Avatar Takes Xbox 360 into 3D at Ubisoft

First, just so we’re clear, this has nothing to do with The Last Airbender. Just as the picture indicates.

That said, James Cameron, director of the upcoming 2009 movie Avatar, has revealed that Ubisoft has a 3D version of the forthcoming game up and running on Xbox 360 consoles.

“But there are already plenty of 3D games on Xbox 360!” you might say. But apparently, we’re looking at a more realistic, immersive 3D with a genuine sense of depth here, rather than a 3D image flattened on a TV screen.

The movie will use stereoscopic film projectors in theaters, and it seems he’s eager to bring the experience home. “Stereo production is the next big thing,” he said during a speech as part of Microsoft’s Advance 08 advertising conference. “We are born seeing in three dimensions. Most animals have two eyes and not one. There is a reason I think.”

“You are in the game,” he added. “This is the ultimate immersive media.”

Cameron believes that this will make the games more immersive, suggesting that displays for laptops, phones, and Microsoft’s Zune could go stereoscopic without the need of special glasses.

Ubisoft acquired the rights to Avatar last Summer, when CEO Yves Guillemot suggested that the game would be a “unique interactive experience.”