I just played Motorstorm 2 3D

[MikeB]

I'm going to wait with getting a 3DTV for a couple of years myself.

But I think this pioneering by Sony on the PS3 is important for the future. First I am going to get Playstation Move and I think 3D can help a lot to help with realism for this type of gaming in the future.

For example playing Ping Pong where the ball goes towards you, stereoscopic 3D can help a lot to make this feel far more realistic. Or for example in one of the demos they showed a demo where you pile up parts in a 3D space, stereoscopic 3D can help a lot with depth perception for a similar puzzle game to better understand the depth.

Eventually I hope this tech will get gaming and multi-media (on PS3 or PS4) back to a level I envisioned as pioneered on Amigas.

Pioneering using the Amiga for virtual reality gaming (including head/hand motion tracking, stereoscopic 3D, first person gaming including capture the flag / deathmatch, networked multi-player and built-in microphone, etc) (this all at a time before even the very limited Wolfenstein existed, which is often wrongly put forward as a pioneering title):

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=103674

An article from 1991:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/commercial/WIndustries/W.descrip

Some snips:

"Technology has also become available to provide input to the sense of touch, through pneumatic tactile gloves and force-feedback techniques (eg. the steering wheel on a driving simulator)."

"A stereoscopic view of the room was also possible by wearing a head-
mounted visor with a rotating shutter, a separate image being
presented to each eye on alternate frames of the video image."

"Looking at the joy-stick through the visor it appears as a gun. Extending one's arm shows a virtual arm rendered in bright pink polygons."

Imagine having to turn your head to look outside your side window in a future Gran Turismo to see the cars driving next to you from inside your car. Imagine sitting in a virtual cinema and watching a Blu-Ray movie on a huge screen with your friend's virtual avatars sitting beside you and sharing thoughts, etc, etc. 8-)