MML3 in 3D

It's something the console does itself, and their is a shader of sorts that lets you change how 3D it is and you can turn it off if you would like.
That being said only game journalist people have actually seen how the 3D looks because you can't see it through a camera.
Honestly I don't know how it would look unless something was coming at you, I've never seen a movie in 3D, but just imagine the game coming out of the screen border.

I've watched a few movies in 3D, but it's nothing all too special than watching it normally, unless you "enjoy" certain things popping out of the screen.

When it comes to the 3DS, I have no idea what they're going for or planning. All of the rough details and reviews really look kinda like BS to me, but I guess we'll find out ourselves when the time is right.

Capcom seems to have a plot for the storyline, and a few new characters (and a bonne mech for the water ruins), at the very least, but no real pointers for the storyline. But, as for 3D effect, I'm drawing a blank. They could have really made it stand out with Seety...

From what I've heard, the 3D on the 3DS is...'projective', I think the word for it is. Remember earlier this year, when Nintendo was showing off the 3DS? One of the games being displayed was an updated version of Star Fox 64. A journalist, when asked to describe the 3D of the game, described it as being like 'a fish tank coming out of the top screen', with the Arwings and the building/enemies/etc. looking like they're in front of the screen. Hopefully that's clear enough, but if not I'll try to find that article. >_<'

As for what i read, the hardware on 3ds shows two identical images at the same time, but slightly separated, this kind of projection uses a lot of hard processing methods, presumably the hardware has the same (or most) potential than an XBOX360 or PS3, so, they promised to give us high definition images.

Ok let's see if I can explain something. Warning huge wall of text.
TLDR version at the bottom

Stereoscopic 3D is obviously nothing new since most people in this thread seem to have some experience with it. I'm going to debunk some myths that some people have about it that some of you might have.

1- It doesn't look cheap anymore. Anaglyph stereo (red/cyan, yellow/green, blue/magenta, the list really goes on and on) is crappy because you're filtering out a lot of the colors from each eye's view. Ever seen a 3D movie at a theater in the past year or so? It brings me to my next point.

2-Most good stereo is positive parallax. Meaning that the convergence point of the 2 stereo cameras is in front of the subject in 3D space. This means that the image receeds into the screen rather than popping out. Most will not pop out at all, since negative parallax (when the subject is in front of the focus point, also called the zero parallax plane) gives a great deal more eye strain and is generally considered amateur.

3. Sort of a side note, but kind of related to point 1. Since we don't want anaglyph, how are we to view 3D images with the best quality possible? Well, projecting 2 images side to side (left eye image on the right, right eye image on the left) and then crossing your eyes works, but it's impractical for viewing a movie (or game in this instance).

There's 2 common technologies that the majority of stereo is using today
a. Polarization. 2 images are projected onto the screen overlapping. One image has vertical wavelengths and the other has horizontal wavelengths. The glasses then only let through horizontal or vertical wavelengths (dunno which eye is which, I don't have a pair on me atm). There is considerably less ghosting and color issues than with the anaglyph, but it's still not the most desirable way of viewing stereo, since your eyes have to pick pieces out the image to view. Fun thing to do: Get 2 pairs of polarized lenses (This is what ALL theaters use, well all that I've been to anyways and I go to a lot of movies) and put the left eye of one up to the right eye of the other and turn it the right way. You'll see that it blacks out all light coming through it. That's how you know that it's polarized. Pretty cool, I think

b. Active shutter lenses. This is why those glasses that come with 3D tv's are so danged expensive. Say a movie is playing at 30fps (standard for NTSC video). Well with active shutter stereo it's actually playing at 60fps, with each eye's frame being displayed one after the other. so if the number is the frame number that would correspond to the 30FPS frames, and L and R are the left and right eye, here's how it structures itself

1L
1R
2L
2R

Basically it alternates left and right eye images really fast. The glasses only let you see through one eye at a time, so every 1/60th of a second, it blacks out one eye and shows through the other, and keeps switching 60 times a second. You can't see it blacking out (although stare at some certain lights if you're looking through a pair, it's wild) but your right eye will see only the right eye images and the left eye will only see the left eye images. This is considerably the best type of stereo viewing because there is no cross-contamination between eyes , so you get no ghosting or color loss. Unfortunately it's expensive, and requires special equipment to display the images and view them.



Where does the 3DS fit into all of this? It uses a technology referred to as auto-stereoscopy. It's the viewing of 3D images without glasses. I've seen a few examples of this being used before, but unless I haven't seen it yet, it has not been confirmed how the 3DS is going to achieve this aside from rumors. Personally I think it's going to use a system involving curved mirrors. Here is a video of such a thing working. You can't really see it but the character is actually being projected in 3D


Another cool thing I've seen was at SIGGRAPH's emerging technology exhibit this past summer in LA. Sony is developing an autostereoscopic...thingy. It's in the shape of a tube and it actually has 20-some images that it projects depending on which side you're viewing it from (you can see it from 360 degrees around). They actually had a 2 player game of breakout where the paddles spun entirely around the perimeter of the screen . Lemme see if I can find a video. I'll edit it in if I can find it.

Edit: Here it is. It's at 1:08 in this video. The small cylinder display on the left is the screen (viewable from any side, you can't really tell that it's a cylinder from that angle) and the display on the right is every image that it is projecting. Basically 10 people could crowd around it and everyone would be viewing a different angle


Obviously this isn't how the 3ds is going to work but I just thought it was cool so I shared it.

TLDR:
The image isn't gonna pop out, it's going to go into the game, and it's surely not going to look cheap. If anything pops out, it's going to be sparingly because too much popping out causes eye strain.

Hah. On the other side of things, Japanese fans make fun of Yuna for looking like Miku. Though Miku is several years younger, she's infinitely more recognized, except by you, apparently.