The 3D revolution is coming to all mediums, be it movies, television programming or video games. Not only does it give games a neat visual element, but senior development manager at SCE Worldwide Studios stereoscopic team Simon Benson says that it makes games more approachable as well.
“One interesting thing that we have found is that it tends to make the games more accessible in a lot of cases,” said Benson. “If you’re playing a racing game and you re getting some additional [3D] information you can actually measure distances with your eyes, making it easier to judge breaking. Many of our hardcore gamers are already pretty good at that anyway, so how much of an edge is it going to give them compared to someone who s only just tried a game for the first time? We often see that if you give the controller to someone for the first time they might crash a lot until they get used to the fact that they’ve got to use other cues to perceive distances and breaking and stuff like that, but suddenly you can give a controller to someone to play a stereoscopic driving game and even if they’ve not played it before the cues are more relevant to them because they re used to measuring things with their eyes and they really do feel like it s more familiar to them.”
Source: Edge
