Interesting way to use 3D technology for things over than “image quality.” I’ve always disliked split-screen gaming for the simple fact that the screen real estate feels too small for comfort.
Unfortunately it looks like this implementation still has the same division of pixels between the two players – it’ll just look blurry instead of having a squished part of the screen allocated to each player.
The set uses a 3D panel to drive two images, so two players can play the same game head-to-head. Like 3D gaming, the software needs to support the functionality; thankfully, if the game already supports stereoscopic 3D, it only needs a “small interlace tweak” to support head-to-head gaming.
It works like this: Instead of rendering two unique 540p images to create a single “1080p” 3D image, it renders two distinct gameplay streams and uses specially keyed glasses (ours were marked “L” and “R”) to isolate each player’s display.
Read: Vizio ‘Versus’ offers two-player head-to-head gaming on one screen (video inside!) | Joystiq.
