AWESOME-NOW ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS ME THE GLASSES WIRELESS

"we don't like cheaters" *grim look*

I'm sure it's just polarization glasses. When your frame isn't on the screen your glasses are blacked out. The frames would just alternate per user and the glasses would be sent a signal to show or hide the image based on if it's "your turn" or not. This sort of thing has been done for a long time with the "stereo 3d" glasses, but just eye to eye instead of player to player.

Main problems as I see it are: If your TV has a framerate of 30FPS, you only look at 15fps. What about 3 or 4 players? 7.5fps? Granted most TVs have a higher rate than this, but a lot of the older SDTVs do not.

that looks like the same technology they're using to make stereo vision games. They're using the Samsung 1080p led engine DLP there, and one thing that sets it apart is that it produces a 120hz image, thus allowing it to alternate different images at 60hz. The same glasses were used to flicker either eye alternately to coincide with alternating images on the TV to produce a stereoscopic effect.

Both technologies are very interesting. I'd like to see them developed further.

@Hickeroar: Main problems as I see it are: If your TV has a framerate of 30FPS, you only look at 15fps. What about 3 or 4 players? 7.5fps? Granted most TVs have a higher rate than this, but a lot of the older SDTVs do not.

Right-like I said, this TV produces a 120hz image which can be equated to 120 fps. This allows 2 alternating images to be displayed at 60fps which is virtually lossless as far as human eyes are concerned.

work with any game system? i am seriously leaning towards dlp anyway, but it'd be nice to know if this will work with tennis (or whatever) on the wii.

@Hickeroar: @moonphrogg: i am not 100% sure, but i think dlp is actually 300hz...double-checking, i'll post back.

If it's implemented at the TV, then this could work for any two sources, not just multiplayer games.

e.g. You can watch porn while your wife watches the latest Hugh Grant movie.

It uses a 3D monitor. As some of you know a 3D video is produced by using 2 slighty different images/video sources, one for the right eye and one for the left eye. Normal 3D glass separate the images allow your eye only the image that was meant for it. Well with this rather then 2 slighty different images there are completly different images one with the info on player 1 and the second one with the info for player 2. Glasses separate the images, allowing you only to see your screen. basically now you have glasse that are both left lenes leting you only see one images. the glass they are showing are cool cause it looks like it can switch the filter as to which image you can see. hopefully we will see more 3D monitors coming to the market

"With a DLP® HDTV, motion blur is out of the picture. That's because DLP® technology is incredibly fast, with an eight-microsecond response time - up to 1,000 times faster than other HDTV technologies - and a refresh rate of up to 300hz."
from [www.dlp.com]
i remember that being one of the reasons dlp caught my eye, because i read (before it was released) that the ps3 was supposed to have dual 1080p at 120hz output, and i thought nothing could handle that, until i read about dlp.

This is an interesting concept, and it really doesn't seem to need any novel hardware. There's a used computer shop around here that has a bin full of those stereoscopic glasses that other commenters have mentioned. I imagine it would not be too difficult to make the lenses flash in-sync, rather than alternating, and use a second pair of glasses similarly synced to the alternate signal. At that point it's a matter of modifying the software which, while not easy, is much simpler than adding 3-D functionality.

I've been considering picking up a few pair of those glasses. Maybe this will be a good enough excuse to go spend the $20 or so on them, just to have a look.

OMG I own that same tv (Samsung LED DLP) I really hope this becomes availible because this is really cool and it would actually put the 3D ability of the tv to good use (there is not a whole lot of 3D content out there!)

@EMoShunz: I can highly recommend this TV. I own it myself - the picture is beautiful and the performance is unrivaled. Plus, it's one of the more affordable options out there. The only con that you'll run in to is viewing angle. If you're relatively tall and you set the TV close to the ground, you'll notice the image darkening towards the top when you stand up to play wii tennis (or bowling or any other wii sport for that matter).

Additionally, this TV, being LED engine DLP, is brighter than most DLPs, has a much longer bulb life and eliminates the "rainbow effect." Even better, it has a port for communicating with a media center pc for 3d playback aided by the very same stereoscopic glasses that are discussed in this thread.

Check it out:
[www.amazon.com]

I've had the set since July, been looking for the glasses since then. So far nobody at Samsung has been able to help. they were supposed to come out in September, never happened.

Now pair this technology up with the 3D window wiimote hack ([gizmodo.com]) and two people can watch TV or play games in 3D.

And maybe in the future with crazy high refresh rates on TVs, an entire family can wear dorky glasses on their heads, each synced to their own feed on the set, and all can enjoy 3D TV together.

@moonphrogg: Problem being that the system has to be able to maintain a 120 fps rate in order to produce 2 60fps images. I doesn't matter the speed of the monitor if the actual system hardware doesn't run that fast.

Thats about as advanced as the Sega Master System 3d glasses. Still cool. Now they just have to make the glasses that let you watch porn at work while everyone else just sees excel spreadsheets on the screen. Thats I'd pay for.

Crazy. I had an idea that worked exactly like this when I was staring at those 3D glasses they gave me for Beowulf. "If they can filter out which eye sees which picture, why not have it so that it filters which picture each player sees based on their glasses?"

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I could be wrong, but isn't DLP the type of projector that the new movie theaters are using? Does that mean we could potentially play on a 40' screen? Just thinking (and drooling).

Does this work on any DLP television? I have a DLP that I love to use for gaming because of the fast response time and because it's immune to burn in. I think with this dual screen feature I might finally be able to beat my little brother in halo :-/

@Bookworm: Your tv has to have an output on it that syncs the 3D/DuelView glasses (which the tv they use has) Very few tv's have this, i think the only companies that make DLP's with the 3D sync is Samsung and Mitsubishi (i might be wrong...)