EA and Crytek Pushing Games to the Next Dimension
In this generation of gaming, developers and software publishers alike strive to innovate and re-envision the way we experience our favorite form of entertainment. With motion control technology on the horizon, high definition gaming, and even eight channels of audio in the games we play, how much more involved with a television can consumers get?
At the Consumer Electronic Show this year in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sony Computer Entertainment showed off their latest 3D technology for the PlayStation 3. Now that it’s already confirmed to be headed to the PSP as well, multiplatform developers are jumping on the soon-to-be latest trend in gaming. According to the S-3D Gaming Alliance:
“As a technology demo, Electronic Arts Inc. worked with Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) to give a flawless glimpse of what their upcoming award-winning title, Need For Speed SHIFT, will look like when played with stereoscopic 3D drivers. Other technology demos included Crytek’s CryEngine3 running in S-3D with native support, and a showing of Blitz Games Studios’ Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao, arguably the first console game to support modern stereoscopic 3D technologies. To add to the fun, all demos were presented on a huge RealD projection screen as part of SIGGRAPH’s Computer and Animation Festival.”
The S-3D Gaming Alliance are working with manufactures of television sets and monitors to implement their standards of 3D technology, most likely in an attempt to prevent alienation of consumers with sets that don’t support the 3D. In any case, 2010 will be an interesting year for gamers everywhere with the new technology dropping.
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10 Responses to “EA and Crytek Pushing Games to the Next Dimension”
Nice,but we are gonna be broke.
@HaMmOdY
lol. I’m afraid to find out how much the entry price will be for this kind of tech.
BTW, nice article, Kishen.
This new Crysis 2 game needs to come out already.
sweet ass perspective art. i love that shit.
@Steven Garcia
Why thank you.
But yeah I have a Vizio and two XBR’s and I don’t think any of them are compatible with this 3D tech soo yeah, I know I will be broke….
Man, if they expect me to spend more than $500 for my HDTV and $400 for my PS3, and $60 per game, they’re dreaming.
I still think this is just a gimmick, and won’t be more than a novelty this generation
@ Jaxx377 – I think it depends on just how long this generation sticks around. I think it will definitely just be a gimmick when it first comes out, like all the 3D movies so far have just been animated movies and they only have about one scene that really utilizes the tech. and has something fly out towards you. I think now we’re finally starting to see some other movies coming out in 3D, there is one horror flick that I know of right now, so it will take a little time when they start 3D on video games. But I think the tech. is definitely there to fully implement it this generation, it just depends on how quickly developers, and consumers, latch onto it.
Cool article Kishen!
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