Do you ever remember the old three dimensional movies of decades ago? Those movies had some poor three dimensional effects, but they were still fun to watch. To create the on-screen action show up in 3D, you needed to wear red and blue 3D glasses. In older times, this was pretty cool. This day and age, there are many better ways of creating games and films appear to be real 3D. Because of three dimensional movies such as Avatar from James Cameron, this brand new hype is gaining momentum. The consumer includes a sought after demand for three dimensional in their own house. The industry has reacted to the demand by giving the supply.

These days, there are high-definition televisions. Loads of modern television models now come with three dimensional functionality. To look at movies in 3D, you will always need to wear appropriate glasses. Many of these televisions derive from active 3 dimensional shutter glasses. Other styles are based upon passive three-dimensional glasses.

Time will only tell what one of these technologies becomes the dominant one. We're going to end up being happy with the 3d images systems we have today, until one wins the battle. But 3D doesn't need to be restricted to just movies, given it can also be used in games. Of course, games have been three-dimensional for quite a while already. The main problem is usually that the three-dimensional environment is projected on a 2 dimensional monitor screen.

Due to technological progress, graphics cards are beginning to start to be really powerful. Calculating a couple of images while keeping up a great frame rate, is beginning to be feasible. The 3D graphics card's computed images can be shown by a 3 dimensional monitor. Comparible with the movies, you'd still have to wear three dimensional glasses in order to create the effects stand out. What I would like to see in the future is a pair of three-dimensional gaming glasses that are able to put the images right on your retina. A pair of glasses of this nature will truly place you in the middle of the action. Game world immersion will undoubtedly be unlike anything the world population has ever seen.

But before we develop such a technology, we have to make due with what we've got today. a 3D gaming kit was introduced by NVidia earlier. This kit was released with active shutter glasses. Only 1 eye at a time are able to see the image, simply because the glasses will shut alternating. A three dimensional effect would arise, if a computer game were to showcase images for the left and right eye alternating. The thing is that your graphics card needs to compute twice the frames. You could suffer from low frame rates. Also, you will still have to buy a compatible monitor yourself. So it can be quite expensive. However, the technology will end up a lot cheaper as time goes on, as it always does!