RealD is a leading provider of 3D technology for cinema and professional applications. Now RealD has announced that Ubisoft and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising have licensed and integrated the company’s propriety stereoscopic RealD Format into James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game.
The RealD Format allows for a direct and seamless connection between an Xbox 360 or a PS3 console and 3D-enabled televisions with integrated RealD technology. This is aimed at providing an unsurpassed 3D gaming experience.
“RealD technology is proven for delivering some of the highest quality 3D images in cinema and professional uses,” said Patrick Naud, Executive Producer on James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, at Ubisoft Montreal. “The RealD Format gives us the advantage of RealD’s decades of 3D experience and immediate compatibility between gaming consoles and 3D TVs.”
“The RealD Format will make James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game one of the first titles to effortlessly work with the numerous lines of RealD 3D-enabled TVs that will soon be on the market,” Joshua Greer, president of RealD stated. “Like the current 3D film revolution, RealD technology is pioneering a new generation of immersive gaming where players can step inside a game and experience a world that literally surrounds them.”
The RealD Format holds the promise of bringing the 3D cinema experience to the world of console gaming. The technology is a visually lossless universal 3D format and it multiplexes a left/right stereoscopic image stream into a single image channel.