While there's a lot of talk about 3D stereoscopic technology at CES this week, Microsoft doesn't appear to be too concerned with getting gamers ready for 3D. Sony is naturally pushing the 3D tech because the company has its own line of 3D Bravia televisions and the Blu-ray format recently finalized the 3D specification. Microsoft's Xbox Director of Product Management, Aaron Greenberg, doesn't think any of this will make a difference in the living room for quite some time.
"I think there's a lot of questions, to be honest. 3D is great in the theater, but for the living room? I think we're a long ways away from that," he told Destructoid. "In the theater there's nothing between you and the experience, but as you have other people in the room and other people walking by, well, it's not the same experience."
Greenberg also pointed to the obvious annoyances like required sitting distances and the need for glasses, but ultimately conceded, "If the consumers want it? Fine."
As usual with technology, the 3D setups will be adopted by the hardcore with more disposable income, but in terms of widespread adoption and 3D having a significant impact on the game industry, we'd have to agree with Greenberg. That's just not going to happen in 2010.
5 Comments
January 8, 2010
Of course he does...
Greenberg and Destructoid hmmm...
So there are more people walking by in my living room than the theater? LOL okay dude, whatever you say.
January 8, 2010
I seriously don't want to wear special glasses while I'm playing video games. I'd have to wear them over my regular glasses, which would make me look like Dwayne Wayne from "A Different World".
January 8, 2010
Speaking of. Wheres season 2?
January 8, 2010
THE 1 2 P, totally agree about the glasses. I wear glasses already too, and when I've gone to 3D movies like Avatar, I usually end up fidgeting with the RealD glasses about an hour in because it starts to get uncomfortable.
January 10, 2010
Yeah, I seriously don't see this being mainstream in homes with the glasses requirement. People might put up with it to seem something high quality like IMAX in a theater, but worrying about peripherals like that is the sort of hassle that most consumers won't want.