Topic: 3-D Gaming Is Waiting for Its Avatar

[Rik]

It is for the optician. An average visit costs me around £1200!

[Simon]

  I thought my Raybans were expensive! 

[sam]

It is for the optician. An average visit costs me around £1200!

yikes!

[Rik]

Varifocals
Computer glasses (worth the investment give the hours I sit in front of a monitor)
Sunglasses
Driving glasses
(sometimes) Reading glasses.

I do wonders for Nikon's turnover.

[sam]

separate computer / driving? Is the prescription different?

How do you keep track of all of them? Or do Nikon fit a radio transmitter too? 

[Simon]

 

[Clive]

I'ver not heard of computer glasses either. Surely they are similar to reading glasses? 

[sam]

are they polarizing?

[Sandra]

If they use those polarising glasses like they do at the 3D Imax screens then I cant see the problem. They arent uncomfortable to wear and as it will be a long time before everything is in 3D, as it is for HD now and as it was for colour when that first came out, then a couple of hours an evening would be no problem at all for most people.
I cant see why they would need new TVs or extra equipment if current SD DVD players can do 3D using the red/blue or green glasses then why cant the polarised glasses do the same thing. Its only if they are going for the shutter type of glasses or the no glasses 3D TVs that you should need new equipment. Given the extra cost that would involve I would happily go wit the polarised glasses method 

[sam]

Its not just the DVD - its the emission.

The emission from the screen has to change polarisation - so you can't just add the glasses. I'm pretty sure that the average screen has some degree of polarisation but it should constant over the whole screen. My life is all about polarisation these days... though normally at radio wavelengths.

[Rik]

separate computer / driving? Is the prescription different?

How do you keep track of all of them? Or do Nikon fit a radio transmitter too?  

Driving glasses are just my distance prescription, Sam. They don't suffer from the same peripheral distortion that varifocals do. Computer glasses are set at my eye-to-monitor distance, so the eye is relaxed when reading, it's the same principle as reading glasses, but with a longer focal length, about 1.5 dioptres different.

[Clive]

Thanks for the explanation Rik. 

[sam]

ah that makes sense.

[Rik]

And money for the optical industry. I doesn't help that I like Nikon C-Max lenses, which are about as expensive as you can get.

[Rodders]

Waybans wool.