Probably my first NICE experience with s3d was captain EO with our dearly departed MJ
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I had tried the crosseyed stuff I had seen with pictures in the library, but it didn't excite me, but EO did.
So when the eyescream glasses came out I got it to play the first tombraider - whoa loved the s3d - lara croft's s3d body busting out of the monitor - YES! but - OUCH - headache within just a few minutes - it made me get in arguement with my girlfriend and she dumped me (maybe it wasn't the headache, maybe it was she wasn't lara croft - LOL - no it was the headache) - so I shelved it and let it collect dust for years, not gonna use anything that make me hurt! Didn't even bother to educate myself. I had put the seperation way too high to get lots stereo effect and didn't know what I was doing - yes high tech martinlandau really screwed the pooch on that one
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I was space:1899, not 1999! LOL! Years later I wanted to learn about augmented reality stuff cause that Kotu guy was in it and got the z800 and read and learned a lot more, even came here for some game help and at the start felt I was being neglected and shunned by people who had knowledge in thier brain I needed but I couldn't get enough questions answered. Negative experiences only embolden me these days though, not discourage LOL! When you are trying to learn new things, you really want the wise old graybeards to give you some attention and include you, but they are too busy sometimes.
So I spent mega time reading everything I could on the internet (thank you google) and here and other places and upgraded from z800 to iz3d for gaming purposes and finally I had decent gaming solution. It was long process, and I can easily see how people without the time will just pass s3d over. Everyone that is s3d newbie that I talk too I try to make it clear at the start that s3d can make eyes hurt until they adjust and muscles get trained and not too massive seperation, or else they will probably do like I did with eyescream glasses. Let me give recent history, I went to the dragoncon meeting just last week with probably some of the top gamers for WOW and other games that will hugely benefit from s3d. They had folks there from massively.com, and the developers for Global Agenda, sony online entertainment, EA, age of conan etc etc. Also a few nasa people, us air force, nuclear reactor designers, Ga Tech CS students and professors, leet folks you know! Not simpleton high tech redneck
I talked to many many people there, and only 1 person had even really heard of s3d gaming, and I show him iz3d monitor and he say oh yah, that is that new nvidia stuff right? It sorta surprised me cause I also assumed with all the s3d movies that had already been realeased, people would be more familiar with the tech and how it could enhance thier gaming - especially those leet people. You have to be gentle with these people, because they are really smart, and have an ego sometimes and it sometimes is justified, and you insult them if you approach them in antogonistic way that you are cool stereoscoper and they are loser luddite monoscoper - LOL!
So it is like welder and neil say, an education process at this point. Still I think with all the s3d movies, the s3d youtube, s3d gaming and especially our own s3d engadget celebrity Yuri, the religion is going to spread, you just have to love and forgive the masses and convert them through example and patience. Black over at iz3d already asking you Yuri if you interested in coming to the con so you can spread the word to the uninitiated Yuri.
I used to work in large corporate culture. I can't even begin to tell you how people getting off into thier own fiefdoms not only hurt the company, the consumers and customers, but our whole planet from delayed progress because of silly politics and beliefs. Later on they brought in some great people to bust up all that sillyness and I think it really did wonders for the company and consumers, but I have went on to long and even put myself to sleep.
Anyways you have seen me and neil here already get into it over s3d filming of these confernces he attends - so even I am not immune to my own sillyness
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Sometimes we anger people we just really want to help, but we don't see eye to eye (pun intended)