Sony Selling 3D with Snake Oil, Claims It Could Make You Better At Games
3D gaming is expensive. No wonder Sony is pushing so hard for 3D: they sell the TV, the console, the glasses; they profit all around! It seems tough to justify all that money just “because it’s cool”, which is why Sony has come up with another reason to shell out the cash: it could make you slightly better!
“If you’re playing a racing game and you’re getting some additional [3D] information you can actually measure distances with your eyes, making it easier to judge breaking,” claims Sony’s Simon Benson. “Many of our hardcore gamers are already pretty good at that anyway, so how much of an edge is it going to give them compared to someone who’s only just tried a game for the first time?”
“We often see that if you give the controller to someone for the first time they might crash a lot until they get used to the fact that they’ve got to use other cues to perceive distances and breaking and stuff like that, but suddenly you can give a controller to someone to play a stereoscopic driving game and even if they’ve not played it before the cues are more relevant to them because they’re used to measuring things with their eyes and they really do feel like it’s more familiar to them.”
Sounds like a load of snake oil to me. New and improved, now with 3D! Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, seizures, and looking like an idiot in those glasses.
