3D glasses?

Might be a weird question, but I was looking at the 3d options of some laptops and I am curious about some things from those who have used the shutter glasses.

I heard the experience can either be great in short doses or cause headaches and eyestrain.

I wear glasses ( near sighted ) and was curious if anyone else who uses these glasses and how well they work for you?

I was reading that having the 3d built into the display is nice, but you cant adjust the depth on the fly like you can with the little emitter box. Is that an issue for people with the 3d emitter built into the display?

Also whats the general consenus of 3d, I was excited about the possibility of eventually getting a 3d tv and using the blu ray player in the laptop as a 3d player for the tv. Is 3d really something to be wowed about?

 

Personally, I think it's overrated. Also, one of the major complaints about 3D is the fact that the way it's currently implemented, it essentially cuts your framerate in half due to the way it uses alternating frames. In short, if you're getting 60fps output from your graphics card, with 3D on it will "feel" like 30, which is probably part of what causes headaches. It's also why you're supposed to have a 120Hz display to use 3D.

Personally, I'd skip it, or at least go to a Micro Center or something, where they often have it on display for people to try out.

 

Well, for me, I didn't find the experience as good as I expected.

When 3D is active, about 40-50% of the lighting turns dark, which kind of ruins the experience in some cases.

Some people do get extremely sick/dizzy off it, so it's a coin toss. I personally felt like vomiting after 15 minutes, but slowly built tolerance, however you'll have to feel extremely sick many, many times before enjoying it if you're that "type" of person. I have yet to build a full tolerance to 3D.

I don't think we're ready for 3D. Give it a couple years.

I will say that the 120Hz Matte screen (3D) is a spectacular screen, though.

If anyone is going to get 3D, please make sure you have a good return policy on it, because like I said, it IS a coin toss and I don't think everyone has the patience to borderline vomit every night for weeks/months because of building a tolerance (some can't build it at all).