Background...
I've been very slow to get onto the 3d bandwagon having grown up seeing stuff like Jaws 3D and other old 3d movies that looked crap. The first of the new generation of 3D movies I watched was Tron Legacy and the 3D bits in that were very impressive! Also played a friends 3DS which was good, the lack of glasses was amazing and the 3D quality was still impressive for how low res the screen is. So when picking a new laptop I went with a Dell XPS as it had the option of a 120Hz screen. Was a big fan of silky smooth Windows back in the day on a 100Hz CRT, so to finally get that again on a PC was great. But I didn't initially shell out on the €150 3D Glasses still too expensive, but since nVidia released their USB version for €85, though I'd give it a go...
Experience... so far... the Good
So far I've only tried the demo software and Half-Life 2. The demo stuff is simple and shows off the depth really well, there is a setting on just how much 3D you want to see; from a very small amount, to a lot. Found 75% to be the sweet spot for me. So fired up HL2 and started playing it again. It's very impressive to see the characters in 3D. The close up of the G-Man right at the start is freaky since his eyes are sunken in and the nose pops out. Then when starts, seeing people behind fences or in rooms, it was really awesome, also running down corridors looks great, give the real experience of claustrophobia. Having stuff jump out at you is awesome!
The Bad...
To be fair, HL2 was designed before proper 3D glasses support was available... The cross hair can look like it's behind an object your looking at which leads to your eyes focusing at different points in space, now this doesn't happen a lot but it's noticeable. Another which is a bug, some of the sky-boxes (i.e. the edge of map textures) aren't being displayed at the right depth as other object close to them, so the far away textures look closer then some buildings, this can be a bit sore to look at. But on a hole this is a minor irrational not a show stopped.
Prolonged Play...
After playing for an hour had some brain fusing, had the same problem with the 3DS for the first couple of days and it went away. Can play the 3DS for straight without any problems, longest session 6 hours. Only had the 3D PC setup for a day, so am hoping it goes away also.
Anyone else out there playing games on the PC in 3D?? Any games you'd recommend that are impressive in 3D. Or monitors as I'm now planing a new 3D gaming rig... nVidia have won me back...