs, simply trasmitting different audio to different earphones is the simplest solution).



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d21lewis on 21 July 2010

Screw video games.  If we can use this technology so that I can watch something I recorded on my DVR while my girl watches Lifetime, I'm sold!!