| Recently, gaming circles and forums have been | | | | However, many would agree, 3D movies are a lot |
| abuzz with news that both HP and Dell are | | | | of fun and that's what gaming is all about. 3D |
| working on 3D gaming laptops. They are said to | | | | does have it's place, I can remember being |
| be working with Wistron, which is a major ODM | | | | wowed by the 3D Terminator show at the Epcot |
| manufacturer with over 30,000 workers | | | | Center in Orlando Florida which had a mixture of |
| world-wide, on producing new 3D gaming rigs. | | | | live action and 3D images. No King Lear, but it |
| According to Nexgadget rumors are swirling about | | | | was entertaining and it was fun. |
| a possible HP gaming laptop using 18.4-inch 3D | | | | Gamers want fun and escapement. I keep |
| panels made by Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) | | | | thinking, would 3D enhance a game like Crysis |
| and a Wistron created 3D laptop solution based | | | | which I have just finished playing - hell yes. Using |
| on NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision technology. | | | | 3D would probably make floating around in that |
| Actually, the movement towards 3D is probably | | | | mountain/alien much more enjoyable and it would |
| the next logical way to go with computer gaming | | | | probably make fighting that creature on the |
| but is it a good idea? Will these new 3D gaming | | | | battleship at the end much more entertaining, |
| laptops be snapped up by hard-core gamers? | | | | even if all they wanted to do was poke my eyes |
| Probably so and here's why. | | | | out. |
| Computer gaming is all about fun and | | | | Hopefully, game designers will go for a little more |
| entertainment, new 3D technologies will only add | | | | sophistication in their application of these newer |
| to the fun factor. Gamers are all looking for the | | | | 3D technologies and combine it with the |
| next big thing when it comes to gaming, can you | | | | increasingly popular HD technologies to produce a |
| say Milo? Sorry wrong storyline but not really, | | | | totally realistic immersion for gamers. Pure escape |
| gaming is becoming more and more interactive, | | | | into a world that looks and feels real is the |
| we want real emotions, we want real interactions | | | | ultimate goal. No doubt, this goal will give many |
| and we want real connections with the characters | | | | concerned parents added worry about the affect |
| in our games. But most of all we want real | | | | these already too realistic violent games are |
| images, the more realistic and life-like, the better | | | | having on young people. Especially worrisome is |
| our gaming experience will be. We want to be | | | | the whole argument that popular "first person |
| totally immersed in the role playing, if 3D can add, | | | | shooter games" desensitizes impressionable teens |
| rather than subtract from this immersion, it will be | | | | and young children into acting out violent behavior |
| a big winner. | | | | in the real world. |
| Many people are turned off by 3D movies, at | | | | This controversial issue aside, if 3D can truly |
| least the ones produced in the fifties, sixties and | | | | enhance our gaming pleasure in these new gaming |
| seventies - to me they just come across as way | | | | laptops, more power to them. Mainly because, in |
| too cheesy, more aimed at our retinal cones than | | | | more ways than one, the game is the medium, |
| our minds or hearts for that matter. Ralphie you'll | | | | message and king. Make the game more |
| poke your eye out. | | | | enjoyable and gamers will be lining up around the |
| Besides, most 3D movies of the past and not so | | | | block to purchase your new contraption. |
| distant past are just plain silly. They can not be | | | | So bring it on, HP and Dell, let's see what you |
| taken seriously, no matter how you view them. | | | | got? |