Quote Originally Posted by Hythloday View Post
The Nintendo 3DS is an upcoming portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce "3D effects without the need for any special glasses.
If screens could produce 3D effects without glasses, why have I been wearing stupid glasses my entire life? Thanks for letting the cat out the bag, Nintendo, I'm done with that smurf.


I've considered myself a very anti-Nintendo guy for a fairly long time (around the time I realized how much more fun competitively wrecking real people online was), but wow, I have to admit you have my interest with this one Nintendo.

Here's hoping it's not the like the last adventure into "3D effects without the need for special glasses" (SPOILER).
No, it's a large scale introduction of parallax barrier 3D effects. Basically, the two different images needed for 3D effects are split so that one goes one way, and one goes the other. Each image is thus caught by a different eye. Thus there is a range in which the 3D effects work. Too far to the side, and you won't get the 3D effects.

The problem with parallax barriers were initially the cost, and then the introduction. 3D still isn't huge, and a parallax barrier is an entire new TV, and more costly than one without the 3D system, so introduction has been problematic. Including it into a handheld system was a brilliant idea, and should help people to realize the potential of the system and introduce it as a mainstream viewing system.