The New Samsung Odyssey Could Fix the Most Annoying Thing About 3D Gaming

If you’re a Samsung Odyssey show fan, you already person plentifulness of costly options for 4K gaming with OLEDs similar the G6 and G8. Samsung present says that 2D screens is aged hat. The institution is soon going to connection consumers a accidental to person their favourite games projected onto their eyeballs successful pseudo 3D. The Korean tech elephantine promises a new Odyssey 3D monitor–one we’ve lone seen successful prototype form—is coming sometime aboriginal this year.

The Odyssey 3D show uses a lenticular lens to nonstop a antithetic representation to each eye. The presumption mapping should set if you thin toward oregon distant from the monitor. The effect is little akin to what you get successful a 3D movie, wherever objects connected the surface are engineered to leap retired toward the screen. Instead, the show offers a much subtle consciousness of extent to characters and objects person to the screen. The interaction connected gameplay isn’t precisely mind-blowing, but it’s unsocial compared to immoderate different show you tin bargain now. 

We saw the Odyssey 3D show popular up at CES earlier this year, but Samsung has a agelong history of pushing pseudo-3D displays. This tin enactment connected TV-sized screens, though users request to enactment straight successful beforehand of the screen, oregon the visuals go wholly distorted. What’s peculiar astir the caller Odyssey show is however it uses eye-tracking stereo cameras built into the monitor’s frame. The show should support that consciousness of extent adjacent erstwhile you determination your head.

Samsung is showing disconnected its consumer-end show astatine Gamescom successful Germany. The marque doesn’t person a terms yet for its monitor, and we don’t person a merchandise date, prevention for a committedness it volition travel aboriginal this year. The show is disposable successful 27-inch and 37-inch sizes. 

Users tin power betwixt the 2D and 3D effects with a switch, akin to the Nintendo 3DS. At this point, if you’re actively switching disconnected the monitor’s header feature, you’d person to wonderment wherefore you spent much wealth connected a 3D-effect show successful the archetypal place. Otherwise, it inactive offers 4K resolutions, regular 1ms effect times, and a 165 Hz refresh rate. It volition enactment AMD FreeSync.

The Odyssey 3D’s basal looks little bladed than the Odyssey G6 oregon G8 and much similar the level Apple Studio Display’s stand, similar the Samsung M80D astute monitor. That’s good if it tin swivel and tilt arsenic acold arsenic the different Odysseys. I’m much acrophobic with the larboard enactment connected offer. It comes with a azygous DisplayPort 1.4 and 2 HDMI slots. 

The Samsung Odyssey G9 is already an costly monitor, and we don’t expect the Odyssey 3D to beryllium immoderate little pricey. Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo

We don’t cognize the price, but considering Odysseys are already costly monitors, we expect this 1 to beryllium adjacent much pricey. Regarding gimmicks, you would astir apt get a much immersive acquisition from a quality curved monitor. Even ultra-expensive curved screens like Alienware’s 27-inch QD-OLED oregon Samsung’s $1,300 49-inch G9 could beryllium amended semipermanent purchases than a level show with a 3D effect.

However, considering however overmuch I enjoyed utilizing a $3,500 Vision Pro to play 30-year-old games from the Nintendo Virtual Boy, possibly if I spent immoderate much clip successful beforehand of it, I’d alteration my tune.