I saw a pair of "gaming shades" at Best Buy at $100 a pair. I can't believe people would really buy this stuff. Just hit pause and come back in 15 minutes if its bugging you that bad. O.o

I would totally buy those glasses for My S2H expy gimmick.

Um, so HOW exactly are they supposed to work?

it says it also increases visual accuracy, performance and improves contrast and sharpness... i havent got my own 3ds yet, waiting for more games, so i havent played beyond 20-30 minutes, but if i do get problems with longer sessions and these glasses really do improve the vision of the game 3d in addition to stopping the eye strain, it may be worth it for road trips and such

im skeptical though, and wouldnt get them unless i heard a lot of positive feedback from people who have paid for them

oh, they might have well made the 3d require glasses, beats the whole objective of the 3ds

Yeah, they've been selling various types of "gaming shades" for some time. I've heard they do work (kind of), but apparently colors in games tend to be washed out while wearing them._{And you'd look like a total douche wearing them.}

Lol, I have no problems with the 3D whatsoever, so this would be a total waste of money for me. :3

So much for glasses-less 3D!

Can I wear them with my HD sunglasses?

Look up Gunnar Optiks. These are like cheap knock offs. I wear Gunnars everyday while at work and gaming and I can say for sure they work and actually have some style. I wear the design they call parallax.

I don't get why the 3D hurts some peoples eyes.
I never had a single problem with it and I need to wear normal glasses anyway.

i do have a headache after some time so it may be perfect when i get fatigued so i dont have to turn off 3D. Personally i think its a matter of taste and those glasses arent hideous imo. It would be great if the glasses let you see 3D from different angles so your friend who sits next to you could see whats going on:)

That is interesting. Thanks for bringing this to our attention NL, but now you have to do a review next month!!!

I say, James would look smashing in a pair of those.

First thing I thought of when seeing them was Edgar Davids

3DS fatigue is a load of rubbish!

If I wanted to use glasses to view 3D, I wouldn't have bought a 3DS in the first place.

I got a headache the first time I used the 3D for more than 10 minutes, but haven't had any problems since. My brain just had to get used to the idea of seeing 3D on a screen. My glasses-free 3D is gonna stay glasses free thank you.

Wouldn't this sort of defeat the purpose of "3D without the glasses" Nintendo toted about?

I don't suffer from eye fatigue. Though I will get some for my friend's Araña costume for Halloween this year. <3

EDIT - On second thought, those things are way too small for an Araña costume and, well... I can't subject her to that shade of yellow.

Just turn off the 3D!
Go take a nap!

The 3D doesn't really bother me, and I bet it would be pretty uncomfortable wearing them over my normal glasses.

I really have no problem with the 3D effect at all.

http://www.gamemanx.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hiroshi-yamauchi.jpg

If I can get them aviator style it might be worth it.

Even if it did make your eyes hurt, I can't for the life of me believe someone would wear 3D glasses for something that's not meant to be viewed with them. It defeats the purpose. I would tell someone with eyestrain issues to take breaks and not use 3D at full-blast.

In my experience, I haven't felt any eyestrain since the first day I played the 3DS, and that was mainly because I was tired in general that day anyway.

"which no doubt has plenty of solid scientific fact to back up its claims:" and this is why i love you james I actually read that twic to see if there WERE scientific facts.
@raylax sushi. Dood that's awesome

never.

Well, if they want to make this for free feel free to mail it to me!

I thought the 3DS were glasses free!

LOL @ 18
That just shows how cool these CAN be

@Sushi: MASSIVE!

Don't need them as my eyes don't strain nor do I get headaches from playing my 3DS with 3D mode on...

Will the sweet spot still be there? Or will these fix that?

ok, these look pretty stupid and defeat the whole '3D w/o glasses' thing.

but why is there all the snarkiness/hostility towards those who do have problems with the 3D and/or do have problems with eye strain from playing the 3DS?? just because you haven't had it, doesn't mean others don't. and the 'just turn if off and take a nap' or 'it's all rubbish' are just ridiculous. if you don't have problems, then great. but for those who do, they've invested a lot of $ in a system that they cannot play the way they thought they could.

i'll be you'd be griping too if the shoe were on the other foot.

How ironic lol

Something Nintendo NEEDS to emphasize that they have not, the 3DS Depth Slider is MORE of a FOCUS SLIDER then anything else. Turn down the 3DS FOCUS Slider and keep the 3D on. Everything is fine.

Just don't play too long. If you get a headache, it means you have been staring at a screen for too long. This happens on every screen I have looked at, even T.V.. The 3DS is no worse than my computer.... Or like DarkKirby said, turn down the depth slider.

Hahaha, you don't need glasses for the actual glasses, just the headaches that come from it, kinda ironic but read my earlier post that is right above this.

I got eye strain playing my friend's 3DS. So I was a bit worried when I bought mine but, lo and behold, I didn't have a problem. I just needed to turn the brightness down. (She had is on "Sun" lol)

The glasses are yellow. Blue light has higher energy waveform and thus produces much more eye fatigue than red or green. This is why the instrument panels of military vessels are red (lowest energy visible light), so that they do not destroy the operator's night vision. My advice is to dial down the brightness or turn on some lights in the room so you're not playing in the dark. At home we always keep at least some ambient light on in the TV room whenever we watch movies or play video games. Since my television set has no control for backlight adjustment, I have found that setting the energy saving feature to maximum reduces the overall brightness of the backlight (and consequential eye strain) considerably, without dulling down the contrast.

@Sushi LOL, nice find!

James, this title and tagline seriously made me lol. Well done!

And here I thought the 3DS was being pitched to distance itself from goofy glasses.

Its kinda like bringing out a controller for Kinect! Lol

Those glasses defeat the whole purpose of the 3DS: 3D without glasses! I don't think Nintendo is very fond about this!

"We've all read — and most likely ignored — the many safety warnings that come with the 3DS" who did? I've not read a single one

... I would buy these if... wait, I would never buy these. Not even if they would let me see 3D if I was unable too. (Even though I can)