Recommendations depend on your priorities and your hardware. We will make recommendations based 3D quality and cost.

Recommendation by 3D Quality

1. 3D Monitor - The absolute best experience. $550-$800.
2. Shutter glasses - $70 for glasses. Desktop users already have a monitor. Use what you have. Gamers use your CRT! For laptop users, get something cheap with a fast response time for around $100.
3. HMD - This is great for laptop users and the quality is better than LCD with shutter glasses. $300-400

Recommendation by Cost

1. Anaglyph glasses - $0.20 for paper glasses. $5 for plastic glasses or clip-ons. Lowest quality but cheapest price point.
2. Shutter glasses - $70 for glasses. Desktop users already have a monitor. Use what you have. Gamers use your CRT! For laptop users, get something cheap with a fast response time for around $100.
3. HMD - This is great for laptop users and the quality is better than LCD with shutter glasses. $300-400
4. 3D Monitor - The absolute best experience. $550-$800.

Recommendation for Laptops

1. HMD - This is great for laptop users and the quality is better than LCD with shutter glasses. $300-400
2. 3D Monitor - The absolute best experience. $550-$800.
3. Anaglyph glasses - $0.20 for paper glasses. $5 for plastic glasses or clip-ons. Lowest quality but cheapest price point.
4. Shutter glasses - $70 for glasses. For laptop users, get something cheap with a fast response time for around $100.

Description of Options

3D Monitor

Zalman Trimon offers an incredible experience. It is perfect, ghost free, full-color 3D. $550-$800.

CRT Monitor with shutter glasses

CRT monitors are still the choice of gamers because the refresh rate is so high. Set your refresh rate as high as possible and use shutter glasses to get perfect 3D. $70 for glasses. CRT monitors are not easy to find.

LCD Monitor with shutter glasses

LCD monitors work with shutter glasses, but are not nearly as effective as CRT. Generally, the highest LCD monitor refresh rate is 75Hz, which causes some blinking with shutter glasses. Also, the 3D effect tends to work in the top 1/3 or bottom 1/3 of the screen, but not the middle 1/3. The middle has ghosting for some reason. The price point for this setup is very reasonable. $70 for the glasses. $100-200 for an LCD monitor, depending on size.

Head mounted display

Quality is excellent with HMDs. They are great for laptop users because of the size and portability. The drawback to HMD is that you cannot "wiggle" your head back and forth to really experience the 3D effect. With any monitor setup (3D or shutter glasses), shifting position augments the 3D effect. $400.

Anaglyph glasses

Anaglyphs are the oldest and simplest technology. These colored glasses are very common. You may even have some sitting around from special TV or Movie events. For laptop users, this is the only option for 3D without using external hardware of some kind. Note that some LCD screens have ghosting with anaglyphs. The technical reason is that the red/green/blue pixels on the LCD is not perfect. You can tweak your display settings to offset the ghosting.