3D virtual Pinball?

3d

There are two Nintendo 3DS titles out. Other than that, I have not seen anything. Been thinking a while about what could be done with 3D...hopefully someone will make something.
 
have you seen visual pinball? future pinball? its like mame but pinball machines, i currently have a gutted gottlieb cabinet, with a 37" lcd for playfeild, 24" for backglass, and 15.6 for the DMD display... from 10 ft away these look like a real pinball..

i got a long way to go on mine...

hyperpin's forums is full of builds, people use industrial relays to simulate the flipper 'feel', they have the tilt bob hooked up, there's nudge boards, analog ball launchers, all kinds of goodies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ILihnUCMc
 
have you seen visual pinball? future pinball? its like mame but pinball machines, i currently have a gutted gottlieb cabinet, with a 37" lcd for playfeild, 24" for backglass, and 15.6 for the DMD display... from 10 ft away these look like a real pinball..

i got a long way to go on mine...

hyperpin's forums is full of builds, people use industrial relays to simulate the flipper 'feel', they have the tilt bob hooked up, there's nudge boards, analog ball launchers, all kinds of goodies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ILihnUCMc

Yeah, thats what I mean, visual pinball...Wondering if they are doing these in 3D yet...
 
Hardy har.

I've got eight of them.

It's the other 100 I want that won't fit in the gameroom that are posing the issue!

I was just messing with ya!! Im sure someone must be working on it, it seems to be the bridge in the gap between vp and real life. The cool thing is, they make a 3d converter now, meaning if your tv isnt 3d you can plug in the converter and it will be as long as you use a 3d device, and a pc I believe is consider a 3d device, it then just depends on the program. So really if someone updates the program to work in 3d mode, you wont need a new tv, in theory.
 
I was just messing with ya!! Im sure someone must be working on it, it seems to be the bridge in the gap between vp and real life. The cool thing is, they make a 3d converter now, meaning if your tv isnt 3d you can plug in the converter and it will be as long as you use a 3d device, and a pc I believe is consider a 3d device, it then just depends on the program. So really if someone updates the program to work in 3d mode, you wont need a new tv, in theory.

As a person who considers himself very informed on stereoscopy, I want to say that whatever this "converter" is, it's probably junk.

Active-shutter 3D relies on high refresh rates in the display (and just having a 120/240hz TV isn't enough; the TV's image processor has to be able to drive a new, discrete, non-interpolated frame of video to the display panel on every refresh) to produce the effect. If you try to do active-shutter 3D with just 60hz, which is what would be happening if you did this with a non 3D-ready TV, you're going to get an stomach-turningly jittery picture, and a poor 3D effect.

This method, as shoddy as it is, has actually been available for home use for a long time. Heck, the Sega Master System had an active-shutter glasses add-on that did this very thing, and as most people who used it will tell you, it was...not so great.

Now, I might be totally wrong about this device you're referring to, as I'm just guessing as to how it probably works, so if you could link me to it, I'd love to check it out. Again, though, if it's what I'm thinking it it, it's not even worth bothering with, unless you want to get an even worse headache than good stereoscopic 3D normally causes. :{
 
http://www.3d-vip.com/

I have an actual 3d tv, but I stumbled upon this before when doing some research, I hear good things, A lot of people use it with there playstation 3

Yeah, it works like I thought it did.

It works in a pinch, but it's definitely inferior to the true higher-refresh rate methods. It'll work, and you'll get a watchable 3D picture, but expect more flicker, ghosting, and crosstalk than you'd get from a native, high-refresh rate system.
 
fair point.

A one color LED migraine inducing display is INDENTICAL to a 3DHD 52" plasma.

Never gave me headaches. And the field of view of the VB is effectively larger than that of a 52" screen at typical viewing distances. (Plasma? Really?)

Galactic Pinball is cool.
 
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