Right, that's why the glasses suck-- you pretty much have to have them and it just plain sucks having to have them.  They get smudged easily, they're annoying to wear because they're those terrible unisex glasses, sucks even more to wear them ontop of glasses, and you have to have a pair for every possible person that might watch. 

When I'm watching TV by myself, I'm actually usually slightly left, when I'm watching TV with my wife, I'm always on the left and she's on the right.  The only time I'm ever in the middle of my couch is when I'm playing a game and even that's not 100%.

I've had as many as eight people crammed into my living rooms to watch movies, does that mean I need eight pairs of glasses?

Again, that's where Nintendo is doing things right-- you don't need the glasses.  Ever.

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Also note that I think that the 3DS is the end all of 3D gaming.  I haven't even seen it yet to know how good it is and I'm still not convinced 3D is the next big thing.  If Nintendo succeeds then I think handheld 3D may be a hit and if head tracking actually works that might be cool, but as far as I'm concerned anything having to do with wearing the glasses is a giant fail and the complete wrong direction.

yeah but NINTENDO isn't giving you action on a 70' screen but a tiny one

i think the smudges can be taken care off.

the glasses let you see the 3D action at different angles too,its just without glasses it tough

nobody likes them but for the next 2 years we will have to make do with these

and yeah those unisex glasses are annoying but you don't have to wear those outside

i have seen SONY and Panasonics 3D glasses and they are fine,they are like those sports glasses.

i highly doubt 8 people can seat at the same position right in front of a 3D-TV where you don't need to wear glasses. you seem to forget you have to seat exactlly rigt in front, not to far, not to near, not to much on the left or on the right side of the TV because it will get blury the same maner as if you dont wear glasses in a 3D cinamax/imax.
i don't get it why some people have problems with wearing 3D glasses?!? it's nearlly the same as sun glasses. by the way, if you are watching a movie, you're looking at the screen & not how others look like with glasses.

yeah i hate glasses too

even the sun glasses people wear all the time just to look 'COOL'

kudo tsunoda with those sunglasses looks so stupid all the time,i don't believe he wore it onstage at E3

anyways i have tested Panasonic's 3d glasses and they are very gripy sports like,like them

"its the same as wearing sun glasses" - as we hate that too

 and the fact that glasses are on ur head u never relax and the uncomfortable thing keeps bugging me

It's like you're saying consoles are automatically better than handhelds because they're on a bigger screen which is just...wrong.

Yes, consoles work on larger screens but that's kind of a moot point.  When the draw is 3D and that draw is just plain inconvenient, it's a fail.

i think it's more a mind thing you don't like to wear glasses & that's why you can't relax. if you don't give much attention to it, maybe you could forget you're wearing some.

I actually know little about 3D TV's but you're definately not helping the 3D cause with your first paragraph.

Are you saying you have to sit directly in front (or close to in front) for it to even work?  If so, that's an even bigger fail since you're likely never to get more than 3 people in a standard living room.  Even then, it's three people crammed on a single couch.

And I don't care what I look like in the glasses, they just aren't comfortable.  I guess I could buy some designer ones for a couple hundred dollars but I have no desire to be that large of a tool.

@ twesterm
i was talking about 3D-TV where you don't need glasses. i saw that few weeks ago on a TV show where they test all kind of technical stuff. the best 3D TVs were the one where you need active shutter glasses.

PC 3D was at 1080p tech in 2009. Now the PC cutting edge is 3 screen surround at 1080p each...

So I don't know what console "next gen" will be doing...but they surely won't be cutting edge if they do 1080p 3D. :)