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Sony : 3D Will Make n00bs Better at Games

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If the allure of a heightened gaming experience wasn’t enough, Sony, one of the more profound peddler’s of 3D wares has now said that gaming in 3D will make you a better gamer.

While “core” gamers will experience only slight benefits, newcomers will gain great increases in their gaming prowess – but both will get an edge over standard HDTV users.

"If you’re playing a racing game and you’re getting some additional [3D] information you can actually measure distances with your eyes, making it easier to judge breaking," claims Sony’s Simon Benson. "Many of our hardcore gamers are already pretty good at that anyway, so how much of an edge is it going to give them compared to someone who’s only just tried a game for the first time?

"We often see that if you give the controller to someone for the first time they might crash a lot until they get used to the fact that they’ve got to use other cues to perceive distances and breaking and stuff like that, but suddenly you can give a controller to someone to play a stereoscopic driving game and even if they’ve not played it before the cues are more relevant to them because they’re used to measuring things with their eyes and they really do feel like it’s more familiar to them."

There you go. You’ll be a better gamer if you get a 3D TV. If you can make it past the headaches, distorted vision, blurriness and nausea, of course.

Source : Edge

Last Updated: July 15, 2010

9 Comments

  1. Uberutang

    July 15, 2010 at 13:20

    If you can make it past the headaches, distorted vision, blurriness and nausea, of course.

    That is only for people with eye/brain issues… I lovr 3D stuff!

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  2. Bobby Kotick clarifies

    July 15, 2010 at 14:44

    Actually Uberutang, we don’t know, it’s not as simple as saying people with “eye/brain issues” will have those symptoms, but the shocking part is that studies dealing with this issue are still in their infancy. You might actually find that more people will be prone to epilepsy because of 3D gaming (which seems likely) or not.

    The safest thing to say is… we just don’t know, but it’s pretty clear Sony will be conducting a very public and statistically significant test with you and I as guinea pigs. :biggrin:

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  3. Parker

    July 15, 2010 at 15:50

    Way to totally spin exactly what they were saying Geoff. Not only are they only talking about corners in racing games (not games in general, as the headline suggests) nowhere do they say it will make you better at playing. All he said was you get a slight advantage when it comes to breaking as you can perceive distances easier.

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  4. Nick de Bruyne

    July 15, 2010 at 16:01

    I used to have stereoscopic 3D glasses about 8 years ago (yes the tech is that old) and it was AWESOME for racing games, especially to judge braking distance and close overtaking.

    On that same note, when we were in LA, Gavin and myself tried out some 3D gaming and TV in the Sony store in Beverly Hills, and after 5 mins both of us were feeling very ill and disoriented.

    If the TVs worked the same as the theatres (in other words, not with shutter glasses) then it would be great, but they don’t and the refresh rate is not high enough to not notice the flicker

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  5. Geoffrey Tim

    July 15, 2010 at 16:09

    The source article stated that as but one example – and continues to say that it varies depending on the game.

    Yes, the headline is a little suggestive and I could have used words like “newcomer” and “accessible,” but it’s not really much of a stretch.

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  6. Geoffrey Tim

    July 15, 2010 at 16:12

    Stereoscopic 3D is much older than that even. It actually predates film. The technique was devised around the mid 1800s, and used to give a 3d appearance to photographs.

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  7. Nick de Bruyne

    July 15, 2010 at 16:34

    yeah true, but im talking about the very same technology that is used by Sony now.

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  8. Parker

    July 15, 2010 at 18:00

    Commenting further on the impact of 3D gaming, Benson said: “I think what’s basically going to happen is that anyone who has stereoscopic 3D televisions and, for example, is playing a driving game, I would imagine you’re likely to find that the accessibility level is higher, that people would generally perform better on their first go. But I think at the high end with the hardcore gamers you’ll still see a [3D] advantage there, potentially, but the margins will be far smaller. Again, we don’t really know and it’s something we want to quantify and be a lot clearer on. It’s certainly one thing we are conscious of, and as part of our platform validation cycle we do check these things. We did tests on Wipeout’s online racing modes to make sure that it wasn’t hugely different… It’s not like you’re twice as fast or anything.”

    But that obviously doesn’t fit in with the headline, so let’s leave it out…

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  9. Gavin Mannion

    July 16, 2010 at 02:17

    I honestly fail to see how what you are saying proves anything against the story?

    They said it makes games more accessible which is exactly what Geoff wrote? Where is the issue?

    He used an off the cuff headline but it isn’t misleading or incorrect in any way? They use driving as an example but I would be surprised if 3D platforming games like Tomb Raider aren’t easier when you can actually see the 3D in reality…

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