Over the past few years, movies have been starting to bring the beauty of 3D back, making it that 3D was no longer just a silly gimmick that was added to an already awful movie, but an effect that added to the entire movie going experience. In the eighties and nineties, the most you could get out of a 3D movie was at most the brief feeling that a poorly animated shark was coming right for you. The addition of 3D to movies back then really did not add too much to the movie going experience, and it never became part of the mainstream entertainment media.
Today, on the other hand, it has been increasingly common for movies to be released in 3D as well as the normal viewing method. Today film makers have been using 3D filming to not add a gimmick to their movies, but in fact add an entire new range of visual perception, that makes movies look like more than just a series of pictures on a flat screen. A recent and commonly discussed example is the extraordinary success of James Cameron's Avatar, where the addition of 3D made the entire CG world that James Cameron created seem almost real and vivid, as if you as the audience were actually a part of that world.
Movies are not the only entertainment media that is now starting to get their hands onto 3D graphics and filming. Nintendo Entertainment recently unveiled their newest project in advancing video gaming technology, the Nintendo 3DS. This hand-held system of theirs is being claimed to have the ability of fully displaying three-dimensional graphics to a player, without the use of glasses. This has caused an uproar of excitement in not only the gaming world, but the technology world as well, since consumers for years have always complained about needing 3D glasses in order to experience 3D.
It does not stop there even, since when the 3DS was revealed, they announced that not only could the device display 3D graphics, the device came with two camera lenses on the front that could capture 3D images and then display them. This caused many game designers and CEO's of famous companies to become excited and filled with a plethora of ideas on how this could be used to influence and change future technology
It cannot be denied that the success of technology like this could easily change the way we view things today. Ubisoft, a popular game developer, has stated that they believe that within 3 years, it is quite likely that every household has a television with the capability to display 3D images. If this prediction is correct, it is possible that modern technology could seem like something from a science fiction piece. If entertainment in the third dimension becomes the next technological norm, than one can only imagine what possibilities that gives technology even further in the future.
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