What if: City of Heroes was in 3D.

Count me as one who appreciated the posting...that's very cool! I haven't done the crosseyed thing in years, so it took a little practice to try it, but then all the images worked as I found the 'third' image between the two.

I'm unfamiliar with the process of generating them, though...does it simply involve two of the same images or does each image have to be slightly shifted either way to generate the effect?

Tai

I though it looked really cool. I guess having depth is a little too much for most people. I love the idea of this game someday having a true 3-D option. Just another way to really get drawn into the world.

I can see it happening, and probably not that far off. I think the tech will improve some by the time it happens, though.

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Just to show I'm not a complete dick, I went back to risk another day's worth of headache and tried this thing again. I still can't see it. This time, though, I know why. I can't cross my eyes. Or rather, I can't cross my eyes without pretending I'm looking at something right in front of my face. Thing is, if I do that, my eyes focus to look at something an inch in front of my face, so I don't see the screen. I can kind of comprehend that there are two pictures and they're melding, but as soon as I try to look at the pictures, i.e. focus on the screen so the image isn't all blurry and unrecognisable, my eyes uncross because I still have pretty good depth perception.

It is physically impossible for me to look at something one distance yet focus on something another distance. I CAN un-focus my eyes in general, but that's not by trying to focus on anything in particular. It's just an instinct I get when my eyes tire and can't really focus on anything, which is what they're doing on me right now after straining them AGAIN. I think I'll star at some blurry text for a while and rest up. I just hope I don't make any spelling mistake typing without being able to read what it is I'm actually putting down.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Only if there is an option to turn it off. Or better yet an opt in option. Not because I wouldn't use it. In fact I would use it and love it. But instead so I don't have to hear all the whining in broadcast and over various channels about how horrible it is and how it gave somebody a migraine headache that lasted for 3 months.

Sorry but I just happen to hate 3d detractors. Not those who just don't like it but those who want motion picture and game companies to completely stop attempting to refine and use it. If you don't want to see something in 3d then don't see it in 3d. If we were to follow the thought processes of some of these people 3d would be banned. Of course if we are going to do that then color should be banned because color blind people can't enjoy it as much as good crisp black and white footage. Or better yet ban visual mediums all together since blind people will enjoy movies much more if they are just audio dramas. We can still call them movies though because they move you emotionally.

And before somebody jumps on this post due to their own inability to decipher what I am saying. No I am not saying that eliminating 3d will lead to eliminating all visual media. I am saying that your argument that 3d is worthless and shouldn't be pursued is the same as an argument by a blind person that visuals are worthless and shouldn't be pursued. Just because you can't get enjoyment out of it doesn't mean others shouldn't.

And for Samuel. Are you able to use viewmasters normally? They are using the exact same method that the above pictures do only they present the images separately to each eye. I've always been able to see the stereoscopic images like in this thread just as easily and comfortably as with a viewmaster. I suspect you have the type of vision where one eye is strongly dominant. If the two views don't conflict then both eyes will focus fine. However if they do conflict as in the images caused by red/green or alternate polarization or indeed the crossed eyes to see the above 3d (although the central image focus is the same everything in the background is different.) then the dominant eye takes over and the secondary eye loses focus causing 3d to become nothing more than 2d with a blurring that sort of simulates 3d. It's the second eye trying to regain focus as you concentrate on the 3d that causes the eye strain. If this is the case and you can use viewmasters fine then a headset that presented separate images to each eye should work fine for you. Unfortunately nobody uses that method yet except some primitive vr demo concepts.

As long as it doesn't take time/resources/people away from other things and is optional, fine.

Thanks for giving us something to pass the time!

These were really hard to do! I finally got them all, but jeez usually I am very good at magic eye pictures and these were much tougher to see properly.