Trainz in 3D - just wish I could share it with you!

[sterrett]

I wanted to buy a new monitor I had a 20 in monitor and I didn't want to reduce the desk space too much, even though everyone was telling me to go for a 27 in screen! When you start shopping around, you find that there are plenty of offers on the TV market, and that most TV's have a 5ms refresh rate, the same as most monitors recommended for gameplay. There are a few with 8ms refresh and higher (with correspondingly high prices!)

However, what took my eye was an LG DM2352D "3D Cinema" TV (23 inch) at a very good price and certainly competitive with most 23 in "middle-of-the-road" monitors.

I have experimented with 3D in the past, as LCD screens can easily produce good Anaglyph 3D images using the right software, but found it tolerable in games for only about 20 minutes or so. I found my eyes were getting tired and, if I persisted, a headache would develop.

This LG TV is marvellous. A button on the remote control transforms the images into 3D (it's not "Anaglyph" as clear glasses are used) and I can play Trainz or Train Simulator 2013 all night long if I want!

 

[captainkman]

I'll hop on the next flight to the UK. You can pick me up at Heathrow airport and take me back to your place to show me your 3D setup.

 

[sterrett]

As I work at Heathrow, it wouldn't be difficult to pick you up - especially after a night shift when the "Big Boomers" from Oz usually arrive! Trainz in 3D is wonderful, if you like that sort of thing, so is trawling through my old photographs! I have to say, though, I have an HTC 3D EVO phone and my friends and colleagues either go "Wow!" when they see what it's capable of displaying, or "it's making my eyes go funny!"

I have always been a 3D nutcase though - right back from when I had a "Viewmaster" as a child!

and I used to love sitting on my grandmother's "Stereoscope!"

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Neither was a patch on what is available today, though!

Oh, and did I mention one other amazing feature - two people can play a game sitting together using different glasses which offset the image at the right angle so you can both enjoy the 3D image together without the distortion caused by parallax.

 

[VinnyBarb]

I use a 38" 3D LED LCT TV as a monitor which has the feature among others to switch anything shown on it to 3D mode. Most good 3D TVs have such feature but not all. This is not like a 3D one can see playing from a Bluray 3D DVD, where objects seem to fly from the screen towards the viewer, it is rather like sitting in a room with a glass window (the TV screen) and seeing everything behind it in 3D. After a while the novelty wears off, especial when one needs to use the polarized 3D glasses to view all in 3D.

The reason I use such a big monitor is, it helps immensely with my locomotive creations as one can see lots more details when creating and/or see faults a lot better to rectify them. I would not want to go back using a smaller monitor.

Cheers

VinnyBarb