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    You guys know I'm talking from experience and my opinion is still the same: proper high resolution 2D displays beat the pants off "3D" displays. The price you pay for the equipment (LCD monitor + IR transmitter and glasses + graphics cards capable of running games in 3D mode) is simply not worth what you're getting.

    The only thing that 3D gaming has done for the PC gaming community is that it's proved that there IS a need for higher refresh rates on our LCD monitors.

    Stop giving us 1920x1080 LCD screens stuck at 60Hz and START giving us some 2560x1200 @ 120Hz LCD monitors!!!

    As far as I know, at last year's CES, Samsung stated that they have identified the need for larger PC monitors (larger than 24") and have also realised that they need to provide higher resolutions. I'm STILL waiting for a 27" or 30" Samsung LCD monitor capable of providing a resolution higher than 1920x1200.
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    Screw 3D - I want the Matrix.

    Just without the dying when you get killed bit. That would suck.

    In all honesty though - I think 3D is a fad that needs to pass really quickly. 3D won't save a game, or immerse you any more, if the story, application and execution is crap.

    As far as big screens go, not a huge fan there either ... I'm not sure whether I'll ever go bigger than 21". I played on a mate's 24" once, and it gave me a headache. Anything bigger than that is just asking for whiplash and a set of binoculars to see what's going on at the far edge of the screen.

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    Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display, ones i'm talking about

    like this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pr⊕phet View Post
    Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display, ones i'm talking about

    like this

    THAT looks awesome. Someone tell me what that's like, please?

    Or like, Dragon Age/DND style games where it reads your MIND.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shamrock View Post
    THAT looks awesome. Someone tell me what that's like, please?

    Or like, Dragon Age/DND style games where it reads your MIND.
    i've only played heretic on it and it was really awesome. as you looked your pov went in the direction of you turning your head and you used the puc in your hand to go forward by tilting it. buttons on the puc obviously for shooting.

    they are quite expensive , this was years ago....
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    I still say we've come where we need to drop graphical development a little bit and focus on story and gameplay revolutions instead. The gaming world needs a brand new ganre. Wolfenstien 3D brought us the FPS, and that was 22 years ago, when is the next TRUE revolution coming?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raven Gold View Post
    I still say we've come where we need to drop graphical development a little bit and focus on story and gameplay revolutions instead. The gaming world needs a brand new ganre. Wolfenstien 3D brought us the FPS, and that was 22 years ago, when is the next TRUE revolution coming?
    lol, i can't but help to agree. i think the last milestone was half life 2 and that was it. for us coming from sprites over to polygons, well quake was zomg. after that it just got refined...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pr⊕phet View Post
    Clearly no one used a proper vfx1 here... Lol?
    Haha!
    I used those!!!

    My uncle actually had a complete rig way back then, after he saw it at a tech show at Kyalami.

    Played Heretic for HOURS on that thing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wheunis View Post
    Haha!
    I used those!!!

    My uncle actually had a complete rig way back then, after he saw it at a tech show at Kyalami.

    Played Heretic for HOURS on that thing!
    i've looked up the company for those, but as i've said... they are $$$ really woudn't mind one or two proper vr head sets

    also checked the video eyewear but geez, those aren't cheap either.
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