Agreed. The game looks amazing with Nvidia 3DVision. Everything is taken to a higher level of immersiveness when in 3d. The interior environments are especially impressive. The 3d depth just gives it a higher level of "realness" and it even makes the games textures look like a higher resolution than what they are. I sometimes toggle the 3d effect off when in some dungeons or buildings just to see the difference and it is amazing. I can't imagine anyone not wanting to play the game in 3d after experiencing it first hand. Wonderful experience!

I hate to be "that guy" but I really hate 3D, it's just a personal taste issue though. I don't think the effect is as impressive as it's been hyped up to be, and it might sound weird but I just feel more "orientated" playing in "2D".

I have a 3D vision monitor, I didn't buy it for that particular feature though.

These kinds of responses always make me wonder if color television/movies had the same initial reception.

The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the "convergence/focus" issue. A couple of the other issues -- darkness and "smallness" -- are at least theoretically solvable. But the deeper problem is that the audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen -- say it is 80 feet away. This is constant no matter what.

But their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120 feet, and so on, depending on what the illusion is. So 3D films require us to focus at one distance and converge at another. And 600 million years of evolution has never presented this problem before. All living things with eyes have always focussed and converged at the same point.

If we look at the salt shaker on the table, close to us, we focus at six feet and our eyeballs converge (tilt in) at six feet. Imagine the base of a triangle between your eyes and the apex of the triangle resting on the thing you are looking at. But then look out the window and you focus at sixty feet and converge also at sixty feet. That imaginary triangle has now "opened up" so that your lines of sight are almost -- almost -- parallel to each other.

We can do this. 3D films would not work if we couldn't. But it is like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time, difficult. So the "CPU" of our perceptual brain has to work extra hard, which is why after 20 minutes or so many people get headaches. They are doing something that 600 million years of evolution never prepared them for. This is a deep problem, which no amount of technical tweaking can fix. Nothing will fix it short of producing true "holographic" images.

Consequently, the editing of 3D films cannot be as rapid as for 2D films, because of this shifting of convergence: it takes a number of milliseconds for the brain/eye to "get" what the space of each shot is and adjust.

And lastly, the question of immersion. 3D films remind the audience that they are in a certain "perspective" relationship to the image. It is almost a Brechtian trick. Whereas if the film story has really gripped an audience they are "in" the picture in a kind of dreamlike "spaceless" space. So a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever cope with.

I'm not really sure how the effect could be improved, aside from getting rid of the minor ghosting you see in high contrast areas. The shutter glasses send one image to one eye, another image to the other, and the graphics card renders them from two different viewpoints. That's how 3D works, via parallax, even in real life. Some movies have fake 3D that's edited in after the fact, which I'm sure looks gimmicky, but video games never need to do that since all the spacial information is right there in the engine.

Forget what you see in the movie theaters.
Forget what you see on 3D TV's.

I'm talking about stereoscopic 3D for directX based games. Skyrim looks absolutely amazing in 3D. Guys please be open minded and try it out. If you're eyes are sensitive it takes about three weeks for you to adjust so please take it slow. Start the 3D settings very low when you start and only for an hour at a time. Then slowly build up. I have 20/20 vision and I'm over 30.

* You look down from a cliff and actually sense the distance from where you are to the ground. Scary!
* You look up from under a waterfall and see the water coming down! Sweet! It's almost as if you can feel it.
* Incoming projectiles are truly terrifying in a great way! Easier to dodge.
* You can really feel the dragon flying over your head.
* First person interactions with NPC's are far more engaging.

Thanks for letting me share this epic experience.

DirectX Stereoscopic 3D is not a gimmick.....

This is so insanely obviously advertising it's not even funny, pathetic attempt man.

The effect won't be improved until we have technology that just isn't commercially available right now.

3D computer graphics are still essentially 2D on a computer screen, all 3D does is takes the components of that "2D" image and represents them in a pseudo-three dimensional way. Maybe I'm just one of these people mentioned above, and my brain just isn't fooled, but when I have viewed 3D in its current form all I have seen is layers of pseudo-3D objects. It looks like crap too, I am honestly more convinced by 3D games displayed two-dimensionally.