Blitz Games Studios Debuts True Stereoscopic 3D TV Games on PS3 and Xbox 360
By Stephany on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 AM PST In Game Companies, Game Related Science, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Hardware, Microsoft, Sony
Blitz Games Studios achieves a world-first with the public unveiling of its ground breaking, proprietary technology showing true stereoscopic 3D games running on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the 3D Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles.
Andrew Oliver, co-founder and CTO of Blitz Games Studios, is the only game developer to be talking at the summit alongside movie industry executives from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dolby Laboratories and Real-D.
Blitz Games Studios’ in-house technology demonstrates that current generation consoles can replicate the full HD 3D experience seen in 3D movie theaters with the 3D images ‘popping’ out of 3DTV screens and into living rooms for the first time.
Andrew Oliver, CTO of Blitz Games Studios said:
“This is an incredibly exciting and huge step forward for videogames. Our BlitzTech technology will prove beyond all doubt that we are already doing what some industry experts have said is impossible on today’s game consoles. Our highly tuned engine is capable of producing real-time interactive graphics that are close to offline rendered CG movie quality.
Many TV manufacturers are already selling sets capable of displaying 3D imagery and we envisage that these sets will rapidly gain popularity as content in the form of movies and games becomes available. Our technology allows for our games to run in both 2D and 3D in one version – by simply flicking a ’switch’ between them. It really has to be seen to be believed.”
Oliver states that games are already arguably more immersive than films, but when created in true 3D will be even more immersive. However, he admits that the games industry still needs to understand design issues and learn lessons from Hollywood studios which are now producing 3D movies in volume for release in 2009 onwards.
I guess this means that the possibility of seeing the womanizing antics of Kratos up close and personal in the near future is not so far fetched. Or imagine, if you will, a rallyracer in DiRT coming out of the screen as if to run you over. Sounds like loads of fun.
(Thanks Kezins)
Meh… It’s nice and all but they make it sound like they just came up with this. I have a set of edimensional 3d glasses that I really love. I used to play bf2 with them and it was frigin awesome. Unfortunately I don’t get to use them anymore because windows vista does not support the drivers. Being that most all monitors are LCD now for gaming, the polarization on the glasses makes it impossible to see anything on the screen. If you were to disassemble them and turn the LCD’s sideways, they would work again but like I said, no one has drivers for them.