From the Vault: In 3-D

OT: This makes me wish the Escapist was older, so I could be reading well-written, well thought out articles from 1993 about how RPGs are about to die and adventure games are the future.

MOT (more on topic): When I heard of text based Quake I thought of the Doom roguelike. Aw yeah.

5) 6 Apr 2011 16:12

CrystalShadow

Funny. This mentions seeReal, but fails to mention their prototype holographic displays, which, on paper at least, are way cooler than their autostereoscopic displays.

But... Yeah, we have a long way to go yet.

Although, mentioning ARquake, I suspect you can create your own implementation for a modest budget of $1000-2000 if you make use of a laptop, cheap GPS tranciever, and cheap VR glasses (Vusix comes to mind; They even have AR variants of their glasses, and some models have 6 axis head tracking as well.
Add in a few wii-remotes or similar... Well, cheap it isn't, but the costs are low enough to be managable to anyone that can afford to put together a high end gaming PC.)

6) 6 Apr 2011 16:59

Freechoice

APVarney:
From the Vault: In 3-D

In celebration of our 300th issue, we look back to this article from 2007, which asked, "Will computer games ever truly breach the third dimension?"

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300?

THIS. IS. ~~SPAR~~ THE ESCAPIST!

7) 6 Apr 2011 18:14

misterprickly

I'm suprised that we don't have MORE 3D games.

I love the red/blue (anaglyph) style, It's cheap and effective.