GDC: Blitz Shows 1080p120 3D GamePublished by: wes213 on Friday, March 27, 2009
Tagged: Gaming, Xbox 360,
Little update here on the 3D video game front and it seems to really be turning heads in the gaming market, the guys at Blitz seem to be very hopeful of the gamers ability to adopt new technology early and force the industry to adapt to it.
VG247 reports: “Blitz has created the first console software solution for rendering games for 3D TVs,” Blitz’s Philip Oliver told us at GDC yesterday.
It’s another gimmick, right? Oliver is convinced not. So is the British journalist that sent us frantic MSN messages past midnight last week after seeing the tech demoed at the developer’s UK offices.
“Pat, no shit,” he said. “This is the most exciting thing I’ve seen in games for years. I can’t believe it.”
Word for word. He’d been shown a game running at 1080p and 120 frames a second, 60 frames for each eye. Steph saw it in San Francisco yesterday, and all you can hear on the recording in response is a stunned, “Wow.”
When Steph mailed last night, she said, “That 3D game was VERY impressive, by the way.”
And before you start, yes, we’re aware that Blitz is sponsoring the site for GDC. And no, that doesn’t mean we’re lying..
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