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Virtual Reality Glasses

3D TV has arrived in Australian shops and is now readily available through some of our National Electrical stores. If you want to watch a 3D TV then you will have to wear special glasses to bring the animations to life. Will the 3D TV be as growth intensive as the advent of coloured TV? I remember how colour TV changed our viewing habits and intensified our enjoyment of watching sporting events.

I saw my first colour TV when we were on holidays in January 1975. I remember this well because it was when I first got an inkling that there might actually be a purpose to the game of Cricket. Up until this point I used to watch it with my “X” who was a mad cricket follower but truth to tell, I never really enjoyed the game. I was always waiting and watching for a batter to get out and I wasn’t overly caring whose side it was; just as long as someone got out. Obviously I would prefer it to be a batter from the side playing Australia, but it was about the only point to the game that I could see. In short, it was BORING.

Then in colour we got to see that the cricket ball was red, the players in those days all wore white and differentiated their teams by the colour of the caps they wore. Australians have always worn a “baggy green” cap. Colour added vibrancy and at least we got to see that Seagulls all around the world were white too. Colour TV added vibrancy to the pictures being beamed into our lounge rooms.

3D TV and the right virtual reality glasses will now add dimensions to our coloured pictures that 2D just isn’t capable of doing. When watching sporting events, I can now see a lot of people sitting in their lounge rooms ‘ducking’ as the ball whizzes over their heads. It will add such a sense of reality to events being broadcast that I can see a lot of funny family moments in the future.

But I can also see that children’s viewing activities will need to be better supervised than many children’s TV viewing habits currently are now.

If a parent isn’t careful about the show being watched in very graphic detail, and if it was the wrong classification for that age group; then a child could be scared and have nightmares for the rest of their lives. The vividness of 3D will lessen the perception between “real” and ‘make believe’.

This is why it is called virtual reality and the best way to avoid any child from watching inappropriate materials is to lock the 3D glasses away in the poisons cupboard.

3D Television is now in Australia but you will need a special pair of glasses to bring the animations to life. For more opinions on the best 3D glasses go to 3D glasses review and see what the various options available are today