At the moment, you can get the early bird discount which gets you the monitor and the lifetime software for 399.
For realtime 3D conversion you need a 3000 series GPU or a certain type of Mac
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owl3d/owl3d-shift-the-glasses-free-3d-portal-for-your-pc
What? Topic reads like you're having a stroke
Do not buy products that don't exist.
It exists. It's powered by a software that I've been using for years, that has been around for years. The hardware exists and will be shipping as early as April for some, and shipping in June for the rest.
It's not some "proof of concept". They've already built the thing. This kickstarter is just the launch.
The main thing the monitor does it make it so to view 3D you don't have to throw on a VR headset everytime. You can just glance down and immediately see 3D.
>it exists you just can't have it until after the standard credit card dispute time limit is up and you have to pre-order it now on scamstarter due to fomo.
Exit. Be gone. Perish.
I've wasted way too much money on 3D Vision and VR in the 2010s, so I'm not touching that shit until everyone and their grandma has one.
Yea, I'm never touching that stuff with a ten foot pole again.
I got some 3D shutter glasses a couple of decades back.The company stopped supporting the thing after a year or so and it became a brick. I briefly looked at recent VR headsets and immediately ran into the same issue: companies stop supporting their headsets after a year or two and you're shit out of luck.
3D shutter glasses, 3D TVs/consoles, VR, etc. All that stuff never takes off and companies quickly stop supporting their products.
Here's a demonstration of the monitor captured with 3D camera (apple vision pro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcYMoEtV8I
I had a 3D monitor years ago and the only game that supported it was Lord of the Rings. Glasses or not, I wasn't impressed.
That said, the glasses caused major headaches. It felt like being on the cusp of a seizure.
This one is realtime conversion. Anything can be 3D. Any movie, game, photo, website, etc.
Plus native 3D games, if you use Reshade with the 3D plugin.
Other 3D games are certain PS3 titles on RPCS3, 3DS library via the 3DS emulator, and Dolphin which supports 3D support for games.
For anything else you can use the realtime 3D conversion, which converts everything on the fly to 3D.
I'm not part of the kickstarter, but my youtube page has used this software to convert stuff to 3D. That's why I'm interested in it. Getting the monitor because currently, putting on a VR helmet everytime I want to see something converted to 3D is a hassle.
I imagine you haven't tried it. Just like AI can create images, it's relying on AI to detect depth.
It's not perfect, but just like how it was always "impossible to do that CSI thing of zoom in and enhance", and yet it kind of is possible now with things like Topaz AI.
Similar with 3D AI stuff.
Yes, you're right that Topaz AI is guessing when it upscales, but it guesses well enough that it feels like the science fiction bullcrap that was CSI "zoom and enhance".
The 3D depth detection is guessing and it can guess wrong, but it guesses right well enough that it serves it's purpose of feeling like a 3D movie.
There's some badly converted 3D movies where they barely did the bare minimum to slap a 3D label on it.
Owl3D can sometimes look better 3D than some studio 3D conversions.
It doesn't match crafted well done 3D, not by a long shot, but it's still good.
I'll put it like this. There was a fake 3D that was pretty terrible in the early days of VR that essentially made the left half of the image lag one frame behind the right image, giving the a poor facsimile of 3D sort of like how cherry candy tastes like cough syrup instead of like cherry.
Well if that old version of achieving a 3D effect was a 2 out of 10 on the scale. And a incredibly artfully crafted human done 3D movie is a 10 out of 10 on the scale, I'd say that Owl3D lands at a 6.5 out of 10 on the scale. It's not bad at all. It won't beat a good 3D native shot or a well crafted 3D conversion, but for being able to view anything in 3D at all times, it's sufficient.
Yes it's not been adopted because of lack of content, but this doesn't have lack of content. It has the ability to display native 3D, but also converts in real time anything you put on the screen. A youtube video, a movie, video game, gets converted in real time. So that solves the lack of content issue.
The other diffference is because of eye tracking you don't need that "sweet spot" that other 3D monitors need before that ghosting shows up. The eyetracking makes the 3D track wherever you're looking.
how does it direct a different image to each eye?
I imagine it's like 3ds technology
eye tracking + special display technology.
It's not the first or only glasses free 3D display. There's even a screen you can apply to Iphones that turns the Iphone display into glasses free 3D.
I don't know the how of it, or how it works, but Samsung has their own glasses free monitor as well, and other brands are jumping on board.
The difference here is the 3D conversion is better because it's powered by software on your computer. Software that requires a 3000 series GPU or higher.