Indifference is the strongest emotion of our era.

Because I don't recall Motorstorm 2 being widely panned for having a substantial visual downgrade over Motorstorm 1 (which I have played a bit at Instore displays)

I completely agree with you there. Games that are designed with 3D in mind would certainly tackle things differently, not to mention earlier efforts might just not do it very well. However, my concern is that what prevented 3D from being a worthwhile addition in Motorstorm 2 will do the same for other games because the nature of videogames is much different than movies.

The primary use of 3D in movies so far (oh lets be honest, the only reason) is to have crap fly out at you causing you to say "wow that's cool" There was a scene in Avatar where I wasn't even paying attention to the dialogue because an open door was sticking out so far I thought it might hit me in the face. I loved that door.

But videogames work a little differently. Since you're controlling the action on screen, you're usually controlling a protagonist of some sort. Be it a first or third person perspective, the action takes place from the perspective of the television screen. If something is flying out from the screen at you, it's position in 3d space is past that of the protagonist. Sure we can still get explosions and flying stuff that jumps off the screen at us, but I imagine that the implementation for anything more than superfluous debri will be very limited. I guess we could have the protagonist itself be what appears to float in the middle of the room, but given the not quite perfected tech, having the whole play time focus around a jumped out object would probably be a lot worse for your eyes than the Virtual Boy ever was.

I wish it the best, but... hey wait a sec... a New Myst type game with beautiful 3d worlds and inventive 3d puzzles could actually be really cool. hm...

Actually myst sounds like the perfect game for 3d. But I wont ever support 3d in the home (and in the cinema, I still choose to see most movies in 2d) until I don't need glasses. I already wear glasses and having two glasses on not only is uncomfortable but actually really hurts my eyes.

After Avatar my eyes felt like I imagine an addict would feel after spending a night stealing shit for their addiction and getting no sleep.

Do you have any pics of the car babes?

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-)

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No I don't. Didn't bring the camera, but judging by the hundreds of middle aged men with SLR's and huge lenses. You can probably find a lot of pics on the internet. Yes they're incredibly hot, but stare at their faces for too long and it starts to weird you out. I really hate that the country with the most attractive women in the world also has an obsession with cutting up their faces to look like aliens.

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well stof, I'd advise on trying out PC games in 3D to see what it can bring to gaming when done properly. Batman is supposed to be great (and designed with it in mind
Or go see Avatar (or an other 3D designed movie... not the 2D->3D ones).

To me 3D gaming offers just about as much as HD does... not much but a little sparkle... but why not have it?