Gran Turismo 5 3D demo showcased

For gaming fans around the world this isn’t the news you really want to hear – but non the less you might be happy or rather excited to know that Gran Turismo 5 has been showcased as a 3D demo at a Japanese coffee shop (which was turned into a gamers heaven with gaming sets ups) which is to show off Sony’s 3D TV technology: or in other words Sony’s soon to be top notch Bravia 3D TV’s.

Gaming website 1up was at an event in Tokyo during may and got to sample GT5 in 3D first hand, on this they said;

“Gran Turismo 5 didn’t look markedly better or worse in 3D when compared to its showing at TGS last year. However, it suffered from the “pop-up book look” that many 3D images do–the game looked as if it was composed of several 2D images layered on top of each other. Movies that are filmed in 2D and brought to 3D via CGI tend to suffer from the same problem (think Clash of the Titans or Alice in Wonderland.)

Though 3D images can be hard to watch for a long period of time, GT5 was relatively easy to look at. This is thanks in large part to the game not using any strong depth of field effects. [...] All objects in GT5, regardless of location, are rendered without any post-processing blur, so no matter where we looked on the screen, we could focus easily.”

As of yet there has been no official release date for the much anticipated Gran Turismo 5, with gamers becoming increasingly unsettled.

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