3Drawbacks of 3D

$3,000.00-$7,000.00, that is not bad for leading adge tech.

Back in the early 90's my friends were putting out 12,000 to 15,000 dollars on home entertainment centers......poor bastards

I saw my first 3D TV back in '99. Thought they might be public by now. Ask the Military. Ya gotta love these so-called "break throughs". Suppose we have to wait another 10 years until the Military lets us morals have the technology.

I don't think there's much restriction on high-end computer graphics - why bother? Rockwell will probably sell you their latest image generator for $50,000 per channel or so. (A channel renders roughly a typical monitor's worth of data. You need to tile a number of channels to make a wide-angle scene. The more channels, the more resolution and realism.) MetaVR has PC-based software for the low low price of $10,000. This'll get you graphics equal to the moneys-no-object state of the art in 1990.

NVidia sells a pair of VR goggles for a few $hundred. They've been reviewed with PS3 games and deemed quite cool enough.

Now, these are flight simulator (or game) graphics, not nearly as high-fidelity as a movie, but they do knock your socks off when you realize it's rendering in real time and can decide to "go over there."

I hope to be deeply involved in military visualization (again) at some point in the near future. I won't be surprised if the majority of visualization outside of mission training is still 2D. It would be awesome to work on changing that, but I think we're just beginning to appreciate the effort involved.