New Sony 3D Glasses

Sony has been dabbling with its claimed 3D eyewitness abstraction for some time but things are about to get serious.

The Sony HMZ-T3W is an adapted adaptation of what we'd already apparent at antecedent IFAs and the home ball angle is assuredly hitting the bazaar in November, accession in the UK for ВЈ1,300 (about $2030, AU$2230 although no US absolution has been set).

As big admirers of the Oculus Rift, we were absorbed to see what Sony's market-ready adaptation of its angle had in abundance this time around.

In agreement of what's new, the HMD now has all-important wirelessHD support, bigger affectation and bigger acclimation straps, the third of which is in fact appealing important, as we we'll explain.

Wireless happens acknowledgment to a ascendancy box that connects your source, such as HDMI, and transmits it over to the goggles. Sony has advised the HMZ-T3W to affix to your PC, adaptable phone, book or bold console, all fed through a wireless adapter that communicates with the headset.

Smartphone abutment is new - do this and you'll acquisition yourself examination a actual aggrandized adaptation of your buzz awning in absolute time. It's absorbing that Sony is blame this for gaming too as contempo rumours advance that a committed PS4 adaptation is on the horizon.

So how best to call the experience? It's appealing abundant the agnate of sitting in your own clandestine cinema. The eyewitness replicates a 750-inch TV awning from 20m abroad - a 1280x720 OLED affectation for anniversary eye - that can play in either 2D or 3D.

However clashing the Oculus, the affectation is fixed. Move your arch about and the big awning will chase your eyeline acceptation you can watch with your arch at any angle.

On the base of the goggles are two sliders for optical adjustment, a four-way card button and two aggregate buttons. The angle aswell comes arranged with a brace of MDR-XB90 headphones that actualize 7.1 beleaguer sound.

It's all actual air-conditioned in approach and it's difficult not to be a little afflicted if you put the HMD on for the aboriginal time. But again the acrid realities activate to set in.

The aboriginal capital affair with the HMZ is that there's still a 'sweet spot' demand. Have the angle too top or low on your face and you'll get some annoying becloud in your vision.

This is why the adjustable straps are so important as you'll charge to dabble to acquisition that absolute point and accumulate it in place. We begin the angle had a addiction of boring bottomward down, abnormally if affective the arch around, which meant we had to accumulate readjusting it.

The next botheration is the accessible amplitude beneath the eyeline that proves to be decidedly distracting. While we can accept that the gap is there so you can see your phone, abrasion or keyboard (depending on what you're application the angle for) it annoyingly takes some of the captivation away.

The final botheration is the amount - $1,300 puts this actual abundant in the affluence area and we candidly can't see abounding humans battery out for one. As a advertise artefact for what Sony ability be about to bare for the PS4, it's promising. It just doesn't feel accessible yet.